For Portland City Council, we're voting for Mary Volm...she's the only one in her race expressing a lick of common sense about the dangerous direction in which the city is headed. 
BoJack.org, Apr. 29, 2010
Volm, a passionate and outspoken Southeast Portland artist by trade, brings name recognition from 20 years as the TV face of the city in weather-related emergencies. She also knows the budget like the back of her hand, as the longtime spokeswoman for the transportation bureau and Office of Management and Finance...
Mary Volm, former spokeswoman for the city, is very fluent in the issues Portland faces and makes a forceful case that the current commissioners emphasize the wrong priorities – giving Major League Soccer, for example, greater weight than basic city services.
...Volm has experience and passion for the job.
Mary Volm, a dynamic City Hall veteran with intricate knowledge of the city...
Click here to listen to a KBOO forum "Why I am running to be your next City Commissioner"
For me, there is no more honorable calling than public service.
I know this because it has been my honor to work for both the City of Portland and the State of Oregon for the last 24 years. It has never been about feathering my own nest or pulling down the "big bucks"; it has always meant that I can go to my job every day and work to make a difference in the quality of people's lives and the character and functionality of our great city and state.
Over the past 24 years, I have been public servant, first for the State of Oregon in the offices of transportation and economic development and then for the City of Portland in several departments - Parks, Transportation, Planning, Finance and Administration, and Emergency Management, and on a variety of city-wide initiatives and projects. I have worked hard to create a sense of place here in Portland for myself, my family, friends, neighbors, and for all Portlanders.
Like many of you, Portland is my home. I was born right here in Portland to working class, hard-core democratic parents. As a high school student, I had the pleasure of meeting Tom McCall just after Senate Bill 100 was passed, creating Oregon's open beaches and protecting farm and forest land from development. Since then, I’ve continued to learn what sets Oregon apart, and that knowledge forged the passion and desire to help others recognize the same.