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...Last year was a time for celebration...but now is a time to recognize that the rights and privileges we have, others are trying to take them away,” said Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, speaking before the crowded chamber...
...position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, Calif., who headed the diocese in Portland, Ore., before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which temper his conservative positions on most doctrinal issues. For example, though a vocal opponent of Mayor Gavin Newsom's flurry of gay weddings last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least 68 lawsuits over alleged...
...couldn't if he wanted to. The paper had also printed, in humiliating detail, Internet exchanges between the mayor and its hired computer-forensics expert posing as a 17-year-old boy. Over three months, the former federal agent, under the screen name Moto-Broc, engaged the man who called himself Cobra82nd and RightBi-Guy in instant-message conversations. The exchanges are in turns offensive, ironic and saddening. West is the first to bring up the topic of sex with a boy who says he's 17. But when Moto-Broc complains that his parents don't give him enough...
...revealed his identity, expressed a more pragmatic concern. "Someday I may run for Governor, and this would be bad if you know what I mean," he wrote. Of course, Moto-Broc never made it to the rendezvous. But three people from the Spokesman-Review were there to witness the mayor's hopeful arrival...
West has refused to resign, but he is taking what city spokeswoman Marlene Feist calls "a vacation ... to sort this situation out." So far, few Republican leaders have demanded he step down. One exception is Shaun Cross, a Spokane conservative who ran for Congress last year. The mayor, he says, "has created a tsunami of hypocrisy." Feist says Spokane's response has been mixed. Some people have called in sounding supportive, some upset. Still others say West is in their prayers. --Reported by Sandeep Kaushik/Spokane