A last-minute campaign expenditure that caught our eye was the $16,000 that Multnomah County Commission candidate Judy Shiprack loaned her own campaign on Oct. 23.
That’s curious given that Shiprack, who defeated former county staffer Mike Delman in the race to represent District 3, is still negotiating with the Portland Development Commission to repay $1.8 million in taxpayer money from a bungled Old Town condo project.
Shiprack told WW the money she gave to her campaign, and the money owed to PDC, are totally unrelated. She flatly denied that she’s responsible for the PDC debt that she’s spent years avoiding paying back.
“The PDC debt is not to me personally. There is no personal connection to that. It is not a personal debt,” Shiprack said. “I am not responsible. This is where you are just wrong. I am not personally responsible for any indebtedness to the Portland Devlopment Commission.”
Someone might want to tell that to the PDC. They still believe Shiprack is going to repay the public money the agency loaned to the nonprofit she headed, for the condo project she managed.
Shiprack met recently with PDC officials and the signals were positive, PDC spokesman Shawn Uhlman says.
“She reached out to PDC very recently and said ‘However this all plays out, I want to get things moving again,’ ” Uhlman said.
But he said there was no timeline set for paying back the five-year-old debt.
“I don’t think they’ve got even to that level of detail yet,” Uhlman said. “But it is encouraging.”
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She’s right. She’s not the owner of the project and it isn’t her personal debt.
You’re implying that she’s not correct, but of course you’re not saying it, because she’s right and you’re wrong.