Oregonian Readers respond: Portland won’t listen to people’s voice

Jim Labbe, founder and director of the nonprofit Participatory Budgeting Oregon, says “We have to make a permanent commitment to giving people a voice, and if we do that, people will come out and use that voice,” (“Who should decide how Portland spends $16 million a year? Voters will weigh in,” Sept. 23.)

Give me a break. It didn’t work when 83% of the 730 people giving written testimony to the Portland City Council wanted César E. Chávez Boulevard to revert back to 39th Avenue. And it doesn’t work when we ask that potholes be made a priority.

Read the rest at oregonlive.com.