Stan Pulliam, 40, is serving his second term as mayor of Sandy, Oregon, his hometown of roughly 10,000 people approximately 27 miles east of Portland. In the crowded field of 19 people vying to become Oregon’s first Republican governor in 35 years, he is still one of the leading candidates ahead of the May 17 primary.
On April 30, the resource-strapped Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reportedly took more than 20 minutes to react to an emergency call after masked, black-clad members of Antifa allegedly attacked Pulliam’s campaign event only blocks from police headquarters in downtown Portland.
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By the time officers had “sufficient resources” to establish a crime scene near Southwest 3rd and Main Street, the demonstrators had already dispersed after hurling smoke grenades, paint-filled balloons, and fireworks, according to police. Two were injured by “mortars,” police announced.
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Pulliam noted how Oregon’s largest city has gone from being somewhere he once enjoyed visiting for baseball games and Saturday markets to where he is afraid to take his two young daughters.
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“Portland always had this slogan: ‘Keep Portland Weird,’” Pulliam stated. “And that was kind of funny, and people thought it was kind of fun. But it’s not funny anymore. It’s now dangerous.”
Portland began to see a mass homelessness problem and an uptick in crime even before COVID-19, Pulliam explained, yet the problems have increased in the wake of the shutdowns over the past two years.
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“The homeless crisis has only grown, and of course we had the 100 nights of riots after the murder of George Floyd,” he stated. “And it’s just really been chaos and mayhem ever since.”
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Pulliam regards Portland’s problems as symptomatic of larger cultural issues afflicting the entire country because of widespread initiatives to defund the police and go soft on criminals. He stressed how he drove by a local mall and saw a young kid crossing the street carrying many clothes with the tags still on them.
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“He didn’t have a fear in the world on his face because he knew if I called 911, it would be at least 20 minutes until I got an operator. It would be several hours until the police arrived, and even if they did, they would write him a citation at best.”
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