{"id":3235,"date":"2005-04-26T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/26\/the-incompetance-of-tom-potter\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T19:57:36","slug":"the-incompetance-of-tom-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/26\/the-incompetance-of-tom-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"The incompetence of Tom Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat kind of a mayor would include the ACLU in discussions of terrorism but exclude his chief of police? Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/front_page\/1114509508206040.xml&#038;coll=7\">Portland mayor Tom Potter, of course:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When Portland Mayor Tom Potter, federal law enforcement leaders and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union sat down earlier this month to try to find a way to keep Portland in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, one person was noticeably absent: Police Chief Derrick Foxworth.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t invited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even for a haven of silliness like Portland this is too much. Some folks need to give this fool a piece of their minds at the council meeting Thursday night.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of a mayor would include the ACLU in discussions of terrorism but exclude his chief of police? Why Portland mayor Tom Potter, of course: When Portland Mayor Tom Potter, federal law enforcement leaders and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union sat down earlier this month to try to find a way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/26\/the-incompetance-of-tom-potter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The incompetence of Tom Potter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Qb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}