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Dunphy wins vote for 2026 portland city council president w 9 votes including Zimmerman, EPG, Clark, nearly unanimous actual support
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Elana Pirtle-Guiney tears up as she speaks ready to hand over gavel after a testing year
Dunphy wins vote for 2026 portland city council president w 9 votes including Zimmerman, EPG, Clark, nearly unanimous actual support
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Elana Pirtle-Guiney tears up as she speaks ready to hand over gavel after a testing year
72/
BREAKING:
Presumed new city council president Dunphy speaks out against city of pretty pdf’s
BRAVO STANDING OVATION lol
Dan Ryan now lecturing about “the right kind of integrity”
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BREAKING: west side Councilor Olivia Clark former candidate for council president biggest vote getter in 2024 election announces she will trust and support Peacock member councilor Jamie Dunphy for council president
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70/
TKL Vice President of council for 2025 speaks towards EPG gratefully
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Sends dig to Novick
65/
Laughs in city hall
Appears the crisis of this getting decided by Loretta Smith using taxpayer funds to sue the city to get a judge to overrule Robert Taylor to have mayor Wilson name her council president … Has been extinguished
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Dunphy may be the new Portland city council president
From the beginning in planning meetings Dunphy has said he doesn’t care about being a committee chair, he doesn’t need to be a chair to do the work he’s here to do
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Breaking: Kanal offers councilors to have Mondays more in their district
Now we’re talkin’ lol
“Vote for me and we’ll be around each other LESS”
Sounds like Novick is open to all this 😉
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55/
11:30
Kanal - responding and pitching
Says he wants a vote after his comments
My once celebrated live tweeting neural networks getting fatigued
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BREAKING: Dunphy floats model of co-leadership
Around here we get results fast 🤣
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51/
TKL says will stick w Kanal bc of political moment
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Kanal responds to Novick reaching out but not being totally direct
Even for me a little hard to understand all the inside baseball working references they are making
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“It’s very disappointing that this is where we’re at.”
- C. Angelita Morillo on proposal by Councilor Loretta Smith to sue city
Requests explanation from other councilors why they won’t vote for Kanal. Discussion of temperament
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BREAKING: City Attorney says council could adjourn or recess until they get a decision from a judge about City Attorney’s decision in 2025 that the Mayor cannot break a tie of the city council in its vote for city council president
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EPG says there are many reasons to vote for her colleagues
10:23
6-6 vote
Smith 6
Kanal 6
15m recess until 10:39
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31/
10:16
Clark proposal to take up new rules
Vote on each individual candidate (I don’t understand how this would work)
Y: change
N: back to debate
7 votes for new procedure
7 votes would still be needed for new council president
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28/
10:09
C. Olivia Clark
Brings up rank choice voting as way of breaking deadlock
City Attny
Says different procedure can be suggested and adopted
Says Roberts rules generally supports the procedure we’ve been using
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27/
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Zimmerman says EPG represents most experience and that she led fairly. Didn’t get everything he wanted but she navigated turmoil w calmness
Says considering Smith and Novick too
Weird ominous words abt EPG being pres again later
24/
9:59a
Candidate for Pres C. Loretta Smith
“I’m a black woman. I’m a mother. A grandmother”
Thx C Zimmerman for putting her fwd to lead the council
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Says current Pres is LGBT woman who happens to be Jewish - antisemitism claims
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Councilor Koyama Lane
Starts by thanking Pres EPG for opening remarks about incendiary texts
Thx EPG for speaking directly to her
—
Lists reasons for supporting Kanal
*Supports his council office team practice and approach
20/
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Peacock member Dunphy 9:50
Says he slept poorly in advance of this
“I hate this”
“Today’s decision matters”
Expresses gratitude for EPG
“Did it far better than I could have”
“My vote is not against but FOR”
19/
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BREAKING: Morillo says SHE will join Green and Kanal in stepping down from Peacock if it will end this discussion
3 Portland DSA councilors all offer to leave the caucus that 6 council members started in Jan 2025
18/
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Morillo introduces racist language from the texts suggests her colleagues are working w the racists
“We need people to do what is mature right now”
Lectures colleagues that what is mature is voting for Peacocks
17/
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Morillo 9:43
“What I see from him [Kanal] is mature leadership”
Also leans on EPG suggesting she somehow has the responsibility for getting Peacock another vote they want
Peacock can’t win votes so they blame their colleagues 🙄
15/
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Green addresses Novick and comments
Says a lot of people making complaints about Peacock are sending racist, sexist, homophobic texts published yday by Mercury
Mitch also says he’ll step down from Peacock
What a strategic fail
13/
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Kanal introduces himself as candidate again
Presents himself as bringing more strategy
Says he’ll share more info in advance
12/
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Peacock candidate for council president councilor Sameer Kanal from D2 N/NE Portland:
1. a bunch of wonkiness
2. “I don’t want to win bc 7 of us want a brown person as council pres”
[Speaking fast they know this is waste of time]
11/
Novick: “I have great respect for each peacock individually
It’s when you band together as peacock that you get into trouble”
Pretty much perfectly stated lol
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On to peacock’s council president candidate Sameer Kanal
10/
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Novick: “embarrassing to have half the council under investigation for ethics violation”
Continues w his speech
“5 peacocks except Dunphy being represented by [OJRC Attny]
“I agree w Co Clark that now is not the time to vote 4 P”
9/
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Novick: saying hard thing
Wweek texts
Public mtgs law
“I can’t believe you were so stupid to join the peacock in violation of public mtgs law
“Last mo ethics commission voted 7-0 to investigate the peacocks
8/
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EPG: says everyone should put effective governance first.
“Please, let’s get to work”
Novick: “last week I said I have a problem voting for peacock”
Says Morillo accused him of not being willing to vote for person of color
