Over the past year Portland, Oregon has continued to spiral out of control with ongoing riots and a climbing number of homeless encampments. The issues plaguing the city have caused the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic to move its 2021 tournament out of the city amid safety concerns. The golf tournament used to be a great economic driver for nearby businesses but as one of the city’s largest homeless camps has taken over the land nearby the tournament organizers felt they had no choice but to move.
The Daily Wire reports:
“It was a really tough decision,” said Tom Maletis, president of the Tournament Golf Foundation. “We are frustrated and disappointed about the move. But it’s just something that we feel is best for the tournament and everyone involved.” The Tournament Golf Foundation is the Portland-based nonprofit organization that runs the event.
The event was scheduled to take place at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, a private golf club located on the edge of the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. According to The Oregonian, the area around the golf course has become overwhelmed by one of the city’s largest homeless encampments.
The encampment is located close to the entrance to the private golf club, surrounding a nearby parking lot where attendees, players, and media would park their vehicles for the tournament.
The Oregonian states, “Both sides of 33rd (a nearby road) are dotted with run-down RVs, trailers, tents, makeshift housing structures, and mounds of rubble and garbage. As Portland’s homeless crisis has spiraled further out of control during the coronavirus pandemic, the stretch of road has quietly grown into one of the city’s largest encampments, transforming a tree-lined stretch with large bike lanes into an eyesore, fire hazard and — Portland Classic organizers say — a safety hazard.”
This is;t the first major event to pull away from Portland over its declining image and rise in crime. The NCAA denied the city’s bid to host the Women’s Final Four in October 2020 and the city has run into issues with the MLB over requests to bring a franchise to the city because of the overwhelming spike in violence.
hitting the blue state cities, counties, states continually in the pocket and maybe just maybe the elected idiots, voters, citizens will stand up and start doing something to stop the violence, destruction going on….whichever way possible start ‘recalling’ mayors, city officials, county officials, governors….
Nah. It will all be Trump’s fault.
As an Oregonian, I flinch every time I hear us referred to as a “Blue State”. We’re not. If you look at a precinct map of the 2020 vote, you will see that the entire state is Red, except for Portland, Salem (the capital), and Eugene, along with a strip of Blue along the route of I-5 connecting them. The only other Blue parts are Seaside and Astoria, the two coastal towns closest to Portland, again, connected by a thin, Blue strip along the “Sunset Hwy”, which connects them to Portland. And whence comes Portland’s power over the State? Not from Oregonians. Nope, in the decades I’ve been here, Portland has grown from around 250K (1/5th or so of the State’s population) to 2.5 Million (over half the state’s population) and that increase is almost entirely composed of ex-pat Californians bringing their dysfunctional policies here. That cancer is infecting Colorado and Arizona and even New Mexico, having already poisoned the West Coast (you’ll find a very similar Red/Blue split in Washington and even California, where at least 90% of those states, by area, are Red). So, before you condemn we long suffering California-colonized Oregonians, watch for this metastasis in your back yard.
No matter how you defend it, Oregon is a blue state by vote. Move to another Red State to help keep it red. Texas will welcome you. If all conservatives moved to a red state and all liberals moved to blue states we could draw our lines.
And then all red states can re-draw boundaries of free America, not the Marxist blue states.
This time Republicans have the upper hand in redistricting. The DEMs ae already trying to change the rules.
Fix the problem then! The blue has no clue obviously!!!
And that is why the parts to the east of that state that are not dim wit need to get accepted by the adjoining states that are red. Leave Oregon legally and become part of the states next to it. That will shrink their congressional numbers too and swell those of the state they join. Thought cali conservatives were doing that too? Split the blue states is a way to win a voice.
