"However, I do feel you need to be a bit more realistic regarding the complexity of the issues involved . . ." 
I don't think Mr. Porter wants to be realistic about the issue. (E.G. "The RG continues to print vicious, ignorant, bigotry."). And that makes me wonder if he really wants to find workable solutions. He ignores or dismisses other people's concerns, experiences, suggestions, and opinions not in accord with his own inflexible viewpoint. When asked specific questions about what he thinks is OK behavior downtown and where the money would come from to fund programs to actually increase help for the genuine homeless, addicted, and mentally ill, he either completely ignores the questions or responds with the same old vague generalities and stereotypes about the "classes" and business. 
Not only is it not helping to get anything meaningful done, I think it actually undermines efforts to help the less fortunate and clean-up downtown.