Among the items addressed in this week's collection of marginally thought out missives: edible marijuana products and a mysterious SPELL CASTER—and I'm not even talking about Francine, who seems to be casting some spells of her own around here... Spells of love! (Such a cliché, guys!)
RE: "The John Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes Scandal: A Handy Primer" [Blogtown, Feb 13], summarizing the events leading up to the governor's resignation.
Between conflicts of interest and tax evasion, Cylvia is just screwed. But here are the real problematic parts for Kitz (that we know about so far): Telling associates that Hayes is looking for consulting work, and then giving them state jobs shortly after they help find some work for her. Telling state employees to hire the Demos official. Less concrete is simply letting Hayes get away with all this stuff from his home and the gov's office. Hard to argue detachment when you live and work and are engaged to the corrupt individual. The most worrisome part of this to me as an Oregonian is that he likely didn't think that any of this was unethical, much less illegal...