I live in New Mexico and it’s been a illegal welcoming pit for years. Crime going up, Democraps wonder why they have a hard time getting getting business to move in when they are a highway for drugs, human trafficking’s and general crime, gangs. New Mexico has lot of Federal Government and Indian owned land which is not available for public / State use. It limits the tax money and their BS. But they keep handing it out to illegals. My sister moved from Albuquerque to Arizona when they retired because of the gang crime. It was getting to dangerous even in the upper parts parts of town. . .
but, the drugs and human trafficking ,along with planned genocide( i know, parenthood, “my ass”) is what keeps the democrooks rolling in the dough! they sure aren’t going to give that up willingly!
HELL HAS A LAKE OF FIRE WAITING FOR THESE DEMONIC RATS! Can’t wait to see the smoke rise!
Why are organizations that accept taxpayer money allowed to spend part of that money on elections? Planned Parenthood gives the Dems millions. You get enough people mad enough and Congress will listen.
MAGA is enough people and they are indeed afraid of us. But they just cheated the nation in a national election and are getting away with it. Trump is great but the GOP is full of traitors. And don’t even look at the agencies and bureaus, nothing but forever establishment greedy traitors! And they hate every last MAGA supporter and are once again dictating our lives despite our efforts. Fair elections? If we do not stop this dim wits Soros and his ilk funded dictatorship, we are a finished democratic republic! Say hello to the communist!
Have wondered why the government gives money to groups like Planned Parenthood who then funnel it back to democrats. They’re just slush funds for the democrats. Democrats give funds confiscated from taxpayers to Planned Parenthood who then gives the money back to individual democrats and the democrat party to keep electing democrats who will take our money and give it to help democrats remain in control. What a vicious circle.
Should be a law that says if your organization gives money away government groups it didn’t need the money and will get no more taxpayer money.
Was in Las Cruces 1987 – 1990 as the Senior FBI agent in the small office there. Recently contemplated moving back there after spending two years in Mexico getting my wife her visa. I thought it would be nice for her to be near her home in Sonora, Mexico and Las Cruces would have given us that. When I checked into the additional taxes, I said no way, I moved back to Texas where life continues to be good. In Texas no state taxes on my federal retirement, my social security and my investment account. In New Mexico, its all fair game. I read that NM now has joined the list of ten states, led by California, where there are more people receiving government assistance than there are people working. I guess you gotta pay for it somehow, hence the taxes on everything.
I lived in New Mexico for five years a couple of decades ago, and absolutely loved it at that time! I have some sweet memories from my time there. But given what it has turned into over the past few years, would have no desire to return. Too bad it has become just another sink hole for the demented Democrats!! 🙁
Sadly some people are too passive to do a thing to stop it. I have noticed the dim wit enclaves are raging liberals or passive followers and there are too many of the later. When the battles do come these folks will be in shock and blame everyone but themselves all for what they consider peace of mind today. Blind, deaf and dumb is their personal and do not try to WAKE them up from their WOKE STUPOR!
Then how did they get so much power, as to ruin(or run, if you like) the state ??
They have sold their soul to satan for MONEY, CONTROL and POWER! THEY’LL BE SOOOOOORRY! 🙂
Called voter fraud and no doubt illegals do vote in all the dim wit strongholds. Each state must make their stand to be overrun by dim wits and their new illegal voting platform of the old origins of the KKK or fight! Fix the loop holes and vote to get rid of the dim wits, the rhinos like Romney and any establishment personas. And do it before it is too late.
I am a California transplant but when I left there I also left calis crud there too. I was from the north end of the state which is RED. If you are leaving a state because you don’t like the crud going on there then also leave leave your blue ideas with you. The only reason that Oregon seems to be a blue state is because everyone is piled up on themselves at the north part of the state. Hopefully the blue part of the state will be so fed up with the red part that when it’s placed on the ballot the blue part of the state will help push the red part of the state to Idaho then they can say the whole state of Oregon is a blue state. Not now though it’s about 50/50 so vote us out . Put your money where your mouth is and vote us out of the state of Oregon and into Idaho! Have a nice day.
Amen to that!
So. Are you blue or red? Your post lost me.
He is red, he left the blue state crud already.
