Ostensibly, it was important to drag this along to a "town hall" session to talk housing policy, and as you might expect:
If a housing policy talk sounds like a sedate happening, you haven't been in Portland long.
Though far away from her Detroit congressional district, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib ended up vowing to block traffic to prevent the Rose City from spending public dollars on a new sports stadium during an affordable housing crisis, calling it a "terrible, really bad idea."
"I know they're going to try to gaslight you. 'Oh my god, we're going to go somewhere else.' Then go — Bye. — See you," the congresswoman said. "Trust me. Give them ten years. They're going to push you out and take your homes and take your parks and take your schools when you're not looking."
Tlaib's Michigan district is third-poorest in the nation, and she said housing was just one intersection of her vision for anti-poverty programs, investment in health care and education and a Green New Deal.
"It feels so incredibly awesome when it's The Squad and Earl that is voting no on the defense bill," she said. "One aircraft carrier, get rid of one, and we can actually end homelessness."
Send it back home (and I don't mean Michigan; deport it). Maybe it can take Bluemanure with it.
Better yet, let them come back here and block traffic, preferably in east Portland - the drivers there hold the city record for fatal collisions with non-drivers.