JANUARY 20, 2006
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Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn is getting
guff for creating a newsletter funded by
public dollars.
Mudslinging Goes Digital
The Oregonian, invested in the muddy campaign
between Multnomah County Chair
Diane Linn and her opponent,
Eagle Scout Ted Wheeler, spot
lighted Linn's newsletter, The Linn
Line, as an abuse of public funds in
a Jan. 10 article.
Cascade AIDS Project’s former
executive
director,
Thomas
Bruner, who now works as Linn’s
senior policy development director, described the
newsletter as a response to people who wanted
more communication.
But critics, expressly Liz Kaufman, an adviser to
Wheeler, said the newsletter is “a blatant example
of using taxpayer dollars for self-promotion.”
The newsletter, which discusses Linn’s opinions
on subjects such as jail beds and school funding,
will cost approximately $3,000 during the next six
months out of her administrative budget, The
Oregonian reports.
Meanwhile, Linn’s opposition has launched a
secondary Web site. Wheeler unrolled
MultnomahCountyWatch.com, bringing atten
tion to some of the more sensational elements of
Diane Linn's opponent, Ted Wheeler, has
launched an attack Web site,
the election, such as squabbling between Linn and
fellow female commissioners. This portrayal of the
board of professional policy makers
as a squad of teenyboppers engaging
in a cat fight might make for a sala
cious skim, but a quick wipe reveals
mud just below the surface.
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Fruitcakes OK
with Pirates
Manager of Pirate’s Cove, a row
dy drinking establishment on Northeast Sandy
Boulevard, plead ignorance concerning the dis
criminating qualities of the bar’s holiday sign, “No
Fruitcakes Please.”
He said the sign was meant to be a joke for the
holiday season after several customers donated the
heavy desserts to the bar and not even ravenously
hungry patrons would touch the crumbly cakes.
“When it was brought to my attention that it
was an anti-alternative lifestyle slogan, 1 immedi
ately changed the sign,” said Zoth Daskalos, man
ager at Pirate’s Cove since December. “We’re not
like that at all. We fully encourage all people to
come in.”
rricane Katrina Aid
Mercy Corps
iOur House
National Gay
& Lesbian Taskforce
R&'M/X equity group
Lesbian Community
Habitat for
Humanity
Basic Rights
Oregon
ACLU
Minority Among a Minority
The Asian Reporter shed light on a much-
needed organization suffering from low visibility,
Asian/Pacific Islander Lesbians and Gays.
APLG is a 30-member support group that regu
larly plans potlucks, hiking, cultural performances
and river rafting trips, according to the article,
which appeared Jan. 3. Members took strides in
bridging understanding within the sometimes tra
ditional and conservative Asian culture.
“We’re just like you. We have our own chal
lenges every day, whether it’s at work, at the play
ground or at school. Many of our experiences are
the same,” APLG president Meei J. Lum told The
Asian Reporter. “We’re really no different from oth
er people except for one very small but very crucial
part of our lives, where the people that we love are
not always accepted by society.”
Passersby of Pirate's Cove were met with this
unwelcoming holiday greeting.
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