Not looking good

Though it's too early to know, I doubt if I can gather the necessary troops for the City Hall songfest. For starters, most musical types in the city, apparently like most in the arts generally, at least those on record, support the mayor by completely disregarding the fraud issue and misrepresenting events as a sexual issue, which conveniently lets them decide opponents of the mayor are homophobes. This little dance is the most comic ideological mumbo-jumbo I've witnessed in decades! Otherwise well-meaning, bright, progressive humans endorse political fraud! A wonder to behold.

The Slate article referenced below is the best treatment I've seen of the double standard at work in the subtext of all this. So in the larger picture, all this is about sex -- the cultural response is about sex, and the double standard at play. Again, were Adams hetero and Breedlove a hot high school cheerleader, well, duh, Adams would have been gone long ago, over the sex issue itself. But what so many of us abhor, if maybe not so many in the ha-ha-progressive arts community, is the calculating ambition and fraud of the cover-up. This was an election based on lies, period. This is the real political issue. And it's so easily solved: have another election based on the truth. But Adams damn well knows how that would turn out, and so does his "the ends justify the means" supporters. So we have to wait six months to do this legally, an absurd law that needs to be changed.

The damage to Portland from all this will be long and lasting. If Adams truly, truly had the best interests of the city at heart, he would have resigned already and spared the city the long process that will continue to fracture any sense of civic unity.

R.I.P. Portland