Pirate's Cove

You already had the city ignoring the homeless, the drug needles, the urine and feces, now you throw in constant “protests” which leave trashed businesses, cars, glass everywhere, fires, and so much more, with the cops being held back for weeks on end. Who thinks this is a good business environment?

Businesses leaving downtown Portland over ‘lawlessness’: report

The months of protests and riots in Portland have prompted some businesses in the city to opt to move out completely or relocate outside its central district, according to a report on Monday.

Greg Goodman, the co-president of the Downtown Development Group, said in a letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler and members of the Portland City Council that the exodus of companies wasn’t related to the Black Lives Matter movement “but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.”

“The number is like nothing I have seen in 42 years of doing business in downtown,” he wrote, according to Portland’s KOIN.

Goodman said companies include Daimler Chrysler, Airbnb, Banana Republic, Microsoft, Saucebox, and Google, which he claimed: “leased 90,000 square feet in the Macy’s building [and] has stopped construction of their improvements.”

“The list goes on and on. If you know a retail or office broker, give them a call and ask them how many clients they have are trying to leave,” he continued.

Goodman encouraged city leaders to “walk around downtown Portland in the morning,” adding that he would personally give them a tour.

“You aren’t sweeping the streets, needles are all over the place, garbage cans are broken and left open, glass from car windows that have been broken out is all over the streets, parks are strewn with litter,” he wrote. “You are willfully neglecting your duties as elected officials to keep our city safe and clean.”

If they move completely out of Portland, how much tax revenue will be lost? How many lower end workers will no longer have those jobs because they cannot afford to travel to surrounding cities to do those jobs? Then you have other workers leaving the city to follow the job, and others leaving the downtown area because of the danger to their lives/having their property trashed. Who is going to want to live there? Who is going to want to open a business?

Of course, Mayor Ted Wheeler is Suddenly Concerned with the violence

In a statement to KOIN, Wheeler said he is reviewing the decision as to why officers didn’t step in on Saturday when right-wing activists, and Black Lives Matter counter-demonstrators fought.

“I vehemently oppose what the Proud Boys and those associated with them stand for, and I will not tolerate hate speech and the damage it does in our city. White nationalists, particularly those coming to our city armed, threaten the safety of Portlanders, and are not welcome here,” Wheeler said. “We are at a critical place where police officers are needed to intervene in protests where police officers themselves are the flashpoint.”

So, Ted only has a problem with one set of A-holes, not both sets of A-holes, when it is the second set of A-holes who tend to start the violence. The BLM/Antifa folks do not need the Proud Boys around to get violent.

Anyway, Portland is just learning the lesson of NYC and Minneapolis. And other Dem cities allowing constant violent protests. A lesson Kenosha is learning

Police and protesters in Kenosha, Wis., clashed for a second night Monday following the shooting of a Black man that touched off civil unrest similar to that in other cities across the country.

Officers deployed tear gas in an attempt to disperse a crowd outside the Kenosha County courthouse. Gov. Tony Evers deployed 125 Guard members to the city in an effort to prevent the kind of violence and vandalism that occurred in the city on Sunday night.

The unrest continued overnight, as video appeared to show a car dealership in Kenosha being looted, while others stomped on cars and pulled down street lights. Earlier, a furniture store was looted and set on fire. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections building was also reportedly set on fire.

Several businesses in the city’s Uptown district were ablaze by 1 a.m., which one New York Times reporter called “Just a horrible scene.”

The question is, what does Gov. Evers do for today, because, kudos to him for sending the Guard, but, it’s not enough, obviously. But, do those businesses that have been trashed return? Or do they go elsewhere?