I’d like to add to your recent excellent editorial discussing Portland City Council glitches, (“ Editorial: Pull it together, Portland City Council, ” Sept. 21). My main question is, how do we fix the fix?

To backtrack, nobody I know wanted a council of 12 members. The Portland Charter Commission referred an all-or-nothing bundle of changes for voters; it passed because people were afraid they wouldn’t get another chance to get rid of the city’s dysfunctional form of government.

No one I know wanted a drawing of districts that lumped a large part of Southeast Portland with the westside. But a pass-the-buck prior council appointed the Independent District Commission to do the work of drawing four new districts .

Another committee – the city-appointed salary commission - recommended t

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