Quotes by Ted Wheeler - Page 2

If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.
Ted Wheeler /
Homelessness
Streets
Visible
Abject
Address
Re-Elected
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If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's just the truth.
Ted Wheeler /
Disappointed
Expecting
Homelessness
Portland
Mayor
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Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
Ted Wheeler /
British
British Columbia
California
Carbon
Columbia
Hurt
Opponents
Prove
Businesses
Claimed
Economies
Otherwise
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Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.
Ted Wheeler /
Black Community
Our Community
Community People Black
Community Black People
Specifically
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There's no question that, in nearly seven weeks of nightly demonstrations, the police have done many things right, and they've done some things wrong as well.
Ted Wheeler /
Nearly
Demonstrations
Nightly
No Question
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Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.
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Ignored
Infrastructure
Jeopardy
Urban
Invest
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I'm willing to take criticism all day long from Fox News. But I'm not willing to accept criticism from Fox News of the men and women of the Portland Police Bureau.
Ted Wheeler /
Criticism
Fox News
Men And Women
News
Police
Portland
Willing
Accept
All Day
Bureau
Women Men Long
Fox
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If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.
Ted Wheeler /
Urban
Urban Areas
Anchor
We Cannot
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It sends the wrong message to participate in hosted golf and other entertainment activities while thousands of Oregonians face foreclosure, unemployment or are simply struggling.
Ted Wheeler /
Unemployment
Activities
Participate
Sends
Struggling
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My residents don't know who a federal officer is or a local police officer or a county deputy or a state patroller. They don't know, and they don't care. It's all the same to them.
Ted Wheeler /
County
Don't Care
Police Officer
Residents
Deputy
Local
Officer
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There are some situations where the police need to have adequate resources on hand in order to be able to go into a situation safely. Their job is to enforce the law, not be martyrs.
Ted Wheeler /
Adequate
Enforce
Martyrs
Safely
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I believe we should take steps to ensure that travel is not only cost effective, but also in line with what the public expects from public employees during challenging economic times.
Ted Wheeler /
Steps
Travel Believe I Believe
Economic Times
Employees
Ensure
Expects
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I get up in the morning and by the time I've gone to bed there's three or four or five new crises that weren't there when I started the day. That's what being mayor of Portland is about.
Ted Wheeler /
Portland
Time Morning Day
By The Time
Crises
Mayor
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Violence and hatefulness have never been - nor will they ever be - who we are. This is the city I was born in, the city I was raised in and the city I love. Portland is also a united city.
Ted Wheeler /
Portland
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This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump's White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.
Ted Wheeler /
Abuse
Core
Data
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Officials
Strategy
Troops
Trump
White House
Absolute
Bolster
Poll
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The trading mechanism proposed in Clean Energy Jobs is based upon sound free-market principles. It will allow emitters to find the most cost-effective ways to meet emissions reduction goals.
Ted Wheeler /
Clean Energy
Emissions
Reduction
Trading
Cost-Effective
Proposed
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Clean energy provides a unique opportunity in rural and urban communities alike by training Oregonians with new skills for projects that must be built in our communities and can't be outsourced.
Ted Wheeler /
Clean Energy
New Skills
Alike
Rural
Unique Opportunity
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I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.
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Inappropriate
Traffic
Blocking
Violating
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We don't know what the trajectory of autonomous or linked vehicles will be, and we don't have a clear understanding on what that means in terms of infrastructure and policy. But we know it's coming.
Ted Wheeler /
Autonomous
Infrastructure
Linked
Trajectory
Vehicles
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As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that a better future won't just happen by accident or by sticking with the status quo.
Ted Wheeler /
Better Future
Oregon
Status Quo
Accident
Quo
Status
Trail
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Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.
Ted Wheeler /
American Values
Assembly
Core
Free Speech
Portland
Speech
Embracing
Long History
Protecting
The Most Important
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I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.
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Hazards
Homelessness
Safety
Streets
Address
All People
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From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our local actions send ripples through the energy landscape nationwide.
Ted Wheeler /
Clean
Coal
Electricity
Energy
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Landscape
Oregon
Portland
Act
Actions
Ban
Fossil
Local
Nationwide
Standard
Ripples
Send
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Is Portland worse off than other cities? Is Portland really 'Tent City U.S.A.?' I want to be clear: The answer is no. While the homeless situation in Portland is significant and unacceptable, it is not unique.
Ted Wheeler /
Cities
Clear
Homeless
Portland
Significant
Situation
Unique
Off
Tent
Unacceptable
While
Worse
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The world's attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families' health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.
Ted Wheeler /
Climate Change
Coastal
Livelihood
Oregon
Stakes
Increasingly
Threatens
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The most effective role for the Oregon Treasury is to continue to demand responsible business practices and use our influence to push for the development of profitable investment opportunities in the clean energy sector.
Ted Wheeler /
Clean Energy
Demand
Oregon
Profitable
Treasury
Practices
Sector
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Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.
Ted Wheeler /
Activity
Democratic
Engaged
Including
Looting
Peaceful
Private Property
Rioting
Damaging
Essential
Unfortunately
Individuals
Private
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The police should be addressing car break-ins and burglaries and things like that. And increasingly what they're doing is providing social services. The majority of police are not trained in the provision of social services.
Ted Wheeler /
Majority
Providing
Addressing
Increasingly
Services
Trained
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We're going to send a unified message to the rest of this country, which is that we do not accept violence in this community. If you are thinking of coming to Portland, Oregon, to engage in acts of violence, we don't want you.
