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This guy used his public position (that's why the young person to him in the first place) to strike up a relationship that was, by his very definition, exploitative. Why the hell else would he mess with a kid 25 years his junior. This is not a gay issue. If he was straight and the kid was a girl, we'd be hollering for his scalp just as loud. He won the election based on a false pretense. The people of Portland, tolerant as they are, would NEVER, NEVER NEVER have voted him in, had they known the truth. As the facts play out, he may well find himself confined among a large community of potential sexual partners. That would, perhaps, represent justice.

Face it, bottom line, he lied to get elected. He broke faith with the voters and is, for that reason, unfit to lead. Stick a fork in him, he's done.

posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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In the forest on the west edge of bend, there is garbage everywhere. you can find campsites, little tent communities out there. and garbage. its a total mess . its ironic that in a town with many, many vacant houses, the people who built them are too poor to live in a house themselves. until there is an adequate recognition that these invisible people exist and must survive, our immediate physical surroundings will continue to be degraded by these people out government would prefer to pretend do not exist.

posted 5 years ago
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well, with $8m on the line, you can bet the Insurance Company will look into it, and do a thorough job. A lot more people get killed by insurance arsons than ever got hurt by the ELF, or the Weathermen, for that matter.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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Before everyone jumps on the bandwagon of blaming ecoterrorists for these fires in Seattle, we should all consider that four out of five of these houses sat unsold for more than a year before they burned. The debt service on a two million dollar asset is around twenty thousand dollars a month. And most arson fires are caused by friction-generated heat; the friction of a large mortgage rubbing up against a larger insurance policy. I'd be willing to bet that the developer added a terrorism rider to their insurance policy.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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