Thanks immensely, Oldedude! There is an ominous warning in what you say. A Dr. John B. Calhoun did a study in the 1970’s colonizing rats in huge swarms quite analogous to socialist utopias: free food, free housing. Morale and initiative went down the tube; violent gang-like behavior blossomed, as did homosexuality. It seems that man-swarms like LA, Oakland, SF, NY City, Chicago and Portland are little different. What is happening in your state is happening in MINE, as well. Just thought you’d like to know…Can you guess the name of my benighted metropolis?
Sorry oldedude but vote total is what defines a state so, like it or not, Oregon is a blue state (by definition). I do feel your pain but we are not liberal Democrats so we don’t get to change the FACTS.
I’ve made similar comments about Colorado and even Texas. Colorado is under water. Texas is catching up with two cities among the nation’s top ten by population. The root cause is the tens of millions of public school students and grads who cannot define the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic. If we don’t privatize our schools, we might as well hire Putin to run our once great nation.
Xi Jinping really wants to run the world so he’d be glad to take over.
Xi Jinping doesn’t allow free and competitive enterprise to exist. Competition among schools is a cancer to the Chinese Communist Party and simply is not permitted.
I agree. And these people from Blue states as you said they are cancerous, cells and now metastasising to the red states. Red states NEED TO WAKE UP and be aware of the dangerous phenomenon that is going on and do something to avert it before the cancer or fire engulf the whole nation.
It won’t take over the whole nation as civil war will come. But today the acquiescence of the pacifist who can be termed lemmings for the dim wits is so irritating as they ignore the obvious and keep thinking this will all pass and all is right around them. They accept and ignore the problems now happening in those dim wit enclaves and will blame anyone who challenges their pretend peaceful existence though a street over the neighborhood burns. They do not want to see, hear, or listen to anything controversial. They live in the dim wit enclaves and vote with the crowd in that bubble.
But what they ignore today will harm them tomorrow but most are too disconnected to understand that. They and the free loaders living in the same enclaves do not understand the fake utopia of the dim wits will morph to the gulags and labor camps when the money runs out and reality is enforced. And they will fight you and I believing we are the problem that challenges their utopia of ignorance!
You are so correct. Illinois is the same way. That shows the true wisdom of the founding fathers in the Electoral college. It must be preserved
Popular vote is important but so the rural representation of the Electorial College. The weight of reality is evenly distributed or should be. But then who expected a national election to be stolen by the fraud of seven dim wit state vote counters? Stalin the great stain of Russia predicted it! Who counts your vote determines the winner by fraud, massive fraud soon to be exposed.
I live here too and you’re correct. So many classify Oregon as completely liberal. If Multnomah County weren’t counting all the votes we’d probably turn red instantly.
You are right. That “cancer” of liberal unresearched ideas has spread all through the West.
I was born and raised in Cali when it was majority Republican — when Cali was beautiful, green, and people cared about each other. I literally watched my birth State sour and the Democrats breed like flies everywhere, yet everyone I knew, family, friends, relatives, neighbors, business associates, were ALL REPUBLICANS!
How did the dems get control of our state? Then the Brown’s moved into Sacramento and the rapeing of California came hard and fast! The next two governors totally destroyed and stomped Calif into the ground with raging wildfires, millions of homeless, illegals everywhere.
We finally had enough and moved to AZ to escape the insanity of a destructive Governor in Cali. Now so many people are leaving Cali and coming to AZ — unfortunately, many are demented/destructive demonrats and they are bringing their political crap with them! So the fight begins again
here! I read that the Dempsey told dems to move to Conservative states and “CHANGE” them. They are trying, but AZ’s are fighting back!
WHAT WAS ONCE BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN BECOMES NASTY AND DESTROYED AT THE HANDS OF ANY DEMOCRAT LEADER! They are not smart people (horrendous self absorbed leaders) so they use races, especially the Black Race, to keep our Nation in turmoil so they can pass their twisted and destructive legislation behind closed doors!
