This weekend I happened across an ad on The World website linking to the BS Oregon website. The ad, pictured here, asks the question, “Should Jordan Cove pay for our kids’ schools or Portland’s?” 
The debate has definitely devolved when anyone stoops to using our kids against other people’s kids, particularly when our schools are 76% funded by other people’s kids.
Proponent of the CEP (community enhancement plan) and the SCCF (South Coast Community Foundation) component definitely don’t want to share the Jordan Cove spoils, leaving only 25% for the taxing districts and putting the rest into two private nonprofits. Still, are they so desperate as to create a villain out of the rest of Oregon’s school children?
Admittedly, I am opposed to the privatization of public money but I found the ad offensive in the extreme. It smacks of class warfare on the one hand implying Portland is rich and its schools well funded while we are poor and underprivileged. On the other hand it lacks scruples, pitting our poor children against those elite kids in the big city. Ugh!
THIS is what you get when you hire a hot-shot Economic Hit Man like Mr. Bhoogher, or whatever, from Washington DC to do your dirty business. The man has no stake in this, getting paid a pretty penny which allows him a life of luxury, while we pick up the tab. When you do what you do for money, you don’t really give a rats’ arse about those people harmed by your boss. But these ‘Yahoos’ Mr. Bhoogher, are fighting to stay here, where their families have been for 3 or more generations. They deserve the truth, they deserve a shot at The American Dream. They will get neither from the ‘work’ you’re doing here in Coos Co. You are much more educated than I am, so about all I can say to you Mr. Bhoogher and the horse you rode in on, is :
Shame On You.
Every word my personal opinion only.
BS, funded by Jordan Cove money, like SCCF, a secret to nobody, who some months ago told us that they were out of money and then started running half and full page ads in The World, has been running this ad for some time. Offensive is an understatement. Soon the people of Oregon are going to be told that its their state port and its their tax money that SCCF is grabbing. Then the new Republican governor can fix this mess and Kitzhaber can spend more time finding $250 million to repay the state for his Cover Oregon fiasco.