Did Adams pay Wiener with city funds?
The Portland police union chief wrote the city's embattled mayor last night, urging him again to resign but apologizing for not telling him so privately before blurting it out at the infamous press conference the other day.
In the e-mail message is the suggestion -- and this is the second time we have heard it -- that the mayor, while a city commissioner, may have used public funds to pay his political consultant, Mark Wiener, to coach the mayor's teenage gay lover to deny the sex. As quoted today on wweek.com, the union head, Scott Westerman, wrote:
By likely utilizing either city funds, or campaign funds, you have acknowledged that you employed Mark Weiner to assist you in the cover up of your relationship and your continuous lies to the citizens and employees of Portland."Likely utilizing either city funds, or campaign funds"? To us, there's a big difference between the two.
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Comments (8)
"Likely" = "giving myself all the wiggle room I need for when this allegation proves false."
Posted by Dave J. | January 23, 2009 11:13 AM
Keep swinging Jack, Portland doesn't need a liar as Mayor.
Posted by HMLA267 | January 23, 2009 11:15 AM
"Likely either... or..." is particularly weaselly. But as I say, there's a rumor going around about this. And you know how it is with rumors about Scoutmaster Sam.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 23, 2009 11:15 AM
And it's no more weaselly than Adams's sort-of accusation, leveled in his Oregonian editorial board interview, that Bob Ball has also had inappropriate relations with teenagers.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 23, 2009 11:28 AM
It's so slippery it sickens me!
I'm still wondering how the mayor can hold a press conference in city hall and, as reported by the Oregonian on 1/21, have the press conference closed to the public. Do public meeting laws come into play on that?
Posted by Tabor Neighbor | January 23, 2009 11:29 AM
It's just the beginning. The rules for the public comment period in the City Council meetings will have to be changed, unless the commissioners enjoy hearing about this scandal every meeting for months on end.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 23, 2009 11:32 AM
Jack,
I was thinking the same thing about public comment in council. And that might be part of the overall package that will eventually get him to resign.
Posted by Dave Lister | January 23, 2009 12:28 PM
"I'm still wondering how the mayor can hold a press conference in city hall and, as reported by the Oregonian on 1/21, have the press conference closed to the public. Do public meeting laws come into play on that?"
It's too bad someone didn't take the opportunity to see just how ridgid that "rule" was. It would be interesting if threatening a Title 18 suit would get them to buckle, especially with the conspiracy charges that would accompany...
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that would really get the ball moving.
Posted by MachineShedFred | January 23, 2009 4:10 PM