After 3 years, sharp-elbowed advocacy group People for Portland closes shop

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People for Portland, the brash political advocacy group that raised millions of dollars in what it billed as an effort to jolt the city out of its post-pandemic haze by throwing sharply critical elbows at flailing politicians, is disbanding, its co-founders told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

“We feel like we’ve done our job,” longtime Democratic political consultant Kevin Looper said in an interview Thursday. “We started this thing at a time when people were talking about defunding the police and saying ‘All cops are bad, no one has a right to tell people where to sleep and hard drugs are good and we don’t have a right to tell people they shouldn’t be using them on our streets.’”

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