If you trace the Demonstrators turned rioters that were in Portland, you would see a trail that leads back to Pelosi and her crew of idiots. Yes! It was paramount that our Nation be in chaos so the dems could steal our election! Covid was all a part of the plan to keep Americans unbalanced, confused, not paying attention to people committing illegal ballot counting, etc. It was all a part of the Plan to steal our Country. Only the dems did not count on Americans reacting so strongly from their taking our Presidency, etc etc.
What happened to Portland and Seattle was planned and then it moved to Arizona and Nevada. Cali was already a mess, so not much needed to be done with it but wildfires. You are right! This has been a Cancer devouring America and we had better STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK, OR WE WON’T HAVE A COUNTRY ANY MORE!
We have the same problem in California….a lot more Red than Blue…but we have that stupid rule that favors the Dimwits.
The dysfunctional Californians move to Oregon and now we are trying to unseat Newsom. Like Oregon the California coast is blue but most of the rest is red. Unlike Oregon we are fighting and we have Big Tech and Hollywood elites to fight against. Also more Republicans were voted into the House this last election from California.
A lot of the cancer is just plain old fraud at the polls. If they continue the nation will be won solely by fraud. We outnumber the liberals, we just don’t stop their cheating and do not play the same way they do. Leaving us out because we do not cheat at the polls. We could, we just don’t and until the states fix it, this will continue!
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Look at congress and view the way the dim wits follow their leader like lemmings. It is telling as all of them and half the GOP have crap on them in the cesspool so they hang together always. Time to hang them all in reality. They are all traitors!
Another proof of the socialist professors poisoning the students. College cities are disgusting.
My friend moved to Oregon out of college decades ago and it was a delightful, lovely place. Then Californians who had fouled their nests started moving there. Instead of learning from the mistaken policies, they brought them with them and have turned Portland and the area around it into the sewer they left behind and can’t figures out why.
So true. Liberals can’t stand the results of their failed policies so they move and infect new areas.
These morons asked for it, now they got it! kate brown deserves what she gets!
That’s a dream and never going to happen in Portland. The people left in that place are potheads and druggies, with no momentum to do anything but roll a joint. That is where most of the Flower children of the 70’s went with their spacey liberal ideas who never guided their children but let them run free.
Now tell me, who has been raised and perpetrates that same rearing is going to do anything for Portland? No one. They are all too busy looking for their bongs or where they hid their joints. It’s entirely different from most cities and the leadership is no different than its people! That is its downfall and what will destroy that city and wipe it off the map. SAD BUT 100% TRUE…
My cousin lives in Oregon and she says the people are just plain stupid. They simply will not listen to a logical argument. Several red counties are trying to become part of Idaho. She says if they do she will sell her house and move to Idaho.
Nice to see blue states and cities boycotted over THEIR policies for a change.
Hilarious! Love it when the chickens come home to roost!
I am sure it wasn’t a difficult decision. Golf is a capitalist sport. Homeless camps are a socialist reality.. the 2 dont mix. Socialism is a lie that useful idiots believe in.
I think you meant “useless idiots” didn’t you?
LOL. An idiot is an idiot whether useful or not. Sometimes I think my phone is a liberal bc of the way it changes what I type to something totally different than what it was supposed to be.
Homeless camps brought to you by useful idiots!
I lived in Portland for 10 wonderful years mid-80’s to mid-90’s. It was conservative, safe, clean, affordable, and friendly. Then the liberals with their communist ideology moved in and took control and it has been a hell hole pig sty ever since. I would never consider living there again unless there was a complete 180 degree change. I also as a business would never consider relocating or establishing a new facility there.
I agree with the LPGA’s decision to move the tournament. Who wants to contend with the homeless and riot issues. It is unsanitary and unsafe.
Ah, yes – remember those wonderfully ornate bronze drinking fountains (Benson Bubblers) which used to grace the city? Last time I saw one, there was a big, old human turd sitting in the middle of it. I wish I’d had a camera – it was the perfect symbol of what has happened to Portland.
