United for Portland is proud to endorse Eli Arnold for Portland City Council in District 4.
Eli is also endorsed by Portland Fire Fighters Association, Revitalize Portland Coalition, 12 for PDX, Future Portland, Portland Police Association, Western States Carpenters, IBEW 48, Teamsters No. 37, and many others.
We all agree: Eli will be a strong leader for the city of Portland.
The Willamette Week also endorsed Eli. Here’s what they had to say:
Are we really going to endorse a cop? You bet.
Eli Arnold has pedaled for five years as an officer in the Portland Police Bureau’s downtown bicycle squad. That’s given him a front-row Schwinn seat to observe how the city’s core has degraded. (And to let others know: Arnold proved himself a canny politician by giving news media outlets disaster tours of the city’s most blasted zones.)
Our hope is he’ll come prepared with a blueprint for disrupting the open-air drug use that now smothers neighborhoods like Goose Hollow. Arnold, 44, projects a calm demeanor honed as a first responder, and we suspect he and Zimmerman will serve as useful foils for the raft of liberals we’re endorsing in Districts 1 and 3.
Learn more about Eli Arnold at EliForPortland.com.
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