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luckylucy, I've worked for 41 years at probably 20 different jobs and I've never known anyone working there beforehand - honestly.

Amy Ruiz was hired as Adams' sustainability advisor. She herself admitted she is probably the least qualified sustainability advisor candidate in Portland. Are you saying the old adage that it's not what you know but whom you know should be true in Portland politics as it was in the Bush administration? Do you not see with her hiring the appearance of impropriety?

"People somehow want a saint to work in politics. Grow Up. Mr and Ms prissy pants. "

luckylucy, you don't know your audience. I don't want a saint in office, I am grown up and I'm - trust me on this one - not a prissy pants. I want someone I can trust in office. If that person has made a mistake in his past, has paid for that mistke and proven his trustworthiness again then I find that person acceptable to be in office. Sam Adams has not paid for his mistakes or proven his trustworthiness again.

"MAYBE, Portland needs to stop behaving like some podunk small town and put on a sharp suit. if we just shut up and start acting like a grown up city"

Not from around here are you luckylucy? Been here long? We don't like "sharp suits" . We're into flannel and denim. We like being Portland, we don't want to be Seattle or San Francisco. We like our politicians honest, we pay attention and we're very voiceferous when we see something we don't like.

Why do you bring up the age 18? Adams groomed and made out with a 17 year old. This did not happen in Adams' "personal life." It is and was public (public restroom, etc.). Adams' subsequent lies, conspiricies and slander brought this sordid affair further into the public domain.

"But really, it comes down to homophobia."

Playing the Gay card, hey. This really cheapens the lame excuses you've already dug up for Adam's behavior. luckylucy, we elected Adams. We knew he was gay when we elected him.

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Chrissy4605, you said you made some very serious mistakes. Did you pay the consequences of your actions? You reap what you sow. Sam Adams is and will be reaping what he has sown.

"How he changes from here on is what we should judge him."

Baloney. Say that to a judge before he passes sentence and see how the judge reacts. Sam Adams has displayed the behavior of a scoundrel. He will be a scoundrel for the forseeable future, until he has had years to regain the trust we placed in him. Scoundrels are not qualified to be mayor. Resign, Sam, or be recalled.

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NO.

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"Can we actually have a discussion about issues that affect us like schooling and the environment?"

adegher, ok.

Sam Adams' school funding ideas are on the ropes because he can no longer lend his "seduction of a 17 year old" image to those ideas and, hopefully, he's no longer allowed inside Portland's public schools.

Sam Adams hired Amy Ruiz as his sustainability advisor. Amy declared, before she was hired, that a 12 lane bridge across the Columbia would be environmentally insane. Sam Adams agreed. Last week Sam Adams signed off on a 12 lane bridge. Sam Adams does not have the political capital to successfully pursue a pro-environment agenda.

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EdwardD, you are a heterophobe. A 42 year old hetero city councilor who; groomed a 17 year old girl for sex while performing his city duties, made out with a 17 year old girl in a public city hall restroom, lied for 17 months about it in order to get elected mayor, conspired with the 17 year old to lie about it, hired a second rate newspaper reporter from a second rate newspaper to a city job to shut her up, slandered a potential mayoral candidate to get elected and then declared he'd made a mistake and we should only judge him on his future actions WOULD HAVE BEEN RUN OUT OF TOWN LONG AGO.

EdwardD, there are bad Gays and Sam Adams is one of them. Standing up for a person solely because that person is Gay shows disrespect for the Gay community and your own sense of honor.

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RobertWagner, when I stated, "Police officers are on duty 24/7/52 - they have no private life off limits to scrutiny.", that was a statement of fact. Ask any police officer. Police officers are held to a higher expectation of honor than is the average citizen.

You are right, the Adams affair is "exhausting." Exhausting not just to we who demand accountability in our employees (mayor, etc.) but exhausting for those who must carry on the city's business while negotiating the maze of disgust surrounding the Adams' mayoralship.

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Sam Adams, I'm tired of your supporters claiming the scandal you are involved in is a personal matter and it should not matter and it's none of our business. Police officers are on duty 24/7/52 - they have no private life off limits to scrutiny. You don't either.

The following acts on your part made your private life public;       

It matters and it's our business Adams conspired with Breedlove and Wiener to further lie and cover up previous lies in order to win election.
It matters and it's our business 42 year old Adams groomed a 17 year old for sex while Adams was performing city business.
It matters and it's our business Adams made out with a 17 year old in a public restroom at city hall.
It matters and it's our business Adams slandered Bob Ball in order to get elected.
It matters and it's our business Adams lied for 17 months in order to get elected.
It matters and it's our business Adams hired Amy Ruiz to a city job to shut her up.
It matters and it's our business Adams has no political capital and is a laughing stock.

Quit now and avoid me having to seek out a recall petition on July 1st.

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