I guess he was against it before he was for it....or is it the other way around?
I predict another dreary 4 years, of more city B/S, cr-apartments, toy trains, car haters, debt, businesses going out of business, plagues, locusts, and famine.....

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19054-the_road_to_hales.html
Hales is also a classic revolving-door politician. He set fundraising records in his 2000 re-election campaign with donations from city contractors. Two years later, he abandoned his City Council seat to work for a city contractor trying to break into the streetcar business.
He’s back, portraying himself as a concerned citizen—“I’m a Portland guy,” he likes to say. But he only recently returned to the city, after living in Washington state, where he avoided paying tens of thousands in Oregon income taxes. At the same time, he kept voting in Oregon—possibly violating state elections law by voting as a nonresident. (See "State of Charlie" on page 2.)
Hales says he’s committed to Portland, and his ethics are unimpeachable.
“People need to know there’ll never be that terrible day where you open the newspaper and say, ‘Oh no!’ That will not come with me,” Hales says. “People may not always agree with me. Of course that’s the case, if you do anything at all in public. There will never be a day when anyone has a reason to question my integrity.”

Very interesting. Some do remember such terrible days of opening the newspaper about Hales when he was Commissioner and people saying just that - "Oh No!!"

To quote the Alex Winter short film "Entering Texas," "He's just greasing the pan, dear. It's, um, special grease."

Only a fool would donate to a candidate when you can just wait until after the votes are tallied and then buy influence directly from the winner.

There are only two risks: he may not stay bought, or he could quit the Mayor's job and move to Washington. Like any Oregon politician would ever get away with that!

I am sure this sort of practice is commonplace amongst elected officials. Nevertheless, it certainly looks like a flat out bribe that would make Neil "Daley" Goldschmidt proud. Perhaps there should be a pool to bet on how many no-bid construction contracts will be handed out to the guests at this post election fundraiser.

To quote Ash from "The Army of Darkness":

"Oh, that's just what we call pillow talk, Baby, that's all."

You did call him Char-Lie.