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This installment names some of the most well-known criminals in recent time as Democrats and the history of the Democrats’ use of voter fraud starting with the election of 1876 . Chapter Seven: Democrat Criminals John Wayne Gacy was a Democrat and homosexual rapist and murderer. Gacy was perhaps the most revolting murderer in American history. He was convicted of committing dozens of homosexual rapes and murders and was eventually executed for his crimes. Gacy killed 33 males, most of them teenage boys. He used his position as a Democrat fund raiser to move in high Chicago Democrat circles. In...

Last week, a well-respected online business publication provided yet another possible link between Neil Goldschmidt and the Texans who recruited him to take over Portland General Electric. On Oct. 28, Bloomberg News published an account of Texas Pacific Group's struggle to buy Oregon's largest utility. The story quoted Richard Blum, a San Francisco investor who has been a business partner and hiking companion of Texas Pacific CEO David Bonderman for the past decade. Blum is no stranger to acquiring heavily regulated businesses in Oregon--nor is he a stranger to Goldschmidt. Correspondence obtained by WW from the state archives shows that...

Lars Larson is breaking the news that Kerry met with former governor and self admitted pedophile, Neil Goldschmidt. The Kerry campaign has known for months that Goldschmidt is toast in Oregon, but on his last trip here, Kerry had dinner with the pedophile. Lars has had many different confirmations of the meeting including a policeman who was assigned to Kerry's patrol. Listen into Lars' show by clicking on his web site and getting more breaking details. Goldschmidt had raped a fourteen year old girl for three years while the thirtyfive year old was mayor of Portland.

The Oregon State Bar is investigating whether to discipline former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt after he confessed to having sex with a 14-year-old girl when he served as mayor in the 1970s. Officials confirmed Tuesday that the bar has opened an investigative file on Goldschmidt, who has not practiced law for years but still holds a license. Kateri Walsh, a bar spokeswoman, described the situation to KGW as "very preliminary," but indicated that the bar is now formally looking into the case. "We're in the initial investigation stage but we are evaluating the issues," said Walsh. The Oregon State Bar did...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Just days before a weekly paper was going to break the story, former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admitting having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s, when he was mayor of Portland. Goldschmidt, 63, stepped down from two major jobs Thursday and issued a public apology. It was a sudden, shocking end to the career of a man known as a political rainmaker in Oregon, a top executive at Nike and transportation secretary under President Carter. "May a forgiving God mend my broken heart and those I have broken," he said in a statement. Goldschmidt...

Just days before a weekly paper was going to break the story, former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admitting having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s, when he was mayor of Portland.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A former Oregon governor and transportation secretary under President Carter has admitted to a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s, when he was mayor of Portland. Neil Goldschmidt, 63, who was elected mayor at age 32 and served his only term as governor from 1987-1991, told The Oregonian about the relationship for a story in Friday editions, shortly after resigning from two chairmanships Thursday. According to Oregon laws in 1975, sex with a girl under 16 constituted third-degree rape, but the statute of limitations expired in 1979. Citing only health problems, Goldschmidt on...

Former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admitted Thursday that he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 35 and mayor of Portland, and said he is resigning all his public and private positions to "rebuild my life." In an extraordinary and emotional 50-minute interview with The Oregonian, Goldschmidt confessed he has lived for 30 years with the "enormous guilt and shame" of what he said was a nine-month relationship. He said deteriorating health -- heart arrhythmia and blocked arteries -- and knowledge that media accounts of the affair were about to unfold, made him come forward. "I'm just...

Statement from Neil Goldschmidt Thursday, May 6, 2004 Text of the statement Neil Goldschmidt made to The Oregonian on Thursday: Beginning in 1975, while I was mayor, I had an affair with a high school student for nearly a year. In 1994, I funded a conservatorship in her behalf, believing I was partly responsible for her difficulties coping with her life. For almost thirty years, I have lived with enormous guilt and shame about this relationship. I have also been afraid that it would be exposed to my family, friends and the public whose respect I have sought to...

Portland General Electric has sailed past its first legal hurdle in breaking free from its troubled and broke parent, Enron Corp. Ignoring a letter from city officials saying Portland could pay more, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez on Thursday quickly approved the $2.35 billion sale of PGE to the Texas Pacific Group, a San Francisco-based private investment group with $13 billion in assets. Gonzalez's stamp of approval follows 10 months of intense negotiations among Enron management, its attorneys and creditor groups, said the company's managing director, Mitchell Taylor, during Thursday's bankruptcy hearing in New York City. "We're pleased the court...