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We know Sam lied, but what about the punishment fitting the crime? I would ask Scott Westerman: if a police officer lied about having an affair outside his marriage, would he/she be asked to resign? This is a matter of trust, not a matter of malfeasance.

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You are assuming some sort of non-consentual or statuatory rape scenario. You do not know the situation regarding Sam and Beau's relationship. This is the kind of judgment that allowed Bush to bomb multiple countries into oblivion without any sort of punishment, but almost got Clinton, one of our best presidents in decades, fired. Your double-standards are dangerous to everyone.

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I think first and foremost the local media have been ignoring a major component of this problem: the context of the original question. Who asked Mayor Adams about his relationship with Breedlove and under what context? Did they have the right to ask such a personal question in the first place? No one is talking about why he might have lied.

Yes, Sam made a bad choice in lying. But he is a politician, and a lying politician is not a new concept. His falsehood doesn't eclipse his qualifications and skills to be one of the best mayors Portland has ever had, especially when we need it the most.

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