Lars Larson: Kotek tries to buy election with $300M of your $$

By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

Let’s call out Governor Tina Kotek’s big election-year lie right here, right now.

Any day of the week, the Governor elected with stolen cryptocurrency will tell you her government is critically short on cash to serve citizens’ needs.

Yet she just signed a deal promising to use taxpayer money to fix up a basketball arena owned by a billionaire.

Kotek’s signature promises more than one-third of a billion dollars to renovate the MODA Center, currently home to the Portland Trailblazers, but maybe not for long.

Less than two years ago, the failed and now former Mayor of Portland, trust-fund-kid Feckless Ted Wheeler, agreed to buy MODA for a dollar.

That was colossally stupid. It put Portland on the hook for the fix-up.

The Blazers have threatened to leave the city altogether without this taxpayer gift.

Kotek’s in re-election trouble, with labor unions abandoning her candidacy and polls showing her support dropping fast, even in the liberal stronghold of Portland.

So Kotek plans to use YOUR cash to buy her way to a win in November.

Alternatively, if MODA’s owner doesn’t get the taxpayer gift, Kotek becomes the woman who sent the Blazers packing…virtually guaranteeing her loss.