A Re-Vision of Portland that brings the love back.
Portlanders want a new vision rooted in safety, opportunity, accountability, and results.
Portland can still be a great city. But it has been led down the wrong path by people who stopped treating it like one.
We have watched public safety erode. We have watched small businesses struggle under rising taxes and hostile regulations. We have watched hundreds of millions of tax dollars disappear into unaccountable programs while the streets remain dangerous and the results never arrive. We have watched political gamesmanship put even our most iconic institutions — like the Trail Blazers — at risk.
This is not the Portland most of us moved here for, or the Portland we want to leave for our kids.
I am running for City Council in District 3 because I believe we can do better. Not with more ideology. Not with more empty promises. But with a clear, practical Re-Vision of what this city can and should be.
A City That Feels Safe Again. Public safety is the foundation of everything else. When people don’t feel safe walking their streets, taking their kids to the park, or opening their businesses, nothing else works.
My Re-Vision starts with restoring a real police presence on our streets. That means supporting the Enhanced Community Safety Initiative (Safer Portland) to move Portland toward two officers per 1,000 residents — without raising taxes. It means balanced enforcement, faster response times, and a City Hall that stands with families and taxpayers instead of treating disorder as inevitable.
A City Where Small Businesses Can Thrive. The people who take risks, hire their neighbors, and keep our commercial corridors alive are not the enemy. Yet for years, City Hall has treated them like ATMs — loading them with fees, taxes, and regulations while offering little support in return.
In my Re-Vision, Portland becomes a place that actively helps local job creators succeed. We cut the red tape. We stop the constant financial pressure. We treat entrepreneurs as partners in building a stronger city, not obstacles to an ideological agenda.
A City That Spends Tax Dollars Like We Matter. Portland-area leaders have directed well over a billion dollars into homelessness and related programs with shockingly little to show for it. Visible homelessness has risen. The streets remain dangerous. And far too much of the money has flowed through opaque nonprofits with no real accountability.
My Re-Vision demands transparency and results. Every tax dollar should be treated as if it belongs to the people who earned it. Because it does. That means forensic audits where needed, an end to blank-check spending, and a refusal to keep funding abject failure.
A City That Keeps Its Icons and Its Identity. The Portland Trail Blazers are more than a basketball team. They are part of what makes this city unique. They generate real economic activity and real civic pride. Risking their future through bad-faith negotiations and political posturing is the opposite of leadership.
In my Re-Vision, we negotiate in good faith, protect taxpayer interests, and keep Rip City in Portland for the long term. We stop treating success and identity as things to be bargained away.
A City With Elections People Can Trust. Ranked Choice Voting has made our elections more complicated, less transparent, and harder for ordinary voters to understand and trust. Portland has always been a proudly progressive city, but the current system has produced outcomes and processes that many residents feel disconnected from.
My Re-Vision includes restoring clarity and confidence to how we elect our leaders so that every Portlander’s voice counts simply and clearly.
What This Re-Vision Actually Looks Like
Streets that feel safer for families, seniors, and workers
Small businesses that stay open and grow instead of closing or leaving
Tax dollars that deliver measurable results instead of enriching a connected class of nonprofits
A City Council that fights for Portland’s long-term economic and cultural anchors
Government that is honest about trade-offs and focused on outcomes over ideology
“This is the basic standard of a city that loves its people.” - Matthias Hallett
We get there by electing people who will tell the truth about what is broken, stop protecting failed systems, and measure success by results on the ground, not by press releases, propaganda, or political loyalty.
How We Get There
“I am not running to manage decline. Vote for me if you want to completely reverse course.”