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Portland Advocates for Lead-free Drinking Water
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Accidental watchdogs |

Portland Water: “Convincing the Public Drinking Water is Safe” for decades…

📌even as it isn’t |

“This is worse than Flint”:

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/08/oregon-wants-quick-fix-to-high-lead-levels-in-portlands-water
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In case anyone missed it, this City Administrator implements his own budget :
oregonlive.com 凸 Subscribe く POLITICS Portland's highest salaried city employee gets 3rd raise in a year amid looming layoffs, cuts Updated: Feb. 20, 2025, 7:10 p.m. | Published: Feb. 20, 2025, 12:44 p.m. Portland City Administrator Michael Jordan, who reports to Mayor Keith Wilson, oversees the city's day-to-day operations.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Wilson alongside (most powerful) City Administrator, Mike Jordan
oregonlive.com 凸 Subscribe く POLITICS Portland's highest salaried city employee gets 3rd raise in a year amid looming layoffs, cuts Updated: Feb. 20, 2025, 7:10 p.m. | Published: Feb. 20, 2025, google.com J • Workforce and bureaus: The City Administrator leads and manages the city's workforce and oversees numerous bureaus, with oversight of deputy city administrators who lead specific
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Leavitt needs to “go back to where she came from” and…

work her family’s ice cream stand or used truck dealership.
^ Early life Saint Anselm College, where Leavitt studied (pictured in 2010) Karoline Claire Leavitt. was born on August 24, 1997, in Atkinson, New Hampshire. 2. She was born as the third and youngest child 2! to Bob and Erin Leavitt. 3] Her family owns an ice cream stand in Atkinson and her father owns a used truck dealership in Plaistow.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Beautiful photo of Grey Wolfe, pedestrian killed by a car in Portland Oregon
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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includes lying by omission!
lying by omission is a manipulation of the truth often used to cover up mistakes or avoid uncomfortable conversations. "It's like telling half the story, with the missing half being crucial to understanding the entire picture,"
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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icymi:

Portland Water Bureau has been hiding improperly treated water & remaining lead pipes…for years.

You cannot taste lead in water.

At least data doesn’t lie: www.ewg.org/tapwater/
Data shows Seattle and other region neighbors have limited lead, while Portland engineers have not, knowingly and by design. Seattle has similar plumbing and water source. (But Seattle Public Utility has controlled lead leaching, per federal law requirements)* *The SDWA/Lead and Copper Rule Regulation
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Decent human beings don’t bury their Bureau’s water lead crises…

You paved the way for another coverup of excessive lead in🚰, exposing thousands - esp babies & vulnerable customers - to toxic lead!

WE ARE THANKFUL for the inter/national experts who told us the truth, as our own official lied.🤥
OPB Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB https://www.opb.org Testing shows elevated lead levels in some Portland drinking water Nov 30, 2021 - Out of 104 homes tested, 14 had lead-in-water levels above 15 parts per billion. That's the level at which the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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2 fine cappuccinos at Proud Mary cafe in Portland Oregon
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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CA: “Budgetary crises”

Also CA:
oregonlive.com POLITICS Portland's highest salaried city employee gets 3rd raise in a year amid looming layoffs, cuts. Updated: Feb. 20, 2025, 7:10 p.m. | Published: Feb. 20, 2025,
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Admin Jordan has “institutional knowledge”….and the newbie-pol/mayor Wilson asked him to stay longer.

Mayor Wilson earns $175,463/yr

Admin Jordan earns $312,500/yr
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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@alexzee.bsky.social, can u dig deeper into who actually wanted her out?

“The city administrator gave vague reasoning for Helmi Hisserich’s abrupt exit.”

Hisserich’s boss is City administrator Mike Jordan; old-govt, long-entrenched,wm

WHY didn’t he support an educated, knowledgeable visionary?
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Portland City Administrator’s job description includes hiring & firings aka resignations w/ severance: “Workforce and bureaus: The Administrator leads and manages the city's workforce and oversees numerous bureaus, with oversight of deputy city administrators who lead specific bureaus”
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“Last month, City Administrator Michael Jordan announced that Hisserich was on paid administrative leave…”

“[Jordan shared] little else … publicly about her departure.”

#NoTransparency
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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yet paid handsomely ($312,500!)

He did get into UO on a baseball scholarship…so there’s that🙃
POLITICS “Portland's highest salaried city employee gets 3rd raise in a year amid looming layoffs, cuts..”
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM