Former Gov. Goldschmidt's role as an East Coast- or Chicago-style political boss becomes more and more clear with every new revelation.

Now it turns out he pulled strings to get his statutory rape victim a job at the Portland public defender's office. This was after he persuaded his current or former general counsel in the U.S. Department of Transportation (from when he was U.S. Secretary of Transportation) to hire her as a legal assistant.

The guy's been a one-man employment agency for his pals over the years. Where I come from, that's called "political patronage."

You wonder how else he used his office and former office for private economic benefit.

Don't worry, though. Phil Stanford's chasing him down, suffering all the way.