A board member of the Mount Tabor Neighborhood Association:

Sam’s downfall is not about sex. It is about lying. We now know that he never sought to mentor the young man who became his sexual partner. That lie unraveled in front of the Oregonian editorial board. We know that people who had Sam’s best interests in mind warned him away from the boy.

The Buffalo news picks up the Associated Press on the Ruiz question:

Also hurting Adams are revelations that he hired a newspaper reporter who had earlier been looking into rumors that he had had sex with a minor. She now works for Adams as a planning and sustainability policy adviser.

Adams insists he did not hire Amy Ruiz to keep her from looking into his past. And Ruiz says she was hired because of her experience in communications, which, she added, makes up most of her job.

"The allegations or insinuations that my reporting had anything to do with my hiring" are untrue, she told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Ruiz said she made a round of phone calls about the story in May but did not turn up any evidence of Adams' relationship with a young man named Beau Breedlove. Her editor decided against running a story.

OPB talks about the role of the media in policing its politicians:

Nigel Jaquiss: “This is not a story about sex, and it’s not a story about sexual preferences. The fact that Sam Adams is openly gay is really irrelevant to this story. This is a story about a politician who has lied, and who has then had to deal with that vulnerability.”...

But not everyone’s praising Willamette Week’s diligence. New city commissioner Amanda Fritz questions whether the public is served by the story.

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