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Willamette Week Endorses Mike!

May 2, 2008 on 9:46 pm | In News |

Today, Willamette Week announced their endorsement of Mike Delman in the primary election for Multnomah County Commissioner, District 3. The paper’s editors focused on how tough their decision was given a crowded field of candidates and three strong front-runners. Citing Mike’s “proven record in Multnomah County government,” they pointed out that Mike’s experience “would balance [the current commissioners] as an old hand who knows the local players and understands how to work the byzantine county bureaucracy.”

The print version of the endorsement contains one additional bit of information (on page 16) not seen in the online version: “Some [candidates] won our hearts by demonstrating the chops to do the job they seek — we’ve attached a rose to our endorsement of those folks. And others made our hearts skip a beat, which we’ve indicated with a rearing horse, by showing us they’re capable of making real change.” Mike Delman was the only candidate in the District 3 county commissioner’s race to earn a rearing horse.

Willamette Week is an award-winning weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, including a 2005 Pulitzer Prize awarded to one of its reporters for investigative reporting.  You can read the full endorsement here, or pick up a copy of Willamette Week locally.

This endorsement truly complements Mike’s broad group of supporting individuals and organizations, including the Multnomah County Corrections Officers Association, the Oregon Nurses Association, Stand for Children, the Portland Tribune, and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555, former Multnomah County Commissioners Gary Hansen and Sharron Kelley, former Multnomah County Chair Don Clark, former Portland City Commissioners Erik Sten and Mike Lindberg, Steve Rudman (housing advocate), Mike Houck (urban greenspaces advocate), former Republican state representative Gene Saylor, Barbara Rommel (school superintendent), Annette Mattson (school board member), and Fred Sanchez and Alan Sanchez (board members of the Gateway Business Association).

A full list of Mike’s supporters can be found here.