Everybody's sorry
How bad is the Neil Goldschmidt statutory rape scandal?
Four words: Even Phil Stanford's apologizing.
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Comments (5)
Me, I'm boggled by the way this headline reads on KGW:
"Oregon Bar probes former Ore. governor Goldschmidt"
Like with a hot poker or something?
Posted by The One True b!X | May 11, 2004 6:14 PM
What probes around, comes around.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 11, 2004 6:16 PM
Wow. That is some Stanford story, top to bottom, writing and details.
It's the first compelling piece I have seen on it.
Posted by Sally | May 11, 2004 6:27 PM
It's an excellent article. And its good he apologized. Someone else needed to.
The City of Portland betrayed this young girl. And for what? Because Neil built cool trains and parks.
Sometimes this city is hard to love.
Posted by Justin | May 12, 2004 4:25 AM
The apologies are still hollow. What did Phil Stanford know, and when did he know it?
The account of Goldschmidt writing an apology then requiring its shredding made my blood run cold. Years after the initial abuse, he wouldn't give his victim any control in their relationship or in the way she rebuilt her life. Real repentence would have required him to write the apology, pay the restitution, and give the woman the power to break him by going public with both, if she chose. That would have restored the balance of power so lacking in their decades-long acquaintance. Instead, he bought her silence and made her destroy his apology.
Ugly.
Posted by Amanda | May 12, 2004 10:10 AM