[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Just hours after Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his decision to resign, a subpoena arrived in a state office building confirming that federal agents are looking into the influence-peddling scandal that led to the abrupt end of a four-decade political career.
The Democratic governor gave in to mounting pressure Friday, abandoning his office amid suspicions that his live-in fiancée used her relationship with him to land contracts for her green-energy consulting business.
His resignation, which takes effect Wednesday, cleared the way for Secretary of State Kate Brown to assume Oregon's highest office and become the nation's first openly bisexual governor. And that's really, really, awfully important...? Squirrel!!
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Subpeonies, isn't it a little early for flowers in Oregon, after all its only February. Spring doesn't arrive until March 20th.
Well, maybe John Kitzhaber and his friends are special and they get sub-peonies early. After all they are Democrats.
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Kitzhaber...Kitzhaber...oh, yeah! He's the guy who spent $250 million on an ObamaCare website for Oregon website that never worked. Stupid and crooked, wotta combo!
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[Wash Free Bacon] Top advisers to the billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer helped run a green group, financed in part by Steyer himself, that is at the center of a corruption scandal that could force forced the Democratic governor of Oregon to resign.
An executive at one of Steyerâs nonprofit groups and a political vendor who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hedge fund managerâs political operations helped run the group, which is accused of influencing state energy policy through undisclosed payments to Oregon's first lady.
The controversy centers on Gov. John Kitzhabet's main squeeze fiance, Cylvia Hayes. She was paid $118,000 by the Clean Economy Development Center (CEDC) to advocate for environmentalist policies in Oregon.
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