Round Two: Randy Leonard Vs. Lents Neighbors — Why Lents May Be Cheering Today

Lents
We'll have more on the stadium deal, as KGW is reporting that Beavers owner Merritt Paulson is pulling his Lents stadium proposal, in a bit.
Commissioner Randy Leonard.
again
At the last minute, the vote was delayed until next week, June 25.
the effort
Leonard was heckled pretty intensely.
neither the poorest neighborhood in Portland nor the most dangerous.
"There's been a whisper campaign downtown and in City Hall about the Lents community,"
a poll of the audience revealed 70 percent of the several hundred people who had gathered saw absolutely no benefit to bringing the baseball stadium to Lents.)
"I am properly informed, and I am very, very against the stadium."
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