What did they expect? Love and kisses for their total disregard for the safety of the their citizens and the inability to protect businesses and allow rioters to destroy their cities and states? Lol what the democrats morons going to do absolutely nothing but blame Trump? You made it clear y’all don’t want law enforcement to do anything but stand around and let the lawlessness continue unabated as the country has seen in democratic govern states how incompetent and corrupt the liberals judges are and how far they will go?
The American taxpayers are paying for it. Piglosi gave the blue states that had been destroyed billons to cover their loss. Guess what Cuomo did? Paid illegal aliens $15,000 each. That is where a lot of our money goes Illegal aliens.
Love it!
Perhaps if all business travel and events stop going to Portland, OR and trade dry up, the residents of Portland “MIGHT” get the message and clean up their city. Start by firing the Mayor, the City Council Members, and the politicized Police Chief. Dump the Oregon Governor, who is a complete disaster and lunatic Lefty, and then maybe, just maybe, 21 or 22 Counties in Oregon will stop their petition to leave the State of Oregon and join ranks with Idaho!
Hhhmmm…maybe sports are not entirely woke. ….Nah, yes they are!
Why aren’t they blaming Trump? They blame him for everything else. Oh wait a minute, I think the russians probably did it.
Biden and the soclest Dems n Rino Republicans have made our Country dangerous just for there polical agenda. If something is not done soon we won’t have a country. I believe it’s there plan for years.
I agree. All of this just didn’t happen overnight.
Oh well!!!! Shame on them for letting this craziness go on in their state.
Sounds like sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. Great to see the voters getting what they wanted. Now if the remainder of police leave, they can burn the city down completely.
I love it! The idiots in “blue states” need to start being held accountable. This is a start and a step in the right direction.
In 1998, I visited Portland along with a few business partners from Sri Lanka in connection with a dairy project to be set up in Sri Lanka. We were all so impressed by the orderliness of the city, the friendly helpfulness of the people and generally, it was a most pleasant experience. I cannot imagine how or what has happened to these citizens.
Some things are so painfully obvious that, in this case, Portland is
really tempting fate if whatever they are doing or not doing continues. Really DUMB and defying any reasonable explanation. Are Democrats really this stupid>>?
Yes, they are. Add on ignorant, greedy, irresponsable, EVIL, unfair, unGodly, thieving, liars, unpatriotic, anti-American and conniving and you just about have defined a dumocrap.
The woke folk harm commercial athletics in many ways. The MLB moved an event from Atlanta to Denver because woke folk felt insulted. The PGA moved an event from Portland because the woke folk stunk up the place. They have many weapons.
The MLBs rating went down 49%. The NBA is really bad and the NFL is losing ground all the time. Best thing I have seen in sports is a Hockey game where the microphone was fading in and and the woman singing the Stars Spangled Banner was trying very hard. Suddenly someone from the audience started helping her out and then all 12,000 (I think that is right) people in the stands started singing with her. EVERYONE was standing. I had tears in my eyes. It was beautiful and it doesn’t seem to be played much anymore.
Good decision, how does one hit a golf ball with such a mess and no effort to clean it up, rather the city encourages it. Why would anyone live there? Move out, let the homeless, the protesters, and the druggies have it.
Portland is sinking fast into the quagmire their IDIOT DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP did to that city. Now that the golf tournament gave them a HUGE “NO WAY”, Portland’s tourist trade is nonexistent and many businesses left that city. What is left and who in their right mind would ever want to go to that burned out, nasty rubbish smelling town full of desperate homeless, BLM has beens, Antifa rejects, etc??? No one with a sane mind!
Doesn’t that sound like a dreamy fun place to go? No? ABSOLUTELY NOT! What was once a quaint town has become a nasty disease breeding town full of desperation and greed. No one I know wants to go there now or ever.
Portland will soon be taking its last breath as the only people staying there are demented flower children dems who are high 24/7 and not even aware of the reality that surrounds them. Wait, isn’t that the mindset of most Democraps even without their Happy Smokes?
