It’s been 40 days since we interviewed Jasun Wurster, the head honcho behind the grassroots effort to recall Mayor Sam Adams. Since then I estimate that he’s been called about 7,291 different derogatory names, interviewed by 1,938 journalists, and left an impression of some sort on at least 348,102 people. Granted, it’s rough math to say the least but most of us don’t achieve even 1% of those numbers in our lives. So, I’ve decided that when I grow up, I want to be just like Jasun.
Why? Every one of us has seen the movie where the man with the odds stacked against him takes on the establishment. If Portland were a movie (instead of a lame TV show on TNT), Jasun Wurster would be that man. Jasun is a man of action while the rest of us sit around and debate nearly everything about him except the very thing he’s at odds with. Jasun takes it to the streets and makes an effort to empower the people while the rest of us sit in front of our all-too-expensive laptops and discuss just how much of a homophobic creep he must be. Jasun never stoops to name calling or expletives, the rest of us create new expletives just to describe Jasun.
Jasun Wurster is the next generation action hero.
Almost every day for the past 40 days I’ve received at least one email about Jasun Wurster. Anonymous people from anonymous places try to do their best to convince me that Jasun is evil, that he represents hate and intolerance, that he has a much bigger agenda. All the while the system attempts to grind him down, tire him out, shut him up.
And yet Jasun Wurster is still around.
You can’t grind down Jasun Wurster.
Jasun Wurster is Portland’s own Chuck Fucking Norris.
Love him or hate him, with him or against him, Jasun Wurster is kicking our asses and showing us how it’s done. No matter what happens, he belongs on a t-shirt. Most of us will never kick the city in the ass the way Jasun has, but Jasun has at least proven that we could if we tried.
When I grow up I want to be just like Jasun Wurster. But in the meantime, I’ll settle for a Jasun Wurster lunchbox.
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Go Jasun! Fight evil crime!
Proactive superheroism is sexy!
DemocracyMan slaying the lying breathing dragons. You’re next Randy Leonard!