If you’re not from Portland, well, we’ve got a scandal. It’s like the whole Lewinski thing, except he’s only a mayor, and he’s gay, but the bimbo is still jailbait. It’s put a damper on the whole Obama-fueled euphoria, which I think a lot of this city feels somewhat entitled to.
The episode is causing Carrie Brownstein to examine Portland’s “constant dialog with itself.” I’m not sure if any city would have reacted differently to this “scandal” (I think it’s more of a “kerfuffle”), but her observation that it has caused an unusual divide in a city that prides itself on being “different” — yet suffers from a striking homogeneity of opinion — is a good one.
update: head-slapper from today’s demonstrations: ”I’m upset that all this Jesus crap has been brought into this,” screamed Nate Kockenour. “I’d have to call myself a little more tolerant than these people right here.”
“Whoa whoa whoa, you’re offending me right there,” said John Hoad, a Christian, carrying a sign reading “Resign Sam.”
