KBOO Loons vote for Nicholas Caleb
May 19, 2014 11:35:10 GMT -8
Post by I See Loonies on May 19, 2014 11:35:10 GMT -8
Who's Caleb? An Occupy activist running for city council:
theportlandalliance.org/
Nicholas Caleb is a former Occupy activist who is running for City Council in Portland, Ore. Inspired by the victory of Kshama Sawant in Seattle, his campaign is based on growing the movement for a $15 minimum wage and other struggles across the city.
Caleb is well known to the Kbots, interviewed by Ani:
Positively Revolting
6 March · Edited ·
Here in Cascadia it's water, water everywhere .... but what is exactly is happening to our precious resource? The People's Water Trust initiative is a ballot measure asking " Shall Portland establish public water rights benefiting residents and local ecology with duties of transparency and accountability " up for a vote in November.
Positively Revolting will discuss this issue with Nick Caleb, attorney, Professor at Concordia University and one of the authors of this measure to talk about why we would want it. Please join us for a lively conversation at 8 am on KBOO Community Radio. Call in with your questions or comments at
503-231-8187.
6 March · Edited ·
Here in Cascadia it's water, water everywhere .... but what is exactly is happening to our precious resource? The People's Water Trust initiative is a ballot measure asking " Shall Portland establish public water rights benefiting residents and local ecology with duties of transparency and accountability " up for a vote in November.
Positively Revolting will discuss this issue with Nick Caleb, attorney, Professor at Concordia University and one of the authors of this measure to talk about why we would want it. Please join us for a lively conversation at 8 am on KBOO Community Radio. Call in with your questions or comments at
503-231-8187.
Covered at KBOO in 2012:
kboo.fm/node/34217
This from occupypdx.org:
1000 PORTLANDERS MARCH AGAINST AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL,
LEADING NATIONWIDE PROTESTS
February 29, 2012
By opdxjohns
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Today Portlanders joined over seventy cities across the nation to target corporations and legislators involved in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Portland’s march – which included nearly 200 yellow “ALEC Exposed” umbrellas, many colorful banners and a 50 foot anti-corporate wave – visited offices of many ALEC members, including ExxonMobil, McDonalds, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Verizon, FedEx, Taco Bell, Walgreens, Shell, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. Responding to a national call from Occupy Portland, this is the Occupy Movement’s largest coordinated action this
year, confronting ALEC corporations in the cities in which they do business throughout the nation.
“We took action today to challenge ALEC, a group made up of the world’s largest corporations, as well as many state and federal politicians. ALEC writes legislation focused on amassing more profit for the wealthiest 1% at the expense of our communities,” said Nicholas Caleb of Occupy Portland.
1000 PORTLANDERS MARCH AGAINST AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL,
LEADING NATIONWIDE PROTESTS
February 29, 2012
By opdxjohns
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Today Portlanders joined over seventy cities across the nation to target corporations and legislators involved in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Portland’s march – which included nearly 200 yellow “ALEC Exposed” umbrellas, many colorful banners and a 50 foot anti-corporate wave – visited offices of many ALEC members, including ExxonMobil, McDonalds, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Verizon, FedEx, Taco Bell, Walgreens, Shell, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. Responding to a national call from Occupy Portland, this is the Occupy Movement’s largest coordinated action this
year, confronting ALEC corporations in the cities in which they do business throughout the nation.
“We took action today to challenge ALEC, a group made up of the world’s largest corporations, as well as many state and federal politicians. ALEC writes legislation focused on amassing more profit for the wealthiest 1% at the expense of our communities,” said Nicholas Caleb of Occupy Portland.
