From PortlandAfoot

Neil Goldschmidt is a former Portland city councilman, former Portland mayor, former Oregon governor and former U.S. secretary of transportation who as mayor championed the development of the MAX light rail system, Pioneer Courthouse Square and Tom McCall Waterfront Park and helped block construction of the Mount Hood Freeway.

"Saying Goldschmidt was mayor," Willamette Week once wrote, "is like saying Mozart wrote music."

Goldschmidt was widely considered the most influential figure in Oregon politics, both as an elected public official and as a lobbyist and policy consultant, until an investigation by Willamette Week revealed him to have had sex, reportedly over a period of three years, with an underage City Hall intern who had also worked as his children's babysitter, when she was 14 to 17 years old and he was 35 to 38.

[edit] See also

• Neil Goldschmidt's confession to The Oregonian, describing his statutory rape of the girl as an "affair"

[edit] External links

• Wikipedia entry
• Willamette Week investigation of Goldschmidt and his victim
• column by Willamette Week publisher Richard Meeker, praising Goldschmidt's virtues and mourning his sin
• Portland Tribune story listing Goldschmidt's many political relationships
• Willamette Week illustration detailing Goldschmidt's many political relationships
• Willamette Week article disclosing the victim's identity