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  The Democrat Mayor of Portland has made plans to create pickleball courts, skate
  ramp, and bicycle track in a spot known for homeless camping.
  
  
  Mayor Ted Wheeler is turning Laurelhurst Park into a recreation ground - and within the space of
  24 hours, the homeless camp was removed and court equipment arrived at the scene. 
  
  Portland is running rampant with homelessness - and
  with a matter of days before people head to polling stations for the midterms, there is a
  chance the Dem-led city could vote Republican for the first time in 40 years.  
  
  The dozens of campers who called the park home were
  given a week's notice before they were removed from the
  site. 
  
  They were also given the option of going to a shelter, the Mayor's office said.
  
  
  Construction workers could be seen removing the tents that lined the street.
  
  
  A spokesperson for Portland Parks and Recreation said they've taken over management
  of the section of Oak Street to 'add park amenities to increase recreational opportunities
  for Portlanders.'
  
  It's unclear if this is a strategy to get rid of the number of vagrants in the area.  
  
  Annette Shaff-Palmer, who lives in the neighborhood, told KOIN:
  'I don't know if the perception to the public is that it's Laurelhurst and not everywhere else, that it's a solution just for this neighborhood instead of a bigger solution for all of homelessness
  in the city.'
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mayor Ted Wheeler is turning Laurelhurst Park into a recreational area, with pickleball
  courts, a skate ramp and bike track
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Homeless tents lining the streets ahead of the park, before they were removed
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Workmen are seen at  Laurelhurst Park in Portland after one of the homeless camps were removed
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Posters on the barriers to the park revealed the plans to turn the site into a place for locals to enjoy activities - such as pickleball and skating 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mayor Ted Wheeler (pictured) wanted to turn Laurelhurst Park into
  a recreation ground - and within the space of 24 hours, the homeless camp was removed and court equipment arrived at the scene. It's
  unclear if this is a strategy to get rid of the number of vagrants in the area
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Streets are now overrun with tent cities, littered with trash - and the issue is scaring away both locals and tourists
  
  
  Local resident Ben Chase told Fox 12: 'It's definitely been an issue
  that's been dragging on for a long time.
  
  'I've been wanting for this area to be cleaned up for a while now.' 
  
  Wheeler recently said he would ban the seven hundred unsanctioned homeless camps in the city,
  which have created a 'vortex of misery.'
  
  He has been blamed for crime skyrocketing, with Portland setting a record for murders las year when they reported 90 homicides - shattering
  the previous high of 66 - and could be about to surpass it this year. 
  
  Residents in Democrat-led Portland say the escalating crime and homelessness is not only affecting their way of life and safety, but also their vote next month
  which could potentially deliver Oregon's first Republican governor.
  
  
  Democrats have been in charge for four decades, but
  locals say they see that changing after crime, drug use and
  homelessness left the city in shambles.
  
  And the change could come at next week's election. 
  
  Christine Drazan, a pro-life, pro-gun rights Republican candidate, is in a dead heat to become the next governor of Oregon.
  
  Homelessness and crime in Portland exploded over the past
  two years since the civil unrest brought about by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. 
  
  Streets are now overrun with tent cities, littered with trash -
  and the issue is scaring away both locals and tourists. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Loretta Guzman, 52, an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock
  Native American tribes who owns Bison Coffee House, knows firsthand what it feels like to be
  a business owner in Portland, struggling with the city's issues. 
  
  'I've had people sleeping in my door entrance and starting fires in the middle of the night.
  
  
  I've had needles in front of my shop. I've had throw-up all over out there,' Guzman told the Washington Examiner. 
  
  'And I'm the one who has to come and clean it.'
  
  Guzman indicated that there has been talk of support for the Republican candidate Drazan and third party candidate
  Betsy Johnson. 
  
  The race is between Republican Christine Drazan and Democrat Tina Kotek, as well as third-party candidate Betsy Johnson.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dozens of homeless people had lived and set up camp in the
  Portland park
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A homeless man is seen next to tents, a shopping cart
  and stroller full of belongings and trash.
  
  
  Homeless encampments have been popping up along residential streets in several Portland neighborhoods
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tents crowd the sidewalk that is littered with trash from homeless communities
  setting up camp in areas spread from downtown Portland now out through
  the suburbs 
  
  
  Drazan has previously been vocal about her plans to declare an emergency if she were to win the office. 
  
