For someone with a Harvard Law degree, 12 years later he has done remarkably little, given the opportunities that credential almost automatically confers, and it appears he walked out on a couple of good jobs after very short stints. He's 38 years old now, not a wunderkind anymore, if he ever was. This present effort at being a career politician isn't looking particularly auspicious.

Not cool--there is no excuse for not voting in every election from age 18 on.

The guy seems like a whole lot of nothing to me, he hasnt done much for being 38 years old. I think we have learned from Obama that a harvard pedigree is no guarantee of competence.

"If you took the extraordinary step of FedEx'ing a ballot from Ohio to Oregon in Bush vs. Gore, you wouldn't remember for sure whether you did that or not?"

Really simple to have FedEx send you an eMail confirmation of delivery, Jefferson.

This guy has been a politician way too long already. Stop him before he goes further.

That 38 year old paunch is too close to being permanently attached to the public trough.
Don't go there Portland voters! Please! Send this guy back to the real world for a real job, if anyone will have him. His work history is not exactly stellar.

The bad driving record and all of that didn't mean much to me. I agree that this non-voting thing is a major red flag for someone who has built his entire schtick around the notion that young people need to get out and vote. "I had my nose buried in law books, and I didn't care about anything but getting a good job" is such a frikin' cop out. It wouldn't surprise me if the people who worked with him when he was an associate at Stoel Rives have very few flattering things to say about him, but can't speak out due to employment disclosure laws, etc. (BTW I was simultaneously in law school full time, worked 20 hours a week at a law firm as a clerk and was an officer in the National Guard, and it would have never occurred to me to miss out on voting in a presidential election.)

What happens to Jefferson now?
Has he given up his legislative seat to run for Mayor?

Clinton v. Dole was going to be a blowout and everyone knew it, but there's no excuse for not voting in Bush v. Gore. And trying to throw the elections office under the bus (no pun intended) is not cool.

He "thinks" he FedEx'ed his ballot, but isn't sure.

Sounds kinda like Anthony Wiener "I did not send those pictures but I can't positively say they are not of me".

You are right, who cares about the voting?

I care about the hypocrisy and the lies. Don't we have too many hypocrite liars in office already?

Running for mayor is high-profile (at least locally). I think more detail on his work record will surely leak out.

Narcissism and compulsive lying? Aren't those just basic qualifications for elected office?

Don't do as I say, do as I do...

There is no good excuse for not voting. And most especially for any person running for office (let alone someone who once passed a course in Constitutional law...) This privilege (that so much of the world lacks) is at the core of who we are in this experiment of a country. I don't trust people who have regularly not voted at any time in their over-18 lives; it feels like a character litmus test to me--there's either too much laziness or self-absorption or hubris going on...

I think there are a lot of good reasons for not voting, from the cynical to the radical even to the realistic. But this is pure opportunism, narcissism and hypocrisy.

IMHO if you can't be bothered to vote why do you think my vote for you is warranted ?