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...Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss, who had persisted in pressing the younger man to speak on the record. Wrote Breedlove: "I'm scared. If the story goes to print without me saying anything, I'm worried I will look like a scumbag. If I do say anything, then Sam's fate is in my hands." (Read a 1956 TIME story about another scandal in Portland...
...cast of the scandal in Portland, Ore., has a certain ring to it: Sam Adams. Bob Ball. Beau Breedlove and his dog Lolita ... "Everyone has porn names!" says Mark Wiener with a laugh. "Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that the worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former - and now disheartened - campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then...
...legal consent in Oregon. But in an interview published on Jan. 25 in the Oregonian, Breedlove suggested that he shared a passionate kiss with Adams in a city-hall bathroom while he was still underage. Says Leonard: "The part that bothers me is that I defended Sam back in 2007 more so than anybody else." Referring to Adams' admission that he asked Breedlove to lie about their relationship, Leonard says, "I was troubled that he called Beau and asked him to lie ... Why would he ask [Breedlove] to lie about a consensual relationship between adults...
...were killed and seven injured in a shooting outside an under-21 nightclub last weekend. Only 10 days earlier, there had been a gang-related shooting in broad daylight. How does a public servant go about his duties with so much public outrage and sniggering? "This is something between Sam and Portland," says Wiener. "Sam's got some repair work he needs...
Where to hold the detainees is a more difficult question. A proposal to move some of them to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas met with fierce bipartisan opposition from the state's Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius, and its Republican Senators, Sam Brownback and Lynn Jenkins. Other states may prove equally resistant. Sarah E. Mendelson of CSIS says the best solution may be to scatter the Gitmo detainees across several jails. "There's no need for them to be in one place, in one prison," she says...