Welp, if you can't tell, I'm pressed for time, and people seem to want to talk about McPAIN no matter what I post, so this will be just a short weekly placeholder.
I noticed something on Wall St that I haven't seen in a long, long while: 9, count 'em, NINE empty parking spaces in a row. Nine! I the middle of the day. Last year at this time, on a nice sunny day, you just started rounding Bond & Wall, and finally settled on something way off the beaten path.
I can SEE Bend slowing VISIBLY. Which is bad. Cuz once you can SEE it on the streets, it's pretty damn bad.
The Pita Pit, which opened with such fan-fair & crowds, similar to Sonic, was DEAD EMPTY. I mean, the half life of The Big Bang Openings, has gotten down to 1 week. It's just one week, and the honeymoon is over.
And Bend's Beautiful People, you know, the people with 278 non-profits started in the past 3 months... you know, people with morals, looks, titties and MONEY so superior to you and me, that you & me make THEM wanna VOMIT.... well, those people have started engaging in the lowest, most VILE activity known to man:
THEY ARE APPLYING FOR JOBS!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY GOD!!!!!!! NORMALCY IS FOR LOSERS!!! ONLY THE START-UP & ABANDONMENT OF NON-PROFITS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Yeah. These people are applying for jobs. OK, this is like The Yankees putting a penguin on first base or something. It's so alien to these people to engage in NORMAL LIFE, even they don't know how to do it well, if at all.
Well, if you have 2 cents to rub together this should all be obvious. Hard times are here to stay. If you're looking for The Turn, don't look in Bend. We're 18 months behind, and twice as deep in the shitter.
We're supposedly 3X the exposure to RE as the rest of the state. Bullshit. We're 5-6X MINIMUM. 150% MINIMUM of this regoins growth over the past 10-12 years is due to RE. Without it, we'd have SHRUNK.
This "Credit Crunch" is the End of Days for us. We're dead meat. $120K medians may look Way The Hell Too Optimistic at the end. Why? Bend was purposefully BILKED FOR EVERY FUCKING CENT by RE INTERESTS. And they were enabled by our beloved City Council. Realize that these positions have NO PURPOSE but dispensing influence.
TOM GREENE is the PRESIDENT of the Central Oregon Realtors Association, and I'm sorry, but we DO NOT NEED yet another BOUGHT & PAID FOR WHORE RUNNING THIS TOWN. We have FAR MORE than enough. My God.
These people got us HERE. This is the "Who could have possibly predicted THIS would have happened?" types. They literally cannot predict the sunrise.
Bend council candidates all over map in fundraising
The second-highest fundraiser, attorney Jeff Eager, has brought in $17,563 in his bid for the seat currently held by Mayor Bruce Abernethy, who is not seeking re-election. About $4,000 of Eager’s money comes from Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing and the Central Oregon Association of Realtors’ PAC.
In the three races with an incumbent seeking re-election, the challengers all have raised more money. Former Mayor Kathie Eckman, who is trying to unseat Councilor Linda Johnson, has raised the most of any candidate: $19,446. More than a third of that money has come from Eckman and her husband, Paul, but a large amount has also come from a handful of political action committees, including the Bend Firefighters Association, Deschutes County Republican Central Committee, Central Oregon Association of Realtors and Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing, a builders’ group.
Eckman said this election is the first time she’s received money from political action groups. She said the builders and real estate agents are supportive of her because of her earlier work in city government.
Fundraising efforts in the race between Councilor Peter Gramlich and Tom Greene, the president of the Central Oregon Association of Realtors, are more evenly matched. To date, Gramlich has raised $9,329 and spent $4,007, while Greene has raised $10,034 and spent $8,899.
Gramlich has not received any contributions from organized PACs. Greene has received $3,000 from the Realtor’s association’s PAC and $1,000 from the builder’s group.
In the race between Councilor Jim Clinton and propane company owner Don Leonard, Clinton has raised $5,149 — including $500 from the Bend Firefighters Association’s PAC — and spent $1,279. Leonard has raised $9,100 and spent $6,171. About half of Leonard’s bank account has come from the Realtor’s and builder’s PACs. He has also received $250 from the Deschutes County Republican Central Committee.
No. That is NOT BULLSHIT. Nearly every SINGLE FUCKING CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE is a bought & PAID FOR WHORE of the LOCAL RE PAC's. Every fucking one.
This Jeff Eager fucker takes the cake, in that he's a LAWYER too.
OK, NONE of these FUCKWADS are worthy of having me pee in their fucking mouths. they are to a one, INFLUENCE PEDDLERS. That is the ONLY GROWTH INDUSTRY LEFT in this town. Hell, it's almost the only industry, period.
This is similarly how I feel about Obama-Nation & McPAIN: This country has become a nation of Politco's, influence peddling whores. WHY is the HELL would Osama spend $160 MILLION in one month?
Because politics is the industry of SELLING OUT EVERYONE ELSE. Get as close to The Honey Pot as you can, and then FUCK EVERYONE.
This country is doomed. They're starting to raise the idea of AmeriKKKa as a second-rate power in mainline media. That means it's really already here. And believe me, it IS inevitable.
Don't vote for these City Council fuckers. Write in someone. Write in Dunc. Write me in, I Hate To Baste Your BUTTERBALL. Write in someone. This town is going to shit, and COAR has their hands firmly on the rudder, which is planted in the asshole of EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE. COBA too.
We're losing this place. To the worst fucking bunch of thieves on EARTH. read the above article and DO NOT VOTE FOR A SINGLE FUCKER that is either:
1) Supported by RE or builder PAC's, or
2) Won't disclose their funding sources. Dallas Brown comes to mind.
