Seven Portland city councilors are facing allegations that they broke state transparency rules amid recent revelations that six members communicated regularly over a private text message thread and potentially coordinated privately with a seventh member during a contentious budget vote.
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission says it’s received more than a dozen complaints accusing the councilors — Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy, Mitch Green, Sameer Kanal, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Angelita Morillo and Steve Novick — of violating Oregon’s public meetings law, although those complaints are…..