Caleb also networks on Facebook with Kbots and their loony friends like
Alex Baretech aka a_cascadian
who invented the Cascadian flag and helped Theresa Mitchell spread foil hat "we're gonna be nuked" lunacy in 2007:
web.archive.org/web/20070528095832/http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363204.shtml
And Joe Walsh/Lone Vet
who's much more direct about blaming Israel for all of our problems..or at least protesting with people who blame Jews:
operationfreespeech.boards.net/thread/264
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=373760346049675&set=pb.100002471376240.-2207520000.1400523653.&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-frc3%2Ft1.0-9%2F303891_373760346049675_1134634039_n.jpg&size=640%2C360
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=373759809383062&set=pb.100002471376240.-
2207520000.1400523653.&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-prn1%2Ft1.0-9%2F74071_373759809383062_1014886105_n.jpg&size=640%2C360
Caleb has some loony likes as well, Filmthepolice.com,
an organization founded by Mike Smith,
a close friend of a Holocaust denier clown Tim Titrud.
media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2012/05/415585.jpg
rosecityantifa.weebly.com/home/category/tim%20titrud
Readers can go to RCA and OPP to learn more about the David Irving speech
Mike Smith attended.
rosecityantifa.weebly.com/home/october-15th-2012
www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php/news/us/168-portland-oregon-says-david-irving-not-welcome
Even Indymedia if it ever gets back online.
portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/11/420228.shtml
portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/07/392889.shtml
Caleb also buys into the anti-fluoride conspiracy,
making it a mystery why the Mercury endorsed him, since the Mercury has a kick ass debunking of the whole Fluoride Conspiracy.
www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-sanest-arguments-against-
fluoride/Content?oid=9212701
Gosh, Caleb either has a lot of bad luck connecting with loons or is a loon himself. It's great to be all for raising the minimum wage, but it irreverent if Caleb is ineffective because he's incapable of vetting his network contacts or doing critical research. Like um if what he's proposing
is legally viable:
www.blueoregon.com/2014/05/caleb-or-saltzman-saltzman/
In part, credit should go to Caleb, who borrowed a page from a Seattle City Council race in focusing on raising the minimum wage to $15 for Portland. As raised early on, that would actually be counter to Oregon law, which preempts local jurisdictions from raising their wage floor higher
than the statewide wage,
than the statewide wage,
Of course for Caleb supporters, this will all be signs of a conspiracy...they're already off to a good start:
www.blueoregon.com/2014/05/caleb-or-saltzman/
While blasting Saltzman for being "store bought", the article lauds Caleb's "retail politics", which apparently means being endorsed by some east Portland businesses: calebforcouncil.com/east-portland-businesses-endorse-caleb-for-council-15-now/
Which is fine, but they are stores too. WWeek and Oregonian are using the same "playbook":
www.wweek.com/portland/article-22478-don%E2%80%99t_piss_it_away.html?current_page=8
The challengers in his bid for a fifth term both tack hard from the left. Nicholas Caleb is the most polished. A part-time Concordia University instructor, he’s made a $15-an-hour minimum wage the central plank of his campaign. He should have checked the law, however: Increasing the minimum
wage is not something the Portland City Council can do without permission from the state Legislature. He exhibits a utopian impracticality that’s already too prevalent in City Hall.
wage is not something the Portland City Council can do without permission from the state Legislature. He exhibits a utopian impracticality that’s already too prevalent in City Hall.
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/05/its_fish_and_saltzman_in_portl.html
His challengers – journalist-physicist Joe Meyer, lawyer-teacher Nick Caleb and community-focused Leah Marie Dumas – all bring public-mindedness to their candidacies but lack the experience that
would make them immediately effective.
would make them immediately effective.
Pete needs to lay off the medical marijuana. There's nothing sinister or exaggerated about these criticisms. In fact they're soft balls compared to what can be found about Caleb.
Caleb has an account at Blue Oregon,
www.blueoregon.com/author/nicholas-caleb/
but appears to have abandoned the Blues for the fringe conspiracy "radical" crowd. And he's one of the 55 people left who still support Jefferson Smith for stalker, er, Mayor,
even after Jefferson tried to first lie, about then intimidate a woman into silence:
www.wweek.com/portland/blog-29290-police_report_and_vi.html
Caleb sure can pick em. Does he know his KBOO supporters ran a woman out of a job by spreading vicious lies about her on the Internet? Most of the evidence is still on Theresa Mitchell's blog: savekboo.org .
The rest can be found search Theresa Mitchell Lynn Fitch .
Maybe Caleb really does care about raising the minimum wage. But having aligned himself with political fruit loops, he proves he's either a novice at politics or he himself has an agenda counter to the public good.