I'm amazed, well maybe I shouldn't be after watching Sam and friends in action all these years but naming a street in PDX for Chavez just seems goofy. Portland needs to stop bending over for these ridiculous groups with no agenda but to rename streets nation wide. What's the real net cost of that??? What about Pot Holes, Schools, Roads and Bridges??? All this angst for what? To honor a guy who never set foot in Portland as far as I know?. Yes I drink Pinot Noir, and I have lived south of Oregon and have clients in Latin America. So name a street in Dundee after the man. I have no issue with Chavez, but I know Oregon and I really wonder why we don't name a street after someone who came from China and help build the Rail system, better yet why not streets named after the Chinook Indians who lived here long ago and farmed, or some of the great African Americans that made portland great besides MLK, or the Japanese who built so many of our great agricultural areas before we blew that up in WWii?

Better yet why not require the group who want's to name a street, raise the money to support the process. The fact that my taxes are going to support this effort makes me sick and I live in the highest tax bracket in town... Fairmont Blvd SW.

Shame on Sam!.