A View From The Street©

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     30,521 is a number burned into my mind.  30,521 is the number of Multnomah County residents that voted for me for sheriff of Multnomah county.  The election ended May 31.  Had I won and if I could have taken office that day, we would now be 90 days into my administration.  Let me give you an idea of what would be happening right now in Multnomah County.

     By now I wold have worked every patrol shift, every jail shift, every shift on the river patrol and worked with every detective.  I would be well underway to a professional study of how the Sheriff's office should be economically staffed.  The study would be accurate because I would have worked the shifts.

     We'd have torn down some of the barbed wire at Wapato jail   The already existing class rooms, there to teach non-existing inmates GED, would now be class rooms teaching children.  The hospital would be treating the under served children and elderly, and the many dorms would be housing for the homeless.  How do I know?  Because I would open it with $30,000 of my own money.

     I wold interview every cop on the so-called inter agency drug team that didn't work for me. I would be working over their shoulder...and they would know it.

     All marijuana arrests would stop!! And all in progress drug investigations would be approved  by me.  Or not!

     The Patriot act would be gone.  Multnomah County would have the old constitution back. Homeland Security could have their damned speed boats back.  I think the SO got two of them.  We'd buy our own boats with the money we'd save by not arresting the same poor people over and over again.

     Can you say revolving jail door boys and girls?  Can you say treatment?

     Part of the initial funding for Wapato jail was for treatment.  I wanted to do it.  Meth addicts would be forced into treatment.   Remember the faces of Meth?  That's proof that arresting them over and over don't work  STOP IT!  TREAT IT!

     Tazers would be history in Multnomah County, by order of the high sheriff.  I would heed the call of Amnesty International to ban the damned things and no law enforcement agency would be allowed to use them.  Amnesty International would be invited to a ceremony where they would be destroyed.

     By now the county attorney at my direction would have filed a lawsuit against the police union in Multnomah County to end once and for all special justice for police.  The 14'th amendment requires "equal justice for all,"  not an internal affairs white wash that covers up all police wrong doing.   Have you ever wondered why no matter what cops seem to do they are always within their police department policy?  Cops that worked for me and screwed up, would have their hearings in council chambers in front of the tax payers that employ them...or they would be mowing the lawn at the jail on the graveyard shift!  No more special justice for cops!!

     By now, holistic progressive policies would would have begun in Multnomah County politics.  I would pressure, cajole, and harass if necessary county and city bureaucrats that make over $80,000 a year at the public trough to give back 25 or 30 thousand like I would.  What if all 5 county commissioners gave back 25 grand.  We'd have instant cash to unstick the stuck bureaucracy.  Oh yeah, the DEA would not be welcome in MC either.

     And finally one last thing.  The reason I left the cops was because they were running drugs and killing people.  This is not hearsay or rumor.  I have personal knowledge of it and nothing has changed.  Ask the new lady police chief why she won't investigate the murder of Zebedee Manning.  The corrupt cops will never investigate themselves.

     30,521 votes scared the hell out of them.  So what happens next?   I don't know.  Supporters please tell me.

Don DuPay

THE MEDIA IS MISSING. CALL THE COPS!

     Having written newspaper columns around this town for 15 years, I claim to be a reporter of the truth.  And having done nearly 200 cable access TV show here in the last several years I claim to have some experience at telling the truth on television and a following to prove it. (30,000 people voted for me in the Sheriff's election)  My point is that I have some experience in the Media.  And, when  you sit down, prop up your feet and open your newspaper, ( what ever newspaper) you have  some reasonable expectation of finding out what is going on.

     WRONG!

     You see these folks are not really in the business of disseminating the news.  They are in the business of selling newspapers to sell advertising.  The print media doesn't have "sound bites" they have catchwords, hot button phrases, like "gay" or "marijuana," but is there any news in there?  Let me share my recent experience's with the Oregonian, Willamette Week, The Portland
Tribune, the Mercury, papers that many of you look to for news.

     Willamette Week was the first paper to talk to me when I ran for Sheriff.  I spent an hour talking to four of their reporters, explaining my ideas about community policing, getting rid of tazers, getting rid of the swat team style uniforms, creating a Wapato Treatment center, giving back $30,000 of my salary to social services, things folks that watch my tv show hear me say all the time.  "Thank you  Mister DuPay for coming in," they said, and "by the way  what kind of a car do you drive"?

     What they printed was that I was a 69 year old marijuana smoking grandfather with a "cult"
following from the Cannabis Common Sense TV show.  Is that all those four reporters heard?  W Week went on to endorse a write in candidate unqualified to take office.  Is there is any responsible journalism there?

     My next encounter was with the Oregonian.  You know their slogan, "If it is important to Oregonians, it's in the Oregonian"?

     I talked to two of their people, David Reinhardt and Steve Bevins, & gave them my spiel.  Reinhardt looked me up and down and said you can't be serious about this are you"?  I'm not sure what HE was expecting.  I found him to the the square box stuffed shirt I always thought him to be.  His editorial opinion is of little value and he seems to be clueless about what goes on outside the Oregonian building.  Steve Bevins, wanted me to turn over my personnel file from the police department and was insulted when I refused.  I explained that there wouldn't be anything good about me from the corrupt police department I left.   What the Oregonian wrote was that I was a 69 year old with a "fondness" for marijuana.  Did the Oregonian readers learn a thing about my platform?  I guess is was not important to Oregonians.  They endorsed a failed and expensive jail system and a failed and expensive Sheriff.

     The Mercury ignored me.  Thank you for that.  I consider them sleazy.  They also endorsed the unqualified write in candidate.  More  responsible journalism there I see!!!

     The Portland Tribune was the kindest to me, largely because of my friendship with columnist Phil Stanford.  He kept my name in the public eye and wrote about the still unsolved execution murder of Zebedee Manning, trying to tease he cold case detectives into investigating .  They won't.  They won't investigate themselves.  So much for the new female police chief and frankly I'm non plussed by the fact that the black community isn't more outraged  by the cover up.

     No one from the local TV stations called me.  They did not seek to find out about me, and that is what their TV viewers learned about me.  NOTHING!  So much for the channel 6, 8 and 12 "news teams."

     Where did you learn abut me?  On  community television I was lucky enough to talk to people with out commercial interruption.  (I did not seek support from any organization.  Only the voters) I was invited on the independent Producers Show.  I was invited on the Jim Lockhart show.  I was invited on theBrouce Broussard Voter's Digest show.  I was invited on the Oregon Norml show.  I was invited on Public broadcasting radio to talk to seniors.  I was invited on KBOO public radio.  The Cannabis Common Sense show plays and replays with my ideas for a better law enforcement system.

     I hope you better understand why the government wants to gut/cut funding for public access across America. 

    THAT IS WHERE AMERICANS HEAR THE TRUTH.

     In this media I have nothing to sell...only truth to tell.