Oregon: Sam Adams

June 1, 2009 - 12:36 pm
NEWS FEED: Jack Bog's Blog

"Everyman Paulson might leave if he doesn't get his way"

I see that John Canzano, America's greatest sports columnist (at least in some people's minds), has joined the Merritt Paulson royal fan club. Canzano went out to the Paulson compound in Lake Oswego for a visit, and based on that encounter has pronounced LLP just a "regular guy." He walks around the house barefoot! He gives his infant child playful "raspberries"! "My dad drove a Ford Bronco; he was always out back, splitting wood in the yard. My mom drove a Volkswagen; always had dirt in her hands, and loved to plant things." The butler made us cut our own veal.

May 18, 2009 - 10:26 am
NEWS FEED: OregonLive.com

I've hit one too many of those "most green" lists

Prolific blogger Jack Bogdanski, a master at tweaking Portland's city leaders, gleefully passes on a "15 greenest mayors" list that fails to include Mayor Sam Adams. The link on his post took me to an MSN city guides site that...

May 15, 2009 - 12:16 pm
NEWS FEED: Rob Kremer

Are they really that small minded?

Over at Bojack.org, there's a post saying that the Sam Adams recall effort is doomed because conservative talk show host Victoria Taft was "front and center" last night at the recall effort's kick-off party.

Bojack says that having conservatives involved will turn off all those groups that are needed to get rid of Adams - unions, Bus Project folks, greenies, etc.

Here is my question: I know that Jack Bogdanski himself is without question sufficiently small minded to actually not support a valid cause just because he politically disagrees with others who do support it. He has displayed his small mindedness time and again on his blog by banning commenters who do nothing more than make points he has trouble contesting.

May 1, 2009 - 12:26 pm
NEWS FEED: OregonLive.com

Another "bad fact" for Sam Adams

Ryan Frank and Brent Walth of The Oregonian reported Friday morning that phone records showed that Portland Mayor Sam Adams called Beau Breedlove more than 30 times when the latter was under 18. In the ongoing saga of whether Adams...

April 30, 2009 - 01:38 am
NEWS FEED: BlueOregon

Gavin Newsom and Sam Adams trash talk in the battle for electric-car supremacy

It seems that the mayors of San Francisco and Portland are gearing up a fight between their two cities for dominance in the effort to be the first to develop full-scale electric-car usage. Earlier this month, at a press conference, Mayor Sam Adams issued the challenge: "Working with the Governors office, Portland General Electric, and others, we will be announcing the most aggressive in-garage and on-street wired up charging station strategy that I think any city in the United States has sought to achieve. And that even means you Gavin Newsom, who’s trying hard to make the Bay Area the...

March 10, 2009 - 10:47 am
NEWS FEED: BlueOregon

The MLS Deal is Solid: A Wall Street Mogul Says So

Without any apparent sense of irony, the Oregonian this morning offers us up the following in vouching for the deal reached between city negotiators and Merritt Paulson: Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioner Randy Leonard, who negotiated the agreement, said [the] city is getting solid assurances from a wealthy family. Paulson's father is Henry Paulson, the former U.S. treasury secretary and Wall Street mogul. The timing of those "solid assurances" is, well, unfortunate, to put it mildly. On Friday the Congressional panel charged with overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) released its latest report, and this week the panel's chairwoman...

March 8, 2009 - 08:18 am
NEWS FEED: NW Republican

Sam Adams and Randy Leonard do Portland proud

This video has been bouncing around for some time. I had not seen it until the other day.

Can Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard and Mayor Sam Adams be any more immature and, quite frankly,...

March 2, 2009 - 10:41 am
NEWS FEED: OregonLive.com

Seattle mayor cruising despite mediocre polls

Portland Mayor Sam Adams might want to take note: sometimes strong approval ratings aren't everything. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is so far facing no major opposition to a third term this year, despite a recent poll showing him with only...

February 27, 2009 - 07:33 pm
NEWS FEED: OregonLive.com

Adams and friends at the Portland City Club

You might have thought the sold-out audience for Portland Mayor Sam Adams' "State of the City" speech demonstrated that our embattled mayor was in for some tough questioning. The Oregonian/Randy RasmussenMayor Sam Adams But it turns out that members of...

February 23, 2009 - 05:25 pm
NEWS FEED: BlueOregon

Let's Draft Pete DeFazio for Governor

By Ben DuPree of Portland, Oregon. Previously, Ben worked for Jeff Merkley's U.S. Senate campaign, worked for then-Commissioner Sam Adams, consulted with the SEIU, and serves on Metro's Committee for Citizen Involvement. Ben previously blogged at Witigonen and now blogs at Preemptive Karma. Oregon needs Pete DeFazio to run for Governor. To help this along, I have started a blog devoted to the effort: Draft Pete DeFazio. From a purely political perspective, he is the strongest realistic candidate we Democrats can field. By far. Without reading any specific polling, it is fair to say that he has strong name recognition...