A: "A 17-year-old Scot followed by a tSam Adams chaser.
Posted on 01/20/2009 9:43:51 AM PST by mojito
One thing we seem to breed in Oregon are big political scandals, and the latest one is hitting Portland Mayor Sam Adams with gale force.
Adams admitted to The Oregonian and Willamette Week Monday that he lied back in September of 2007 when he denied rumors that he had had a sexual relationship with a teenager who had been a legislative intern. Adams, who is openly gay, said that while he first met the intern, Beau Breedlove, when he was 17, the two did not have sex until after Breedlove turned 18.
When rumors about the two first surfaced in September of 2007, Adams had not yet announced he was running for mayor but was clearly angling for the job. A potential mayoral rival to Adams, developer Bob Ball, had talked about the rumors with such figures as City Commissioner Randy Leonard and former Mayor Vera Katz, and Ball wound up being widely criticized after both Breedlove and Adams denied the rumor.
If Adams had admitted the relationship back in 2007, it likely would have seriously jeopardized his race for mayor. Reporters would have pushed hard to find out if the sexual relationship began before Breedlove was 18. Voters - and the power brokers who wield endorsements and campaign dollars - may have been bothered enough just by the age discrepancy to look elsewhere for a mayoral candidate.
At that point, it would have been easy to find an alternative to Adams. Adams undoubtedly knew that when he decided not to tell the truth and, as he acknowledged to Willamette Week, to ask Breedlove to lie for him as well.
Now, however, we're past the election and the city has invested itself in Adams' new mayoralty. There is a lot left to learn, including whether - as Willamette Week suggested in its reporting - Adams gave a job to a reporter for the Portland Mercury, Amy Ruiz, to keep her from continuing to chase reports that Adams had lied about his relationship with Breedlove.
It's way too early to know how this scandal will spin out - and whether voters will view it as a major blow to Adams' credibility or as a personal relationship that is none of their business.
... and as usual, he is a Democrat!
Hopefully, California’s Prop. #8 success to ban same sex marriage will bleed into Oregon.
Most anything from Portland is Democrat!
Hopefully, California’s Prop #8 success to ban same sex marriage will bleed into Oregon.
Anything Portland is Democrat. Portland is West Hollywood “North” and Bellevue “South.”
Hopefully, California’s Prop #8 success to ban same sex marriage will bleed into Oregon.
Parties aren't involved in the nominating process. It's an open primary with a potential top two runoff. The mayoral ballot is stuffed with assorted characters who throw their hat in the ring. A few of them turned out to be useful tools for Adams as he was able to finance them in serrepticiously challenging his one main challenger, Sho Dozono. He was deceptive in that too as long as he could.
The AP couldn’t determine his party affiliation either.
I am sure they are digging hard for it and will get back to us.
The current Gov then got the legislature to pass a “civil unions” law.
They won't have far to go, most of them are already in the bushes at various public parks...
Oregon banned it by constitution a few years ago...
Isn't his name Terd Colonoscopy??? I don't know the spelling...
Close enough.
You are correct. Oregon AND California voters both voted to ban same sex marriage (and of course Californians had to vote on it again recently, again, banning same sex marriage by voting “Yes” on Prop. #8).
Yes, and that’s evidence Conservatism can survive on the Left Coast if politicians simply stand-up for Conservative issues.
When Neil Goldschmidt was Mayor he “did” a neighbor girl who was baby-sitting for him. It didn’t come out until after he had finished his term as Governor. The statute of limitations had expired so he was never prosecuted (she was underage at the time) but he still had to move out of the state and his official portrait has been relegated to the basement of the Capitol Building.
Adams a victim of poor timing... he’ll never make it to the Statehouse now.
“Obviously a Democrat, because no party affiliation is mentioned.
I will now complete my thesis by googling the mayor.”
You may run into another Democrat Mayor Pedophile, from Racine, WI, that’s out there.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/01/democrats-crimes-and-media-amnesia.html
Bingo. It was a politically timed dump by CREW, designed for maximum political damage and nothing more.
Portland deserves what it gets....bunch of idiots out there......
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