SAME-SAME BUT DIFFERENT JULES BAILEY AND TED WHEELER ANSWER NW LABOR PRESS

Same-Same or Different Issue Bailey Wheeler

Same Lift state ban on city minimum wage

“Absolutely.” “Absolutely.”

Same Portland minimum wage should be …

$15 an hour, phased in $15 an hour. But, maybe not really—regarding part-time city employees: “I want to see the budgetary impacts before we bump those up to $15 an hour.”

Same Columbia River Crossing “I supported that project moving forward.” “I supported the project, but my job was to evaluate the financial underpinnings of the project.”

Double Dodge Pembina DODGE Criticized Mayor Hales, but mostly DODGE

Double Dodge West Hayden Island DODGE Seems to support development, but mostly DODGE

Double Dodge Trans Pacific Partnership DODGE Seems to support, but mostly DODGE

Same City ban on moving/store carbon-based fuels

“I don’t support coal and oil export.” “I would have supported it [the vote].”

Same Labor relations “I think Labor Relations needs to report to the mayor.”

“HR should be reporting directly to the mayor.”

N/A Unionization of park rangers Favors card check NOT ASKED

Double Dodge Uber/Lyft/ridesharing DODGE DODGE

Same Gas tax “I strongly support enacting a temporary gas tax increase.”

“I support a Portland gas tax.”

Same Shift scheduling regulations DODGE, but seems to support “I would be supportive of efforts to take action.”

Maybe Same New taxes affordable housing “New revenue fund” for affordable housing “The city needs to either increase its funding or find new sources of funding for the construction,

Same-Same or Different Issue Bailey Wheeler

purchase or the rehab of affordable housing.”

N/A Housing “One day permitting” Mostly DODGE

Same Inclusionary zoning “Yeah I strongly support it.” “I’m absolutely in favor. I’ve been in favor of that previously. I’m in favor of it now.”

N/A Rent control DODGE “Rent control is not as effective as some of these other tools.”

N/A City divestment strategy (Walmart, carbon-based fuels)

DODGE NOT ASKED

N/A Ban the box NOT ASKED “I passed the first ‘ban the box’ policy in the state of Oregon”

Prepared by Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Source: NW Labor Press

https://nwlaborpress.org/2016/01/portland-mayoral-candidate-jules-bailey-on-questions-that-matter-to-working-people/ https://nwlaborpress.org/2016/01/portland-mayoral-candidate-ted-wheeler-on-questions-that-matter-to-working-people/