https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2020/04/10/the-city-of-portlands-tells-publicly-financed-candidates-to-quit-offering-donors-money-to-non-profits/
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"The City of Portland's Tells"
"(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception."
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i.e. "giving it away"----A Tell.
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": to cheat or deceive (someone) especially by doing something that is different from what you said you would do. double-cross. verb. dou·ble-cross | \ ˌdə-bəl-ˈkrȯs \ double-crossed; double-crossing."
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"Both Hurst and Eudaly said they had consulted the city's Open and Accountable Elections office before publicizing their pitches.
But Dan Meek, a lawyer active in election issues, pointed out to WW that city code prohibited using campaign donations as the candidates proposed.
Open and Accountable Elections director Mottet and Commissioner Amanda Fritz agreed with Meek and acknowledged that Mottet had made a mistake in OK'ing the campaign pitches.
In an April 7 email to candidates, Mottet gave new guidance.
"I had specifically advised certified candidates that they may collect matchable contributions from donors, donate the contribution to a nonprofit, and use the 6-to-1 match for campaign expenses. That was incorrect. It is a blanket prohibition, with an exception only for purchasing tickets for an event that the campaign attends," Mottet wrote.
"I regret that campaigns that relied on my advice got called out in the press for doing so."
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"Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum Returns Campaign Contributions to Terry Bean, Who Was Re-Indicted on Sex Crime Charges Today"
"Bean is a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates, including the state's top law enforcement official."
"At 2:06 pm today, the Committee to Elect Ellen Rosenblum Attorney General made a filing in the state's campaign finance database disclosing that the committee was returning a series of contributions from Bean dating back to 2012 and totaling $2,150.
(Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to Richard Meeker, the co-owner of WW's parent company.)
Today's refund marks the second time Rosenblum has given money back to Bean.
In 2016, when Rosenblum last ran for re-election, she refunded $1,300 in contributions she'd previously accepted."
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"When former Portland Mayor Sam Adams announced Jan. 15 he'd challenge City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly in the May 2020 primary election, nobody was more surprised than the incumbent herself.
"I just don't think it's a good look," she told The Oregonian. "It doesn't make sense."
With an unprecedented four of five seats on the Portland City Council up for grabs, Adams had choices—and the path of least resistance appeared to be the vacancy created by the Jan. 2 death of Commissioner Nick Fish."
"Adams' calculation broke with Portland's historical queasiness around challenging incumbents but was hardly without precedent. Eudaly won her seat in 2016 by upsetting incumbent Commisioner Steve Novick.
But the pushback still makes sense: Adams' bid threatens years of gains by outsiders who have placed women in the majority at City Hall. Adams, who spent 20 years in City Hall ending in 2013, is the ultimate insider—and could wrest power back from people who just got it.
But Adams' decision also has its logic: Eudaly has made enemies among neighborhood associations, business groups and landlords. "
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/01/22/sam-adams-chose-a-cage-match-with-chloe-eudaly-that-surprising-choice-will-have-fallout/
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"Attorney Dan Meek, who authored the Portland and Multnomah County initiatives, said the bill would allow a wealthy individual to still route as much as $400,000 to a single candidate by funneling small amounts through numerous intermediate state political committees."
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/05/campaign-finance-bill-clears-hurdle-with-loopholes-intact.html
"An Oregon House committee on Thursday advanced a bill to limit political campaign donations, pushing aside withering criticism from advocates who said the legislation contained loopholes that could render it nearly useless.
House Bill 2714 would cap contributions to House and Senate candidates at $1,000 and $1,500, and statewide candidates at $2,800. (For general election candidates the limits would effectively be twice as high, with a donor able to give once in the primary and again in the general election.) Today, Oregon is one of just five states with no limits at all."
"The legislation also allows donors to route money through the campaigns of Oregon candidates for federal office, who would be allowed to give unlimited amounts to Oregon party committees."
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Anyone seen Gordon Sondland lately? How about Phil "Sweatshop" Knight?
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