Jack Peek, Portland’s angriest internet troll—a chronic poster and voracious reader of local blogs—declined to be interviewed when I called/emailed him to see what makes him tick. Now that I’m on his mass-emailing list along with Lars Larsen and Crossfire, I pieced together info from his emails that more or less matched the questions I hoped he would have answered personally. So in the nature of half-truths, the following is a half-interview. But if Jack stumbles upon this faux-interview during his next search and destroy mission, I have one last Proust-inspired question for you, “If you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself?”

What’d you do for a living?
Truck driver. “I traveled 12 states to earn a living while my wife and kids were home alone.”

What are your core political beliefs?
“My politics are not what could be elected, but my passion for the basics can’t be challenged.”

What’s it like being a conservative in little Beirut”?
“When you think right, an towards the middle of politics, and all here in PDX, is as “blue” as it gets, it’s damn lucky, as nasty as some comments have been made about me, that I haven’t been shot at.”

Why do you post?
“You provide the passion and evident frustration that some things aren’t the way you want them, which people do hear even if you may not believe it because they don’t’ necessarily agree with you all the way. Your contributions nonetheless provide useful reminders that some citizens are mad as hell and not wanting to take it anymore.”

Do you have an online nemesis?
“B!X has the talent to root out the facts we would never hear…sometimes slanted his way…but nevertheless, he writes what others are afraid too, my respect towards him.”

How would you sum up the Portland political establishment?
“Train wreck”

You spearheaded a futile recall effort against Vera Katz. What’d you learn from that experience?
“Back too the original challenge…just once, can people unite in this city to really be heard...LOUDLY, and just not here, until then, those jobs at city hall are safe.”

Do you see any more recall efforts in your future?
“There comes a time, that the fact has to sink in, that until we have a voice that speaks from where we do…’we are screwed.’”

How’s Mayor Potter doing?
“Sick, JUST SICK!”

What is your greatest extravagance?
Passion.

Any last words of wisdom?
“If you have kids….DON’T HAVE ANYMORE!”