Sam Adams Recall Effort Gains Ground

The effort to recall Portland, Ore.'s gay mayor Sam Adams is gaining momentum -- to the tune of more than 500 volunteers, according to the website Salem-News.com.

The effort to recall Portland, Ore.'s gay mayor Sam Adams is gaining momentum -- to the tune of more than 500 volunteers, according to the website Salem-News.com .

Starting July 1, volunteers can begin to collect the 50,000 signatures needed to get the recall on the ballot. The campaign will have 90 days to collect the signatures. A spokesperson said they're hoping to sign up 2,000 volunteers and collect $20,000 in donations.

Back in January, Adams admitted to Oregon's Willamette Week newspaper that back in 2005 he'd had a relationship with Beau Breedlove, who was 18 years old at the time.

Adams maintained that they were never intimate while Breedlove was a minor, but last month, The Oregonian reported that Adams had called Breedlove 33 times before his 18th birthday. The newspaper subsequently called for Adams's resignation.

The newspaper editorial concluded that even though the investigation continues, the Breedlove matter "undercuts [Adams's] capacity to be effective for the city."

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Name: susan
Date posted: 6/10/2009 3:17:00 PM
Hometown: portland

Comment:
just clarifying Mario's comment: Beau Breedlove was an intern for a state senator in Salem, 45 miles south of Portland, and not an intern for Sam or the city of portland. Sam had no power over beau or his career, but I imagine the fact that sam was a city commissioner at the time was incredibly attractive to beau.
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Name: susan martin
Date posted: 6/10/2009 3:10:00 PM
Hometown: portland

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The Oregonian called for the Mayor's resignation within 48 hours of the scandal breaking, not after the phone records were published. Whatever happened to due process? and this is the same paper that said Bill Clinton - long after every sordid detail of the Monica Lewinsky affair had come out and Bill had wagged his finger at us - should NOT resign. The thing to remember is that Sam Adams is doing great things for Portland. I hear story after story about his ability to lead, to have vision, balance the budget, etc. I've seen his effectiveness at every turn; the oregonian folks just have to support their own hasty judgement and make themselves relevant, which they're not. and the recall folks need to gather a little more than 32,000 signatures from registered Portland voters, not 50,000 signatures.
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Name: Alex
Date posted: 6/10/2009 10:19:00 AM
Hometown: Merida, Mexico

Comment:
Mario NAILED IT ON THE HEAD. If this was a straight politician this would have blown over by now and the conservative men would have been giving a wink! MOVE ON PEOPLE!
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Name: Mark M
Date posted: 6/10/2009 10:11:00 AM
Hometown: Oakland

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I'm ok with the recall effort. This is a man who, even if we believe their accounting, dated a 17 year old boy and bopped him right when he turned 18. Not a very honorable man, in my eyes. The whole thing is a distraction, and he should go someplace less public to sort it out.
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Name: Bob Smullen
Date posted: 6/10/2009 7:38:00 AM
Hometown: Hackensack, NJ

Comment:
I am beginning to think that maybe "The Oregonian" could be right. It may be that Adams was (and is) interested in sex. So to satisfy "The Oregonian", maybe all males who run for office should be castrated. I am not sure how to control the sex drive of females, so maybe females should be banned from running for office until medical science figures out how to do this. This would no doubt satisfy the Taliban, but will it be enough to satisfy the righteous folks at "The Oregonian"?
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Name: Mario
Date posted: 6/9/2009 8:56:00 PM
Hometown: Portland

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This is a huge waste of money. Anyone who knows anything about this knows that Beau Breedlove is a golddigging attention starved slut who will do anything for money. Sam Adams may have made a foolish decision to get involved with Breedlove (18 isnt illegal by the way) but it was Beau who practically stalked Adams. Also, Sam Adams is hardly the first politician to get involved with an intern or have a relationship with someone younger. Most of the people who want to recall Adams are homophobic conservatives who never wanted him elected in the first place.
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Name: Javier
Date posted: 6/9/2009 7:08:00 PM
Hometown: Houston

Comment:
Stop the recall! It's unjust.

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