It’s time for Portland to embrace the vision Obama brings for a new politics, and the first step is to recall Mayor Sam Adams.
An opposing view, which begins...
The hysteria over Mayor Sam Adams’ romantic life has mostly died down. Except for a few die-hards who can’t seem to get Adam’s sex life out of their dreams, most Portlanders have moved on.
The opposition can't get it out of their heads that we actually don't care about the mayor's sex life. Personally I think the age of consent should be 15. So what? This is completely about lying to get elected. It is about orchestrating a fraudulent election. And I find it depressing that otherwise good "liberals" like the history professor don't give a rat's ass about this. Progressives who support the mayor depress me as much as right wing whackos do, and this city has too many of both.
In this same issue, the Tribune supports the recall (for reasons much like my own):
Adams ought to face recall not because of his politics, but because he lied in order to win an election — and he did so after exercising extraordinarily poor judgment by becoming sexually involved with a teenager.
Adams’ deceptions influenced the outcome of the 2008 mayor’s race, and without a recall election, Portland voters will have no other opportunity to make a fully informed decision about whether they want Adams to continue as mayor. We urge Portlanders to sign the recall petitions now circulating and force Adams to be accountable for his behavior.
Full editorial
This is a sensible attitude. Want the mayor? Fine, vote for him in a new HONEST election.
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