Told you so
It's getting awfully easy to predict the behavior of our elected officials in Portland. Exactly as we called it this morning, the city auditor waited until 5:00 this afternoon to release his ruling on the campaign practices of City Council wannabe John Branam under the "clean money" taxpayer campaign finance system. The short of it is that the city ruled that Branam's contract with his campaign manager, Phil Busse, called for overpaying Busse by $5,000, and it prohibited Branam from paying Busse that amount. The $20,000 already forked over, however, was found to be permissible.
The city's ruling raises more questions about the system than it answers, and no doubt the auditor would like us to raise all these questions now, so that they'll be long forgotten by Monday morning. We won't be taking that bait. We'll reserve our comments until the start of the next work week. There's plenty else to write about over the weekend.
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Comments (6)
Like Chris Smith, John Branam is on the short list of friends/family of CoP, so they get away with violations of VoE.
Sho Dozono running against Sam Adams is not friends and family, so he gets whacked.
Game fixed.
Posted by Steve | April 19, 2008 7:31 AM
All Campaign Managers are created equal and should be compensated accordingly.*
But don't expect the City of Portland to publish a list of "approved" salary levels: more fun to let the blind follow the blind, and watch them file complaints on each other.
*Some are more equal than others.
Posted by Mister Tee | April 19, 2008 8:51 AM
Beyond outrageous.
Posted by anon | April 19, 2008 9:38 AM
You silly people.
Repeat after me,,,, "Portland is wonderful,,Portland is wonderful, Portland is wonderful".
Now don't you feel better and want to vote for Sam Adams, Jim Middaugh and Chris Smith?
Off you go now and don't trouble yourselves with the complicated intricacies of city matters which you don't understand.
Posted by Ben | April 19, 2008 12:05 PM
We'll reserve our comments until the start of the next work week.
Somehow, I didn't think this was going to work out this way, Jack.
Posted by john rettig | April 19, 2008 12:30 PM
It's.... Mahhhhh-velous!
Posted by Mister Tee | April 19, 2008 2:59 PM