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Amanda Fritz on Adams’ decision: “Yesterday, two young women were killed and seven people injured in gunfire on Portland’s streets.”
From the commissioner’s blog: Yesterday, two young women were killed and seven people injured in gunfire on Portland’s streets. Recently, a man with no home froze to death in a cemetery, while hundreds of people live on our streets every day. Portlanders continue to lose their jobs due to the recession. The City Council must […]
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Adams: Staying. “I will work harder than I ever have in my life.”
From Adams’ communications director, Wade Nkrumah: Mayor Sam Adams: “I will work harder than I ever have in my life to meet the challenges facing our great city” PORTLAND, OR — Today Mayor Sam Adams released the following statement: Tomorrow, I go back work as your mayor. I know I have let you down and […]
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Leonard: “Realized He Had Once Again Been Less Than Truthful With Me…”
City Commissioner Randy Leonard has responded to the Mercury‘s earlier inquiry asking him to react to this morning’s new revelations about the city hall smooch. Hi Matt- I am really focused, at this point, on making sure the city is getting all of its work done in a responsible and professional manner. Yesterday, during our […]
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Ask a Republican
Want to know what Republicans currently think about Sam Adams? Well, one calls Adams a sociopath. From NW Republican, Dare!PDX writes: If Sam Adams was an attorney, a CPA, a financial adviser, law enforcement officer as well as many other state certified professions he would no longer be worthy to practice his profession. Regardless of […]
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Fish and Leonard are Told Adams Won’t Resign
From the O: City Commissioner Randy Leonard says the embattled Portland mayor left him a message this morning saying he’s not resigning his job in the wake of a sex scandal. And Commissioner Nick Fish said Adams told him the same thing. Leonard, who would temporarily become mayor should Adams step down, said he could […]
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Smoooooooooooooching And The Law
Before the Mercury‘s former news editor quit to become the mayor’s sustainability and planning policy adviser, this reporter covered cops, courts, crime, and civil rights issues. So I should probably draw your attention, once again, to the fact that nine people were shot by a gunman in downtown Portland last night, in what is perhaps […]
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Will Adams Announce Today?
The WW writes that Adams will announce later today that he’ll be staying on the job, and will not resign. UPDATE: Commissioner Randy Leonard tells WW in regards to Adams’ intention to stay on the job: “I can’t believe what has happened in the last six days. Sam seems detached from reality.” OUCH.
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Is Kissing “Sexual Activity”?
As reported in the Oregonian, Beau Breedlove has admitted to kissing Sam Adams while he was still 17. Adams said, “I don’t remember, but if I did, it was not sexual contact.” Both still deny any sexual contact before he turned 18. According to Adams’ lawyer Robert Weaver… “There is nothing that (Breedlove) has said […]
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Saltzman: “He’s A Master At Keeping His Cards Close To His Chest…”
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman was the last to meet with Mayor Sam Adams this afternoon, taking 20 minutes after their meeting to make phone calls from his office before leaving by the back entrance on SW 5th. “It’s my sense that he’ll let us know his decision on Monday,” he said. “He asked my advice, […]
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Adams Has Left The Building
Sam Adams just left city hall, getting into a blue Jeep on SW 5th, driven by someone else, answering just two questions from reporters: Did you meet with everyone? “Yes.” Did you reach a decision? “No.”