Tomorrow, a campaign funded by Columbia Sportswear Co. CEO Tim Boyle is filing a petition to recall Sam Adams, the gay Portland mayor who was caught romancing a minor:
Wednesday is the one-year anniversary of a press conference in which Adams told a packed room of reporters he’d remain in office. Adams admitted a day earlier to an affair with former legislative intern Beau Breedlove shortly after Breedlove turned 18. Adams previously denied having a relationship with Breedlove after 2007 rumors surfaced that the two had been involved when Breedlove was 17. …
The recall group must collect 32,183 signatures by April 20. The city would have 10 calendar days to verify the signatures, then Adams would have a five-day period to decide whether to resign or submit a formal justification for remaining in office. If he remained, a recall election would take place on June 8.
In related news, Breedlove plans to capitalize on this whole debacle by writing a memoir.
Too bad this wasn’t in Moscow Idaho, then it could have been a minor miner.
Just Out’s editor is so excited, I’m sure. I can’t wait to read “DISGRACED FUTURE-FORMER MAYOR ADAMS SHOULD FACE FIRING SQUAD, DRAWING, QUARTERING FOR ABUSE OF PUBLIC TRUST” in their memorial edition.
All ads will be paid for by Sho and Bob Ball.
@1 Please stop telling people you’re from Seattle, Will.
Though luck with that, since he is gay he can seek out seventeen year old boys and the people of Portland seem to be fine with that.
I guess there are a whole lot of people out there who will never buy another Columbia Sportswear product. At least I hope there are.
I assume mama Gert Boyle concurs, if she’s not too busy testing zippers?
Any recommendations for fag-friendly or fag-neutral outdoor gear?
@6: Don’t you mean preying-on-underage-boys-friendly outdoor gear?
in America, regardless of the ill fortunes of the publishing industry, everyone gets to write a ^memoir^.
@7, insufficient evidence for prosecution = presumption of innocence. Guess we’ll have to wait for Beau’s memoir. Or rather, the blog postings re: Beau’s memoir.
@7 w2+1rd, FTW.
Looking for someone to repair my “care” meter.
@4: 17-year-old boys like Breedlove generally do not have to be sought – they usually show up on your doorstep unsought and unsolicited. Sexual seeking frequently goes – so to speak – both ways.
If Loveschild is awarding my post a FTW I’m going to have to rethink my position. (Almost as unwelcome as one of Will’s ridiculous FTWs.)
sadly, Loveschild is right, bigyaz. Congrats.
@10, that’s a postal code in London. Don’t try to be hip.
@11, here’s a new one–free!
And look, would I want my purely hypothetical 15-year-old son doing a summer “work exploratory” program in Adams’s office? No. Life goes on.
I’m guessing Breedlove will use a different ghost-writer than Sarah Palin did.
I’ll be just as eager to read his memoir as I was to read Palin’s. Which is to say: not at all.
@4, nothing happened until after Breedlove was 18. You seem to think Adams is getting some kind of pass for being gay, which is not the case.
@5, I didn’t shop much at Columbia Sportswear before, but I definitely won’t buy any of their products now.
I’m very pleased to see Breedlove has moved to P-town and started his own blog. Not exactly the Daily Dish yet:
When you’re down and troubled, who are you supposed to call on? The day has been long, the night is cold. You want to roll over and hold that special person. The love you wait for during the day, and wish for at night should be there for you, right? They’re the one you call on, and wait for to come running.
But so many times we find a difference. One sees the day in a bright tint, while we find it gloomy without hope or inspiration. What then? you can’t crawl into the arms of someone who doesnt understand why you need to be held. Or can you?
Well, can you?
http://beaubreedlove.wordpress.com/
Yes, lets waste taxpayer dollars with one recall effort after another because the gay mayor, who has been cleared of wrong doing, offended some right wing, religious crazy nuts with a relationship with another adult gay man.
Kudos to Rob (#19) for hitting the nail on the head. Also, even if Breedlove was 17 I’m pretty sure that’s above (or equal to) the age of consent in all US states.
@20: So if he didn’t break a law it’s all good? No moral code?
21, The law is the code by which we govern, not some random made up code contrived by hypocritical wackos bent on ousting a man from office because he is gay.
Beau Breedlove is just an attention whore.
@20: Despite being fairly progressive in many other areas, Oregon is one of relatively few states with an age of consent of 18 in all situations.
http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm