Gubernatorial address
Friends, Oregonians, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Goldschmidt, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interréd with their bones,
So let it be with Goldschmidt... The noble Jaquiss
Hath told you Goldschmidt was licentious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Goldschmidt answered it....
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Jaquiss says he was licentious;
And Jaquiss is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men....
He hath brought much development to Portland,
Whose condo tow'rs and light rail lines now thrive:
Did this in Goldschmidt seem licentious?
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.... Bear with me;
My career is in the coffin there with Goldschmidt,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
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Comments (6)
To be seen with him, or not to be seen with him: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of the Oregonian,
And comment not upon my patron's troubles,
Or to criticize them? To die in sleep
My political career would end no more
Bluntly than they say my friend's did end,
From heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
His flesh was bare to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd kept hidden and unpublished.
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For who would bear the whips and scorns of Time,
Or Willamette Week, the Big O, or the Trib,
The pangs of felonious love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
Through Gard & Gerber? Would the PUC care
If Bonderman & Co. look'd anew?
But that the dread of something worse than death,
An undiscover'd secret from whose bourn
Phil Stanford might return and bring report,
Will make us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | May 17, 2004 12:29 AM
brilliant. :)
Posted by Jo | May 17, 2004 1:35 PM
Why the heck are you linking Goldschmidt to Kulongoski like that?
Posted by Jeremy | May 17, 2004 8:32 PM
Before you annoint Sainthood on Nigel, let's not forget the peace of shit hatchet job he did a few years ago on Sho Dozono that was horribly edited, lacked real substance and was rushed to print to embarrass a man who has given his soul, his time and his money to improve many things, most importantly, opportunity for our kids. Nice job here Nigel, but you've still a long way to go.
Posted by rj | May 17, 2004 8:34 PM
Jeremy: TK owes his career to NG.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 17, 2004 10:59 PM
RJ—In my story about Sho Dozono, I acknowledged that he has done much for the city and its citizens. Does that mean he gets a free pass? Here is the meat of the story:
"according to documents and Dozono's own admission, he treated the trust fund of a deceased friend's young son as a personal piggy bank.
Over the course of four years, Dozono transferred a total of more than $1.25 million of the child's money to companies Dozono controlled, committing what legal experts say are serious breaches of his fiduciary duty."
(full story: http://198.107.45.79/story.php?story=3295)
Dozono does not deny using the boy's money for his companies' benefit.
Posted by nigel jaquiss | May 23, 2004 9:31 PM