Friend says Mayor Adams had sex with Breedlove at age 17
”I just didn’t think too much of it at the time,” he said. “It’s not the first guy who he had sex with that was older than 18. He liked it, obviously. Maybe he just didn’t know that this guy was going to become the mayor of Portland.”
A anonymous friend of Beau Breedlove, the young man caught up in the middle of Portland’s mayoral sex scandal. He claims he received a text message from Breedlove about a physical relationship he was having with an unnamed politician while he was still 17. The newly elected and openly gay mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, insists Breedlove was an 18-year-old adult at the time, but has also lied previously about having any affair with Breedlove at all. (KATU)
”I know this city pretty well. I knew coming clean with this issue would likely spark calls for my resignation from everybody. Understandably, I’ve embarrassed a lot of people in the LGBT community, and the newspaper calling for me to resign is a reflection of the frustration and anger and disappointment that lots of people have. My job is to try to regain their trust. And part of doing that is accepting and embracing people’s own reactions, and going to them, and being with them. And as difficult and as painful as it might be, that’s part of what I feel I need to do to make amends. I’ve been out in the community and will continue to be. I’m not going anywhere.”
Mayor Sam Adams in an interview with Out.com regarding the anger & embarrassment that the gay community of Portland has been expressing over his past relationship with a teenage intern, Beau Breedlove. Adams says he was 42 at time, that Breedlove was 18, and that he is not interested in stepping down even though Just Out, the gay newspaper of Portland, has also added to a number of calls for his resignation. (Out.com)
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