Sanderson is well-known as an advocate against a proposed Portland street tax. She's a small business owner, proprietor of Odango! Hair Salon on Woodstock.

00:18On checking out art as she’s knocking campaigning
“I started an Instagram account just to collect all the little pieces of art people have in their yards.”

01:17 On her vision for Portland’s future
“I’ve lived here for 23 years… I knew Portland before it was built up and gentrified… we’re going through some growing pains. And we’re going to have to handle them in ways that are mindful.”

03:00On the city’s contributions to RACC
“I think we could do more to fund tiny operations. Encouraging artists who are small scale is also good.”

04:40On how RACC distributes city funds
"There’s only a couple of us running for office that are as far east as I am. We don’t see enough out there, certainly.”

0550 On that should be done with Portland’s budget surpluses
“If you take the back of a napkin and list the things we owe money on, there is huge debt coming onto us. We need to get not hat sooner rather than later. Should we be saying that this [art] is a separate fund or should we be integrating art into everything we do?”

07:35On whether she’d welcome a chance to supervise the city’s arts portfolio.
“I think that would be great! However I think it would be possible to have that connection to art in any bureau. We can incorporate artists and the way they think and look at the world, into what we’re doing no matter what bureau I’m in charge of.”

09:55On housing solutions
“We can’t build ourselves out of this…I think we’ve missed the boat on creative solutions like tiny houses. I’m not sure why we don’t have a way to streamline permitting and abatement of taxes to increase the ADUs in our backyards.”

12:20 On incentives in the commercial real estate market
"A lot of the new permitting going on is mixed use. We’re going to have mixed use in many neighborhoods where it wasn’t there before. How can we have some of that commercial space be affordable as well?”

15:10 On Portland’s arts tax
“I'm not anti-tax, I’m anti-stupid tax. The arts tax was badly designed, badly implemented. When you want to hold up something about the city that doesn’t work, if you are anti-tax, then you hold up the arts tax.”

18:24 On whether Portland is losing its soul
“I was feeling really disconnected from my city for a while…But campaigning I fell in love with Portland again. If I get elected, I’m just going to keep knocking on doors.”

2045On why East Portland embodies what she wants to work on, if elected
“When I talk to people in Brentwood-Darlington who say they feel they haven’t been heard in years, they’re my neighbors. East Portland is not a check-box you pay attention to during elections… We could incentivize remodeling, keeping older buildings in place.”