Thanks to charter reform, Portland has flipped the way our government operates on its head, dumping our creaky, undemocratic commission form of governance, and replacing it with a brand spankin' new 12-person council representing four districts, WHILE ALSO slapping on ranked choice voting to boot!
By the filing deadline, we got a whopping 118 (!!) candidates running for the offices of council, mayor, and auditor. That's super good news for democracy, and very nearly put the itty-bitty Mercury staff IN OUR GRAVES.
We accomplished the task of spending the past year contacting and questioning all 118 candidates, studying their responses, doing our own research, whittling that list down to six candidates in each race who we personally interviewed and then ranked to give you the absolute best (and most reliable!) election endorsements in the city of Portland.
If you use our endorsements to fill out your ballot, would you please show your respect to us and our year of diligent work by contributing $5 to keep the Mercury alive, kicking, and writing even more endorsements in the future?
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