2012 Portland Mayor's race

Says Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and "one of the most obvious differences is they've invested in their schools."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, July 27th, 2012

Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six "front-line" workers.

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, May 25th, 2012

Says "I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Says the mayor’s job "is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don’t have, we don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Says we could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir.

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Says  "I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Say that under state law, "systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Says she is co-owner of Celilo Group Media.

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Says "I worked with our Mayor and other commissioners to help save the school year when a budget crisis in Salem threatened to cut four weeks of the school year," including  negotiating with teachers to work for free.

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, April 27th, 2012

Says "at the state level we're spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety, health care and education combined."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Says "streetcars carry more people than buses … you attract more riders who don't ride transit now, and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Says "we got a chance to pass what I think is Oregon's first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Says she "brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Says if elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, November 4th, 2011

Says "Many people I’ve talked to are angry that because of City Hall inaction we may have to spend a needless $500 million to cover and treat our pure drinking water."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, October 21st, 2011

"When I served as City Commissioner, we made great strides …we successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, July 29th, 2011