Portland’s mayor has come around on the city’s violence. Will the governor?

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Kate Brown, Oregon’s Democratic governor, has been recently urging her constituents to do their part in preventing forest fires. Those seem to be the only fires she cares to stop.

Brown has had little to say about continuing violence and destruction in Portland. She and Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler spent much of late July trying to blame President Trump and federal officers protecting the courthouse for the assaults on peace, even though the violence predated federal presence in Portland by nearly two months.

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