Reply #7: It already was, and they did. [View All]

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I wonder if the mayor was straight, and the teenage in question was a woman, if the headline would have been "Ore. to investigate straight mayor’s affair with teen."

It already happened, and they kind of did. Neil Goldschmidt. Though it happened more than ten years after the fact and Neil had been done with being Governor for some time.

There's a big difference anyway between this and any situation that seems similar. One big difference is, that even though Beau Breedlove was on the cusp of the age of consent, it was apparently (barring the release of any subsequent infos) consensual.

The headline notwithstanding, the anger most Portlanders feel, refreshingly, have nothing to do with Sam's sexual orientation. The anger has to do with being played for fools by Sam. When this happened back in 07, and Sam played the victim and slimed Bob Ball in return, a lot of us defended him; he had years of goodwill and he spent that capital with a vengeance.

I, for one, still like Sam. He had great ideas and great plans, and was a real rags-to-riches (so to speak) success story. But you can't simply repair shattered trust like that with an apology, no matter how sincere.