Life has got to be a bit uncomfortable these days for Governor Ted Kulongoski, who finds himself under some pressure to talk about what he knew (and didn't know) about ex-Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual relationship with his fourteen-year-old babysitter. There are calls for Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto to step down.

Now Goldschmidt's former speechwriter, Fred Leonhardt, is back in the news with renewed claims that he twice told Kulongoski, who was Attorney General when the scandal broke in 1996, about allegations of child abuse charges committed by Goldschmidt while he was serving as the Mayor of Portland in the early 1970's.

Here's an interesting question worth of some consideration: If Fred Leonhardt was that concerned about Goldschmidt's behavior, where was his police report to the local authorities? Why not contact the Department of Human Services on his own, rather than take the gossip route?

Now the Oregon State Bar will force Kulongoski to go on the record to state what he knew (or didn't know) back in 1996. But if Leonhardt wants to brag about a continued relationship over the past decade he had (or didn't have) with the Governor to Steve Duin at the Oregonian, then maybe he should be able to answer the tough question himself.