  And Guzman said she thinks people are ready for a change.  
  
  'I think a lot of people are ready for change.
  
  And they feel that people have not listened to them or stood up
  for them,' she said. 'A lot of people don't feel safe right now.' 
  
  Guzman spoke to spoke to DailyMail.com last month after her business was vandalized by a group who apparently took
  issue with the small business's promotion of a 'Coffee with a Cop' event.
  
  
  She said police officials with the city had asked her to host
  a two-hour community event during which individuals could talk
  to officers.
  
  But, when she posted the event online with hashtags that
  included #positiveoutreach and #weliveforthefuture,
  her social media pages were bombarded with angry messages.
  
  
  
  Six cloaked figures later showed up with crowbars and hammers, according to surveillance
  footage at the Bison Coffeehouse in the Cully neighborhood.
  
  
  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D), who has had his fair share of
  interactions with the woke mobs who run his city, condemned the vandalism
  and said he will 'advocate for the prosecution to the fullest extent of the law
  - including potential federal hate crimes.'
  
  The Oregon city currently has more than 700 homeless encampments across the city within less than 150
  square miles, and the ordeal has also led to skyrocketing crime in the
  area. 
  
  And some of the most charming, trendy and expensive neighborhoods of
  the Pacific Northwest city are now overrun with tent cities crowding residential sidewalks and littered with trash - and the issue is scaring away both locals and tourists. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Portland's Democratic mayor has finally announced
  plans to shut down any unsanctioned homeless camps in the city - as a high number of squalid shanty towns and rising
  crime continues to plague the area
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Portland's Democratic mayor has finally
  announced plans to shut down any unsanctioned homeless camps
  in the city - as a high number of squalid shanty towns and rising crime continues to plague
  the area
  
  
  'I basically pull up here every morning and sort of hold my breath, hoping
  that no one's destroyed my porch and broken into
  my business,' Amanda Horne, the owner of Grindhouse Coffee, told the
  Washington Examiner.
  
  Horne's business has been hit repeatedly by vandals
  over the past two years, and said it because of a lack of policing. 
  
  'I know there are a lot of loyal people that are wanting Tina Kotek,' Horne added.
  
  
  
  'And then there's a lot of people who are not wanting her
  in because of her current seat, and things just haven't changed, and so I think it's kind of a gamble,
  honestly, at this point.'
  
  Diana Sapera, a social worker who has voted Democratic her
  entire life, told the a : 'It feels like night and day from even just this last year.' 
  
  Sapera added she thought she could back Kotek, but she couldn't do
  it.
  
  She cast her mail-in ballot for Drazan.
  
  'My kids, there are times they want to go to Portland
  and check out shops,' Sapera said 'Now, I don't feel comfortable doing that.
  My kids are scared, seeing grown adults yelling, hitting things,
  throwing things.
  They see needles and are like, 'What is that?'
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A homeless encampment is seen on a residential street in Portland earlier this year
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dozens of campervans and open air rampant drug use
  at of squalid shanty towns across Portland are causing locals to consider
  doing the unthinkable and voting Republican for the first time in 40 years
  
  
  Mayor Wheeler said last week that a large portion of
  the city's homeless population is dealing with mental health
  and drug issues, making the difficult situation even more complicated.
  
  
  'Collectively, this is a vortex of misery for all involved,' the mayor said Friday. 
  
  Social workers would be responsible for finding anyone living in campsites on the city's
  streets and directing them to the designated sites,
  the mayor said. 
  
  Should the individuals refuse to move, police could become
  involved. 
  
  In recent years, Portland has seen an alarming rise in homelessness. 
  
  In 2019, the city recorded just over 2,000 homeless individuals. 
  
  Less than three years later, that number has risen by 50 per cent, now at more
  than 3,000 living on the streets.  
  
  The city currently says there are more than 700 encampments in less than 150
  square miles. 
  
  Scott Kerman, executive director of Blanchet House, a Portland nonprofit that provides social services for people experiencing homelessness, said the plan 'has
  some positive elements' but that 'there remain a lot
  of unanswered questions and unknown details.'
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