I want to remind everyone just catching wind of this ‘scandal’ for the first time since the beginning of 2015 that this began BEFORE the election and many, INCLUDING me, feel DEFRAUDED by the abject LACK of attention the local media paid to Kitzhaber vacating the public campaign scene in the runup to the election to avoid unwanted attention on what has now exploded into full scandal.
I, for one, consider it criminal that, so close to an election, an elected Governor can resign and have his next-in-line of like-party replace him rather than his opponent, who would have won handily had the questions raised prior to the election NOT been ignored by local & national media.