According to Firearm Chronicles
Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler is facing a tough re-election challenge this year, but it’s not a conservative who’s challenging the progressive (this is Portland we’re talking about, after all). Instead, the mayor’s down by double digits in a recent poll to a candidate even further to Wheeler’s left.
Sarah Iannarone has declared “I am antifa” and recently made national headlines for wearing a skirt covered in the visages of Communist leaders from Stalin to Mao. As Portland’s Willamette Weekly recently described her:
Few have latched onto the energy of protest more than Iannarone, who has been on the front lines dozens of times, refers to herself as an “everyday anti-fascist,” and has declared, “I am Antifa.”
Iannarone—a neighborhood activist, policy wonk and longtime student of what makes cities succeed—hopes to defeat Wheeler, 58, who in turn hopes to become the city’s first two-term mayor since the late Vera Katz.
If Portlanders are fed up with Wheeler, Iannarone has a simple pitch for them: She hated Ted before it was cool. She’s relentlessly opposed him for four years. And she offers Portland a clean break from the string of white men who have run the city since Katz left office 15 years ago.
“The city deserves better than Ted Wheeler,” Iannarone says. “I have a real vision for Portland, and the reason I’ve pulled these policies together is because that’s what I see as our pathway out of this mess.”
Iannarone’s pathway includes a call for “rethinking public safety” by (among other things) cutting the funding to the Portland police, legalizing all sex workers, establishing supervised injection sites where drug addicts can shoot up under the watchful eyes of counselors, removing armed school resources officers from public schools, and :creating a “red flag registry and implementing a gun buyback program.”