There are plenty of good reasons to not support this Mayor and get involved with the recall. However, please explain to me why anyone should apologize for wanting him out for his sexual activities with a minor? I appreciate the fact that he has made other poor decisions since and that he is also a liar. I know it is not "cool" to want him out for being a sex predator but the Mecury is always advocating for the homeless and downtrodden. Great, I support this but what about the large homeless teen population or just teens in general?

When my foster daughter was a teenager (now a twenty three year old woman) she would frequently run away to get drugs and be preyed upon, by adults, in good ol Portland. These kids are easy victims and if you think people don't care about homeless adults well you can imagine how very little they care for homeless/runaway teens. When you have a Mayor who flaunts statutory laws anywhere in the state you set an incredibly dangerous precedent. The entire state should want this Mayor gone and any public official gone if they can not obey laws concerning youth. Have you seen Beau Breedlove? He still looks like a kid to me and it has been at least four years since he was Sam Adams victim. You do not have to be a Taft/Larson follower to take issue with a sex offender. I am tired of hearing friends say that are worried people will think they are "anti-gay" if they speak out against a sex predator. This should never have been a gay/straight issue and articles like this, meant to be inciteful, are sadly making it one.

The article says there were a hundred people there, so why keep harping on Taylor and Taft? Everyone was welcome (including the opposing side) and to hold it against the recall effort that a "pro-family" Mayoral candidate showed up is very small minded.

For the record, Beau Breedlove was a high school student and a bright one at that when Sam did his “mentoring.” I watched the video of him (Beau) on the Rick Emerson show and you know what I saw? A polite 21 year old that is a bit confused and overwhelmed and a little sad. Watching that I couldn’t help but think how much better off this kid would have been had he been given a fair shot and not encountered a predator at 17, sadly we will never know.

Oliver-

163.315 Incapacity to consent; effect of lack of resistance. (1) A person is considered incapable of consenting to a sexual act if the person is:

(a) Under 18 years of age;

This is Oregon Law. If you don't like it you are welcome to work to change it.