Send a message folks. Write in someone you know. This town is LOST cuz of these fuckers. They have put us on the road to OBLIVION. Go look around downtown. It's a fucking GHOSTTOWN.
THAT is what RE has gotten us. We put ALL our eggs in ONE BASKET, because RE PAC's have bought every election for a generation in this town. You CAN SEE they are trying to buy this one. They will probably succeed.
They will SUCK THIS TOWN DRY. They will DESTROY IT. They really already have. We are already totally doomed. Vote, and tell these fuckers to FUCK OFF.
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A few months from now, Bend’s city government is going to look very different.
With three new members chosen in Tuesday’s election and a fourth to be appointed after councilor Chris Telfer leaves to join the state Senate early next year, the Bend City Council is set for a major turnover in January.
The shift will come at a challenging time in the city’s history, as officials take on a slowing economy and a handful of major projects, including the expansion of Bend’s urban growth boundary, development at Juniper Ridge and the search for public transit funding. Both new and returning councilors say such a large transition means change is likely on the way for Bend, but it’s not clear just how it will play out.
On Election Day, Bend voters retained just one of the three City Council incumbents up for re-election: Jim Clinton. Two others, Peter Gramlich and Linda Johnson, were ousted in favor of candidates Tom Greene and Kathie Eckman, respectively. In a fourth race, for the seat held by outgoing Mayor Bruce Abernethy, newcomer Jeff Eager beat two other challengers for a spot on the council.
Although the new councilors won’t take their seats until the new year, City Manager Eric King said he plans to start working with them much sooner so they’re ready to make a smooth transition this winter.
“;The plan is to, early on, involve them pretty intensively,” King said.
“First is an orientation we’re planning with the council in December, then a financial strategy session with the council in January and a goal-setting session in February. Early on, we want to establish a sense of team with council and staff — we’re partners in this together,” he said.
Eckman, who served on the council for more than 15 years, including a stint as Bend’s mayor from 1991 to 1992, said her return to elected office probably won’t come with as steep of a learning curve as it might for other council newcomers. She said she wants to hit the ground running, especially on financial issues.
“I’ve made arrangements to get a hard copy of the budget, and I’m going to be taking a long look at those line items,” Eckman said.
Eager, an attorney, said he plans to start meeting with residents before his term begins to find out what they’re looking for from the City Council — especially when it comes to the economy.
“I want to be talking more with small-business owners and other folks about what the city can do to help our economy,” he said. “If there are barriers to job creation, we need to look at eliminating those barriers and make sure the city of Bend can do anything it can to make its economy as strong as possible.”
Councilor Mark Capell, whose term expires in two years, said he expects the council’s votes to spend money to go a bit differently in the future.
“I think from talking to the new councilors that are coming in, we’ve got a fiscally conservative group,” Capell said. “I think they’re going to be very tight on the budget, which I think is very appropriate in today’s environment.”
Capell, Clinton and Bill Friedman will remain on the council. Friedman has been hospitalized since last week after suffering complications during back surgery.
Clinton said he expects much of the council’s business to carry on as usual but worries the three incoming councilors might have a shared support for particular industries.
In total, Eckman, Eager and Green received more than $38,500 in campaign contributions from Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing, the political action committee run by the Central Oregon Builders Association. The three candidates received a total of $14,050 from the Central Or-egon Association of Realtors, the group for which Greene serves as president.
“I think there’s a danger signal that three of the new people were massively, disproportionately supported by the development industry — that’s something to watch for,” Clinton said. “We hope they’ll have a broader perspective beyond that.”
Greene could not be reached for comment, but Eckman and Eager said the contributions will not affect the way they make decisions on the council.
“I can tell you that the builders and actually no one else that gave me money ever asked me how I would vote on anything,” Eager said. “No one has asked me to do anything for them. I would view any group of constituents the same way — I have an open door, and I’m able to talk to anyone.”
Eckman said she doesn’t feel like she owes any particular group special consideration.
“I felt that receiving (the donations) was an endorsement of who I am, not me endorsing them,” she said.
Development-related issues are likely to pop up throughout the new councilors’ terms. Last week, the council started its considerations of a UGB map forwarded by the Bend Planning Commission. Although the council will likely make a decision of its own on the UGB before the end of the year, officials said the issue probably won’t go away so quickly.
And at Juniper Ridge, where development has been slowed by traffic congestion issues and negotiations with the Oregon Department of Transportation, the council will need to make decisions on issues ranging from infrastructure to land sales.
As a veteran of previous council transitions, Eckman said she’s hopeful that both new and old members of the council will be able to set aside their differences and keep moving forward on a variety of issues.
“(Council turnovers) can be extremely disruptive, especially if the approach to governing is dramatically different, which I think might happen here,” Eckman said. “I have been a part of that before, where I felt like I was in the minority and felt like I had been taken over, so I’m going to be very cautious about that kind of approach, and make sure we’re inclusive and work together as a team.”
Local homebuilders are left with unattractive options
Man, this article pisses me off on so many levels. This builder is shocked at the possibility of taking a loss on a bubble house. MY GOD....the UNTHINKABLE. I hope he took the 20K loss deal that was offered cuz it isn't going to get any better dumbass.
Best to pass the loss off to the "Bank". Whenever you hear people talking about passing losses off to "the bank", remember, "the bank" is now YOU, the taxpayer - forced participant to the numerous unspeakable bailout packages.
The idea of a builder losing money?? Who would have guessed?
And yes Bruce, I love the last line....affordable housing is here at last!!! $300K for a home, hahahahahahahahaha!
New post at BB2......
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