Well, the Mayor's handpicked successor triumphed--- and convincingly so. My fellow irate posters, we're a teeny-tiny minority. 
I, for one, am done. We get the government we deserve. 
While Salem, Corvallis, Bend, Hood River, etc. delight in their wonderful downtowns, we suffer a community that increasingly is unsafe (a woman was just attacked in broad daylight by a stranger at a near-downtown restaurant) and more butt-ugly by the year. Yes, it's partly meth usage--- it's out-of-control but our elected officials seem blithely unaware of it or for some reason just don't want to discuss it.
City Hall: it's a boondoggle. 
My fellow Eugene residents: we deserve to be ripped off; you cannot simply elect leaders and then fall asleep for a dozen years. 
If you don't like it now, wait until you see what Ruiz has plans for next. Kesey Square? Hahaha…. just wait. That's only the tip, my friends. This guy and his buddies at the planning department never met a developer they disliked.