Fagan Files III: Since Fagan Files II (our series into the law-bending and partisan behavior of Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan with regard to activities in her agency’s Elections Division) there have been, as they say, developments.
Fagan, having forced the resignation of her former Elections Division director Deborah Scoggin after Scoggin refused to violate agency rules to allow the publication of a voter pamphlet statement submitted by a Democratic candidate for Congress after the applicable deadline, appointed Molly Woon as Elections Division Director. As readers will recall, the Elections Division is supposedly investigating a $500,000 donation to the Democratic Party of Oregon from an associate of alleged crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried just prior to the November 2022 election.
New Elections Division Director Molly Woon will now be in charge of that investigation. Guess where Woon worked up until two years ago when she first went to work for Fagan? The Democratic Party of Oregon, as deputy director! You can’t make this up.
The Oregonian, to its credit, has started covering this mess we’ve been on for a while. Reporter Hillary Borrud wrote an article this week describing Woon’s conflict of interest and setting forth Fagan’s position that, actually, Woon will conduct the investigation in a completely impartial way. LOL.
Portland Population Decline: Multnomah County, which contains 99% of Portland, has now lost population for three years in a row. Willamette Week interviewed some of the people who left and discovered that they left because of crime, homelessness and taxes. Imagine that.
Wendy update: A couple weeks ago, we had homeless outreach worker Kevin Dahlgren on the podcast. Kevin gained some fame for posting an interview of a Portland homeless person named Wendy, who said being homeless in Portland is a “piece of cake.”
Well, Wendy’s family in Utah saw Kevin’s clip and they’ve come out to Portland to try to help Wendy. Here’s KATU’s story on the reunion.
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Jeff
Shemia Fagan thinks we're dumb