What is the Portland Ice Skating Society?
The Portland Ice Skating Society, New Zealand’s Tonya Harding fan club, exists to publicize the injustice that is being perpetrated towards Tonya by a small elite cabal of figure skaters and officials. The Portland Ice Skating Society was founded in the fall of 1996 to fill what we saw as a gaping lack of accurate, positive information about Tonya Harding on the Internet at the time. We started off with “The Portlandian”, a newsletter about Tonya published to various skating newsgroups. Thankfully, the situation has improved since then, and there are now several other quality Web sites devoted to Tonya available, but we still see alot of work to be done, hence this site. In spite of our name we don’t come from Tonya’s home town of Portland, Oregon, but instead from New Zealand, though we have members from all around the globe. We call ourselves the Portland Ice Skating Society because we aim to p*** off the pompous, politically correct windbags in skating who put Tonya down and try to
