Smith focused on liveability: "There will be those who will come to you and say primarily: Hey, what we need to do is reduce taxes on upper income earners, reduce spending and making it easier to do things like, I dunno: build a casino or move coal through the city and the Columbia River Crossing. But in fact what that will do is make it more difficult to do anything about education, erode the livability, which was number one on the PDC software cluster rankings of why people in the software industry like Portland in the first place."