This is actually great. The more publicity that Adams calls to this sorry episode, the worse he looks. At the same time, his pissant, phony insistence that he hopes Dozono stays in the race, gives Sho cover to do just that. I doubt it was ever about the money for Dozono, he could throw $200K out in the street and not miss it. He was trying to do the right thing and look what it got him. The prudent move now would be to do the Potteresque small contribution thing. Heavy, smart, advertising of that plan with Sho dough would jump-start the process. Adams' bitchy reactions and blatant media bias would guarantee a steady, broad-based flow of money. Let Sam hang himself.

Dear Sam,

you:

* hired a lawyer to join the legal challenge
* spent $10,000 in legal fees
* publicly campaigned about the issue of this nonsense technicality (that gave no advantage to anyone, really)
* held a press conference to comment on the issue
* berated your opponent both as an "insider" and an "outsider"

because you wanted to be "treated fairly"?

as you said on your campaign site, do you call this working "as if you were living in the early days of a better nation"?

or even "when everyone was united by a goal that is so promising and so much larger than themselves that they can barely imagine even the edges of it"?

wonk on, my friend.

are there any other strong candidates out there willing to run? it's looking grim.

Eco... it's too late. Filing deadline was March 11th. Only possibility now is a write in campaign.

Sam "release[s]" Sho from the commitment to run only on public financing? My, that's mighty big of Sam! Write-in campaign is starting to look good...

Eco, getting a $27,000 in-kind contribution from a lobbyist is no "technicality." And a poll like that, with all kinds of useful information that is still not public, certainly is advantageous to Dozono.

Sho is going to run on private donations, and he's going to get trounced, just as he would have as a VOE candidate. His only hope is to keep Adams below 50% in the primary and hope for some deus ex machina in the general.

Eco, getting a $27,000 in-kind contribution from a lobbyist is no "technicality."

i disagree. the entire issue wasn't what the lobbyist did, but when.

and why would Dozono game the system for the peanuts he'd get from public campaign cash, when he could've easily waited a few weeks to do the poll, with the same outcome?

it's little more than distraction and press fodder. it's the after-dinner mint, not the meal.

Sam Adams is beginning to remind me of Frank Ivancie.

Ecohuman.com, you are my new hero.

This week the Oregonian Metro section highlighted another candidate for Mayor. Rich, I recall, was his last name. I think I might vote for him. He sounded kind of a cynical sort about the current direction of PDX cityhall.

That GQ shot of Adams is slick.

Sam Adams is beginning to remind me of Frank Ivancie.

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It'd be nice actually, if he were just like Ivancie... kicked out of town and forgotten in CA.