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| Would the Mayor Portland, OR have to resign if he was a hetero |
| 2009-02-11 |
| the best part of this is that the story has a Ball, a Wiener and a Breedlove; the second best part is it happened in a smug liberal bastian and the writer realizes it Our saga begins in September 2007, when the young and wonkishly handsome Adams--a popular, ruthlessly effective city councilor who seemed all-but-destined to win the following year's mayoral race--faced a sudden, shocking threat to his political career. Local real estate developer Bob Ball, also gay and a political rival, had planted a rumor to end all rumors within Portland's political set: Back in 2005, he alleged, the then-42-year-old Adams had entered into a clandestine sexual relationship with a 17-year-old legislative intern from Salem. All was blissful in the Adams camp until last month, when Nigel Jaquiss, a reporter for the alternative paper Willamette Week, came calling. Jaquiss, who famously uncovered another Portland mayor's underage sex abuse, confronted Adams with evidence that he had lied about his relationship with Breedlove--which may have included sex while he was still a minor. The rattled Adams maintained his innocence, but when it became clear that WW intended to publish the story, he had no choice but to come clean. The day after WW's revelation, Jan. 20, Adams hosted another press conference, this time to admit that he'd never really mentored Breedlove and that he had persuaded the teen to lie about their romance |
| Posted by:mhw |