Last year, Portland's city council passed the first municipal Voter-Owned Elections law. The city's big corporate players responded by spending almost $350K collecting petition signatures in an attempt to place a repeal before voters on the May 06 ballot. The supporters of the repeal effort make up a who's who of Portland corporate interests: Portland Business Alliance, Qwest, Portland General Electric, Comcast, etc.

And it now looks like they've failed!