Say “Good bye” to Portland as it becomes one of America’s Ghost Towns. Only this ghost town will be covered with trash, human waste, and criminals — better go armed to protect yourself and loved ones. Or better yet, find a beautiful city run by Conservatives where things are clean, people want to help you, and life has infinite possibilities! Yep, that’s a Trump Town — coming soon!
Ditto, Micala, ditto. Great post.
Another dying city like Detroit. Liberalism is a curse on the nation.
Congratulations Ted Wheeler and Joanne Hardesty, you’ve managed to sink Portland Oregon, once the great City of Roses and the Rose Festival Parade with fun events which would bring people into the city from everywhere, into a trash homeless camp. Not working with the churches and nonprofits has accelerated the problem. You’re pathetic and mentally ill.
LISTEN UP…PREZ TRUMP Liked MY IDEA of HOMELESS SHEL TERS and SOUP KITCHENS Across the Entire UNITED STATES. ABOUT the PROTESTS and RIOTS….LOCK THEM ALL UP. Do NOT PUT UP with THOSE Who INSTIGATE VIOLENCE. THERE Must Be LAW and ORDER. DO YOUR JOB. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
It seems to me that we need two new hospitals. Maybe more.
We need several hospitals that treat PTSD suffers and provide living quarters and treatment for as long as they need it!
Then we need hospitals that treat and house drug addicts for as long as they need help.
When, in their wisdom, the politicians got rid of mental hospitals the result was street people. We need to clean up the mess……again.
The reason California was because evil children were getting their parents put into mental institutions o they could gain control of their money.
Good Portland deserve that because city is run by idiots.
Everyone outside of Portland should boycott the city until someone with a modicum of common sense. which is the last thing you will find among Democrats and Left Wing Radicals, takes control of the city and has tactical teams descend upon the thugs in the city like Wyatt Earp and his Posse, and regains lawful control of the city. Right now the thugs are running the asylum.
Never been to Portland and never want to go
THEY ASKED FOR IT….THEY GOT IT…
How does your city or town rate, are you seeing the decline of your neighborhoods due to leftwing insanity? Decide what you want for your families and the rest of your lives because its not lookin pretty! Ignorance breeds ignorance.
VERMIN infested portland is getting EXACTLY what they DESERVE, I hope it MAGNIFIES
IMMENSELY!
Who wants to go to Portland anymore anyway? For anything
And what party is in control of that nasty city? Maybe the demorats.
Democrats what can you say? Democrat battle cry defund the police ,oops maybe not such a good idea, Biden is the habitual prevaricate who has stolen ideas from others his entire life, guilty of plagiarism you bet, now, the Biden’s family game pay to play, without even having a “BS charity cover” like the Clinton’s selling access etc. now we have corrupted the art world to have secret access. with very secret buyers, what a joke. Still trying to figure out what great talent Hunter had to be taken on so many tax payor trips to China and ending up with a billion dollar deal with 200 million commission. 2022 right around the corner very few Democrats will be elected or reelected total corruption.
THe NCAA and baseball what upstanding organizations. OH, wait np they are not as basebll moved the all star game because the idiots that run that corrupt organization don’t know what fair voting is and how protecting the voting protects the integrety of our elections, they contribute to a domestic terrorist organization BLM and actually believe the BLM protects Blacks, how funny and if these idiots truely believe that they are truely idiots of the greatest degree. The NCAA who allows boys that changed gender to participate in women sports. The transgender people should have thier own sports to compete in and not be so chicken s..ts and a waste of breath/air to pick on girls who are generally at a great disadvantage. Why out law steriods and allow this. These NCAA leaders should all be hung in my opinion. So who in the heell cares about nything these idiots say. Oh I have not yet heard, now maybe there are, women that have become men participating in mens sports. If there are any cases please tell me. Thanks
Actions have consequences and the law of physics ” for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” is playing out in Portland. If it isn’t already, the real estate values in and around it are getting cheaper by the day. Maybe in another 10 yrs it will be a decent place in which to live..