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...short of the 64,000 he needed in Texas, and is suing to get the May 10 deadline extended. He could have secured a place on Oregon's ballot by bringing together 1,000 voters for a single event, but only 750 showed for his rally last month in Portland--where more than 7,000 came to hear...
...March 2, commission chair Linn was in Washington on a college-scouting trip with her son. A county official called Linn on her cell phone to tell her that Sowle's final opinion had been issued. Linn gave the go order. Back in Portland, commissioner Roberts--who had successfully been kept in the dark since January--heard about the impending marriages on his pickup truck's radio...
...certainly changed the life of county chair Linn. The 45-year-old Portland native faces a recall effort, one that the left-of-center Oregonian has endorsed. Good-government types have excoriated Linn and the complicit commissioners for their concealment. "If they can't be trusted to make a momentous decision in an open, fair and respectful manner, they shouldn't be trusted to direct the daily operation of county government," thundered the Oregonian. "They have proved themselves unfit for public office...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...former client of Mayfield's connects him to a high-profile U.S. terrorism case. In a 2002 child-custody dispute, Mayfield represented Jeffrey Battle, one of the so-called Portland Seven, a suspected terrorist cell. Battle pleaded guilty last year to trying to join the Taliban to fight the U.S. in 2001. Some in the cell attended the same mosque as Mayfield, who converted to Islam in 1989 when he married a Muslim, according to his aunt Beth Vanetta of Halstead, Kans. Vanetta calls Mayfield a "fairly devout Muslim" and "not at all volatile ... the last person in the family...