that each one of them has bottled water at the council meetings.
I come from an area with very bad water. Don't the people here have any idea (or respect, which is probably more important) how good they've got it? It's too bad that they don't. Water is life. Ask any astrophysicist.
Want the population of Portland to become docile and stupid. That way they don't have to explain their incompetent actions to enrich themselves at the public trough.