Ted Wheeler /
Oregon
Portland
Unified
Acts
Engage
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Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.
Ted Wheeler /
Higher Education
Wishful Thinking
Beaches
Bottle
Public Access
Wishful
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The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental health services. It should happen elsewhere with no police and no judges and no juries and no jails.
Ted Wheeler /
Health
Addiction
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Elsewhere
Health Services
Mental Health
Police
Right Place
Should
First
Criminal
Happen
Jails
Judges
Place
Mental
Right
Provide
Resort
Services
System
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Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and into stability. This is the Portland I imagine. This is the Portland I dream about every single day.
Ted Wheeler /
Affordable
Affordable Housing
Housing
Marginalized
Portland
Stability
Every Single Day
Lift
Single Day
Uses
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Transitioning our households, businesses and government operations in Portland and Multnomah County to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 is achievable, but it will require strong policy guidance and innovative new sources of funding.
Ted Wheeler /
Clean Energy
County
Funding
Guidance
Innovative
Operations
Portland
Households
Require
Sources
Transitioning
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Again, when it comes to enforcement of our community standards, we support people's rights to demonstrate, but we don't care about who you are or your politics are. If you engage in violence in this city, you will be held accountable.
Ted Wheeler /
Enforcement
Our Community
Standards
Accountable
Demonstrate
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We are fortunate to live in an attractive, highly desirable and vibrant city. A city that is growing, that draws new residents and visitors from across the world each day and a city with a great sense of pride in all we do and have to offer.
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Attractive
Desirable
Draws
Each Day
Residents
Visitors
Great World City
Great World Day
Great Sense
Vibrant
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The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they're being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.
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Cold
Heavy
Intervening
Any Given Moment
Criticized
Handed
Quickly
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My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community I believe shielded me from time to time from the many difficult and uncomfortable truths about our history and about our society.
Ted Wheeler /
Difficult
Leader
Privilege
Uncomfortable
White
Time History Power
From Time To Time
Mayor
Truths
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And by reducing carbon pollution in our atmosphere, we are protecting our air, water, mountains, forests, deserts, valleys, coasts and rivers - the astounding natural ecosystems that support all life and make Oregon the special place we call home.
Ted Wheeler /
Atmosphere
Carbon
Ecosystems
Forests
Oregon
Pollution
Reducing
Rivers
Valleys
Astounding
Mountains
Deserts
Protecting
Special Place
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I was very clear that we'd invest much more in shelter space to get people off the streets, out of doorways, out from overpasses and get them connected with services - whatever services they need, whether it's mental health whether its addiction or economic resources.
Ted Wheeler /
Addiction
Clear
Connected
Economic
Mental Health
Resources
Shelter
Streets
Invest
Mental
Services
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We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But we're never going to solve homelessness - not here in Portland, not here in any major city in America - if we keep assuming that it is purely a local issue.
Ted Wheeler /
Assuming
Homelessness
Obligation
Portland
Local Level
Purely
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There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau - making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.
Ted Wheeler /
Accountability
Oversight
Tools
Bureau
Effectively
Important Role
Strike
Supporting
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Why are these things happening in Portland? In part, it's because we are a progressive community. Groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys... they come from the outside. They come here because they know that their message is not necessarily welcomed here. They're trying to provoke a reaction.
Ted Wheeler /
Patriot
Portland
Provoke
Reaction
Welcomed
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I was inspired to see leaders from Paris, New York City, San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C. rolling up their sleeves to create clean and safe transportation systems; make homes and buildings efficient, comfortable and affordable; and ensure more of our energy comes from clean sources like wind and solar.
Ted Wheeler /
New York
Affordable
Clean
Comfortable
Efficient
New York City
Rolling
Safe
San Francisco
Sleeves
Transportation
Vancouver
Wind
City Energy New
Buildings
City
Ensure
Francisco
Homes
San
Solar
Systems
York
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I said I wanted to lay the foundation for my governance and that included building relations with the City Council, with bureau directors, making sure we had the right leaders in place, making sure we're communicating with community groups that have an interest in of policymaking. I feel that we did that.
Ted Wheeler /
City Council
Council
Governance
Groups
Bureau
Communicating
Included
Lay
Relations
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The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don't even know who's pulling them into the vans.
Ted Wheeler /
Car
Abhorrent
Administration
Denied
Portland
Process
Tactics
Trump
Apparently
Cause
Due
Street
Off
Literally
Probable
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Portland doesn't have a 'sit-lie' ordinance like Seattle or San Francisco. Our use of high pedestrian zones is significantly more limited and nuanced, but it gives authorities the flexibility they need to address specific public safety or public health threats in congested areas, by keeping our sidewalks accessible and walkable.
Ted Wheeler /
Flexibility
Portland
Public Health
Safety
San Francisco
Zone
Authorities
Francisco
Ordinance
Pedestrian
San
Threats
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The changing climate is pushing already vulnerable communities into crisis situations. Children with asthma are forced to miss school and stay inside due to poor air quality. Day laborers and construction workers must work outside in dangerous temperatures. People without homes are unable to escape the impacts of hotter summers and wetter winters.
Ted Wheeler /
Asthma
Construction
Hotter
Laborers
Pushing
Due
Escape
Forced
Homes
Impacts
Summers
Temperatures
Unable
Winters
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