I hope someone who knows this so far unidentified woman sees the article and lets her know about it because, while not as classic as the 1967 Flower Power photo (which has a Wikipedia page), it is still a pretty damn good image.
The article itself doesn’t add anything to what we already know. However, it is the image that sends the message.
Everyone from Trump on down in his administration knows that a lie is being spun about Portland. However, only one knows it is a lie from personal experience. That is Secretary of Labor and former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer and mayor of the city of Happy Valley, a Portland suburb. She knows Portland very well. She knows that it had problems five years ago with protests that included violent clashes and vandalism, but that now it is a peaceful city. Read local paper article about her praising him for this. This is the Cabinet member who invited him to her office to see a large banner hung on the Labor Dept. building with his face printed on it.
How she can live with herself is beyond me. How can she go back home, presumably she still lives in Happy Valley, and face her neighbors?
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