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...most exciting event since the expedition of Lewis and Clark recently hit the state of Oregon. Sam Adams—the openly gay mayor of Portland who had been hailed as America’s “great gay hope”—was embroiled in scandal last month when he confessed to lying about an affair he’d had with an 18-year-old political intern named Beau Breedlove. Despite the fact that Adams denied the affair throughout the course of his mayoral campaign, Breedlove insists that he welcomed Adam’s advances...
...Does it haunt me? Yes, it does. And I'm not afraid to admit that." - On his handling of the sex-abuse scandal, calling the issue the most challenging of his tenure in Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
...Herculean fundraiser, helped his archdiocese avoid bankruptcy amid the lawsuits that followed the priest sexual-abuse scandal. He effectively closed a $3 million budget deficit in 2008 and also started a fundraising campaign that he claims has raised $57.5 million in pledges, more than halfway to its goal...
...beloved Milwaukee priest known for his jocular demeanor (he once said Mass in a bright orange Wisconsin-cheesehead hat) and for restoring the archdiocese's reputation following a sex scandal, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, 59, is set to be the next Archbishop of New York City, perhaps the nation's most prominent pulpit. Dolan inherits the second largest archdiocese in the United States, with 2.5 million Catholics in nearly 400 churches, on April 15. Known as a staunch defender of church orthodoxy, he is succeeding retiring Cardinal Edward Egan at a crucial time: the church in New York City faces...
...briefly involved in the 1996 Clinton campaign fundraising scandal that involved donors suspected of being Chinese government operatives. A congressional committee eventually cleared him of any involvement, and he returned several checks from people linked to the scandal...