Part 11 of 12
F. Panders to the loudest voice of the mob.
Jules Bailey heard a very small group of disruptive know-nothing attention seekers who noisily demanded rent control. Unable to resist the call to pander, Jules Bailey, who had never as a legislator nor county commissioner sponsored or publicly called for a bill to change Oregon law to allow rent control, had a miraculous epiphany revealing his newly found belief in rent control. Again, no facts nor data nor research nor defensible reasoned arguments nor public debate were used in the commission of this craven capitulation.

Bailey said he would lobby legislators for rent control. Not a single member of the Oregon Legislature has come forward to support Bailey’s pandering proposal for Rent Control.


Richard Ellmyer
Portland voter and citizen activist since 1975