Despite all the things that have gone wrong, and boy have there ever been a lot of things that have gone wrong Mcfarlane sits smugly on his throne in control of a billion and a half dollars and dozens of middle level technocrats that do his every bidding. The public on the other hand has had just about enough of Mcfarlane and Trimet. (CLICK HERE)
The greatest testimony of Mcfarlanes failure is the public abandonment of the Trimet system at the exact same time ridership has gone steadily up in most of the country. (CLICK HERE)
Mcfarlanes iron fisted contempt for public criticism was exemplified by his perverting the criminal justice system to silence voices of dissent! (CLICK HERE)
Another major embarrassment for Mcfarlanes administration was when his staff was fined by a federal judge for withholding information. You surely don't see that happen very often (CLICK HERE)
But Mcfarlane has not been bad for everyone, especially his long time pals that he brought back to the agency for nice fat six figure salaries on top of their big fat pensions! (CLICK HERE)
But nothing comes close to the contempt that Mcfarlane has shown to the public than his secret raises. Raising Fares, cutting services, increasing the contingency budget for the sole purpose of giving himself and his cronies raises is the crowning achievement of arrogance of an oligarch who sits above the public and gets away with virtually anything (CLICK HERE)
So there we have it ladies and gentlemen, a man without ethics, without scruples, with greed that can barely be rivaled sitting firmly on the Trimet throne completely backed by the cronies that put him in power. (CLICK HERE)
I agree with each and every one of your points. You have nailed the facts and yet it seems that no one cares. I am very shocked at the lack of public out cry. If the public threw a fit and asked what's up he would be tossed under the bus. I just don't get what is going on in the publics mind that what he has done is ok. If the governor or senator had preformed this way would have been called out. I just am at a loss of what has happened to the smart people in the metro area. Portland is a major group here and you don't hear nothing from them.
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