Far-left Portland city council member Jo Ann Hardesty, who blames Portland's violent decline on white supremacy, was asked about the city's surging gun violence. She struggled to answer. She is polling double digits behind challenger Rene Gonzalez. During the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots, Hardesty successfully pushed for defunding police. She also spread a false conspiracy theory that police officers were behind the Antifa arson attacks. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/09/29/do-more-police-officers-mean-less-gun-violence-we-asked-city-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-and-opponent-rene-gonzalez/