Posted: 5/23/2009 5:25:57 PM EDT
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Seeing how I am about to partake of Sam Adam's finest, how about a favorite quotation:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Seems oddly appropriate to today's gaggle of politicians. |
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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." A different time. A different caliber of individual. |
Portland gay publication calls for Mayor Sam Adams' resignation by Lisa Grace Lednicer and Steve Duin, The Oregonian Wednesday January 21, 2009, 4:10 PM Ross William Hamilton Stephen Young, of Lake Oswego, protested Mayor Sam Adams outside City Hall today. More on Adams • Latest news and previous coverage Marty Davis, publisher of the gay-oriented publication Just Out, is calling for Portland Mayor Sam Adams' resignation. "I feel at this point, his character has a deep flaw," Davis said today. "You lie when you're 15 until you start growing up. You don't lie when you're 42. ... We're having to deal with our icon, our gay mayor, lied to us." Adams is the first openly gay man elected to the highest office in a top-30 U.S. city. "By his own admission, by committing the act of lying to the citizens of Portland, Adams has failed to show the principled character that this publication feels is a basic requirement for an elected official," the editorial said. Adams, meanwhile, told The Oregonian this afternoon that he has not yet decided whether he will resign or mount a fight to remain at City Hall in the wake of his confession that he lied about having sex with an 18-year-old. "I've not made my mind up," Adams said, sounding discouraged and deflated. "I still haven't determined whether it's in the city's best interest for me to stay or go." Adams noted he spent the afternoon "calling people, asking for ... well, listening to them. Apologizing. Personally. And asking for their advice on whether I should stay or go." Asked whether he would reach a final decision about his political future, Adams said, "I still haven't talked to a broad representative of the stakeholders group in the city. Today, I'm just reaching out and taking it all in. I don't want to take too much time (but) I was supposed to be out through tomorrow anyway, and I want to take the time to do this outreach, get the feedback and reflect on it." Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian Mayor Sam Adams publicly apologized Tuesday for events surrounding his sexual relationship with a teenager. Adams admitted this week that he lied in 2007 as his mayoral campaign started up when he denied a sexual relationship with a young legislative intern. Adams says he met 17-year-old Beau Breedlove in 2004, but waited to have a relationship with him until after Breedlove turned 18. Adams also acknowledged that he asked Breedlove to lie about their relationship. The Oregonian also called for Adams' resignation in an editorial this morning |
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Mayor Sam Adams stopped by reporters to talk about his calls to Beau Breedlove—but not the budget—on May 1 at City Hall.
BY BETH SLOVIC | bslovic at wweek dot com [May 6th, 2009] Even when he’s not causing three-car collisions in shopping-center parking lots, Mayor Sam Adams has his foot firmly planted on the accelerator these days. “We’re getting a lot of work done,” Adams told a swarm of reporters on Friday, when his plan to roll out a budget got drowned by news in that morning’s Oregonian about his 2005 phone calls to Beau Breedlove. “We’re delivering on the critical services Portlanders are asking for.” It’s true no one can quibble with Adams on the number—or the sheer complexity—of the tasks he’s undertaken since taking office. But many can and do disagree with the mayor on the degree of thoughtfulness he’s brought to bear on those projects. Among them: the on-again-off-again-on-again baseball-soccer deal with Merritt Paulson, the proposed “headquarters hotel” near the Oregon Convention Center, a 12-lane Columbia River Crossing, and Adams’ latest pitch—his push to take over Multnomah County’s bridges. While Adams races around (see wweek.com for more on the collision he and his pickup caused May 3) and as the threat of Oregon Attorney General John Kroger’s criminal investigation hangs like Kryptonite over City Hall, WW stopped to consider the questions of the day. What’s the meaning of last week’s Oregonian story on Adams’ phone calls to Breedlove? The Oregonian’s investigation of Adams’ private phone records revealed Adams called Breedlove 33 times before Breedlove turned 18. That suggests Adams had more contact with Breedlove than the mayor had acknowledged previously, even though he had never specifically stated how many times he had called Breedlove. The story also suggested the two may have been in City Hall at a First Thursday party earlier than both Breedlove and Adams have indicated—when Breedlove was a couple months younger. Months earlier, Breedlove told The Oregonian he and Adams kissed in the City Hall bathroom at a First Thursday event on June 2, 2005. Adams’ public calendar says he was out of town that week. Finally, the story included new—and conflicting—information from two City Hall security guards. One guard, Glenn Clark, recalled how another guard, Jacoby Demissie, told him he “just saw Sam Adams having sex with this younger guy in the bathroom.” Demissie denies that. Breedlove, who denies that anything more than a kiss took place, acknowledges a guard entered the restroom when he was there with Adams. But Breedlove says the guard was white, and Demissie is African-American. Adams, who has said he had sex with Breedlove only after Breedlove turned 18, has refused to respond to the latest revelations. |
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Seeing how I am about to partake of Sam Adam's finest, how about a favorite quotation: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Seems oddly appropriate to today's gaggle of politicians. You have Utopias?? |
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