On top of being a complete moron and utterly unqualified for the office she holds, Eudaly also has no semblance of personal ethics.

She had interns performing illegal, unpaid work for her bookshop. She lied about her father drunkenly killing people as a justification to shut down debate from her constituents she disagreed with. She is unilaterally deciding the city should not enforce laws on housing units parked in driveways. She continually ditches public meetings when she doesn't want to hear constituent testimony.

She's in way over her head, can't handle criticism, and can't handle comporting herself in anything resembling a professional manner. I can't believe we're going to have to put up with an entire term of this bullshit, all because she rode to victory on a wave of Novak hate and renter greed.

Oh, forgot to mention failing to pay taxes for years and years on end. Eudaly is Portland's Donald Trump to a T.

rich bachelor - She is quite clearly violating public records laws by deleting comments from constituents relating to her public position as a commissioner, and by posting things relating to her official position on a filtered "private" page. Other politicians have been sued and lost on this point, so I'm pretty sure nobody is making that up.

"Illiterate" is usually slang for stupid. Not literally illiterate by the dictionary definition. It seems like you're stretching to defend her here. That's fine if you like her, but many people don't due to her continual pattern of being arrogant, disrespectful, and not upholding her responsibilities towards all of her constituents, rather than privileging the constituents who happen to like and agree with her.

Where is the evidence for the unpaid interns? Until now I’ve only read about it in anonymous comments at willamette week.

GLV, the evidence is the literal advertisement that was, as of last year, still up on the bookstore website for unpaid interns with the duties listed being those duties that Oregon employment law says should be paid work. So the only way it didn't happen is if Eudaly's bookstore and the appeal of interning there was so shitty that they didn't land an intern for that listing. And I think we both know the answer to that, since there were interns working at her store during that period.

"Reading Frenzy is as much a community resource as it is a business, and as such has always depended on the generosity of volunteer staff, a team of supportive professionals who help us for free or cheap, and the occasional fundraiser" - Chloe Eudaly on kickstater, as reported by the Mercury in 2007, then again on another Kickstarter by her in 2012.

A permanent call for free unpaid labor volunteers, which she'd make people apply for like a paid job was posted on her website fir years until she pulled that earlier this year.

But here's the clincher. It's against Federal and state employment laws for a for profit business (which Reading Frenzy was) to use unpaid labor, including volunteers or unpaid interns. Eudaly could owe every single one of those "volunteers" back wages, and owe the gov back employment taxes on them. It's considered explotation to use free labor for your own profit, which is what Eudaly was doing. For 22 years! Man, that would be a lot of back wages & taxes owed. Wow. If she wanted to be a charity for herself, she should have made reading frenzy into a non profit..

She also didn't pay taxes on $73k raised in kickstarters she held for herself, including begging - I mean- "crowd funding" for a minivan, which is kind of...hypocritical? Considering her $116,000 salary is now paid for by taxpayers.

Here's two links of interest. Google is the thinking man's power tool digger. I'm sure others can use their keyboards to verify this. And more.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/books/rea…

From an employment law firm. Feel free to contact Oregon gov BOLI or https://www.wardandsmith.com/articles/wa…

Forbes also has a pretty good tip shit for businesses on the no no of using unpaid labor
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.…

Why do we know all this? Stay tuned for the next episode of Eudaly does dumb, bad, illegal things and gets in trouble by the press and law for it...

From this story and others, it looks to me like she got herself elected and is swimming with entirely different species of fish than she is accustomed. Political types are eating her alive and my guess is that she hates her new job. Too bad for us. I admit I voted for her, a mistake.

A million upvotes for Central Librarian.

Can we get an update on this article? Because I heard someone actually formally filed a number of grievances against Eudaly with the Portland Ombudsman's office earlier this week.