Portland Mayor Sam Adams was set to give a speech on ethics at PSU on Friday, but the mentor-sex kerfuffle led him to cancel. The quote from PSU according to Willamette Week:
“He just pulled out,” PSU spokesman Scott Gallagher says.
Ouch. My sides hurt.
Seriously, though, one of the commenters had an exceptionally good point, which, of course, Adams doesn’t appear to have through of on his own:
caveman writes on Jan 21st, 2009 5:24pm
you know, if the guy had integrity and really was sorry he would re-write his ethics speech to cover the current situation and give it anyway. He missed a real opportunity to cover “ethics and social responsibility” in a more meaningful way.