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June 23, 2009

Now You See The Cesar Chavez Blvd Renaming Committee … Now You Don't

Today In Things That Make You Go "Hmmmm": Blogolitical Sean notes some strange doin's with the Cesar Chavez Blvd (Whether You Want It Or Not) Committee:

In a stunning new development, only hours before the long-anticipated hearing before Portland City Council on the question of renaming 39th Avenue, the entire membership of the Chavez Boulevard Renaming Committee has vanished, apparently leaving only its two co-chairs to soldier forward.

All photographs that might identify the Committee membership suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the Committee’s website, leaving only speculation as to who the brave souls were who once demanded that the City rename Interstate Boulevard.

The Chavez Committee has never posted the names of its membership, and has held no public meetings, so these photographs were all that gave a clue as to who its members might be during the whole of the past two years.

Read the whole thing. If it doesn't leave you scratching your head over the whole deal I don't really think you've been paying attention.

Myself, I find it at least semi-amusing that the committee that's so passionate about telling people along Thirty-Ninth Avenue that they could be getting a new street name (whether they want it or not) can't be bothered to update a website that's lain absolutely fallow since just after last November's elections. Check it out. On the page which lists City Council members to whom one might write to show support, Mayor Tom Potter is still listed as … well, Mayor.

I told y'alls this would end in tears.

Posted by The Chinuk at June 23, 2009 05:53 AM