Thanks for writing this.

The rumor is that Knight and Kilkenny have been making large donations to Frohnmayer's Fanconi foundation, and that Knight's donations to UO pay part of his salary. He is their animal, bought and paid for.

The whole business stinks and meanwhile UO is slowly sliding downhill. Frohnmayer could care less about academics, just about whether or not his friends get their basketball arena. What a sad thing to have to say about UO's President.

 

1) Phil Knight is the FORMER president of Nike. He is currently the Chairman of the board.

2) Anon- You're absolutely correct, Phil doesn't care at all about academics . . . He hasn't built a new library, or a new law school or . . . oh wait, I think he and Penny HAVE done that!

 

For at least the last SEVEN YEARS the Housing Authority of Portland, with a presumed client base of 33,000 and an annual budget of around $90,000,000 , has refused to account for:

A. The total number of its clients

B. The location by neighborhood of its clients

C. The income levels as required by means test to qualify for HAP housing

D. The ages of HAP clients

E. The gender of HAP clients

F. The last time any individual HAP client record was updated

Without presenting any legal argument on which to base his decision, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk dismissed a request for HAP's public housing statistical data with what is arguably the shortest legal decision on record, namely, "I disagree." This is clear evidence of Schrunk's disinterest, disrespect and disdain for the Oregon Public Records Law and the citizens that exercise their right to use it.

Citizens interested in holding HAP accountable for its public spending and public policies will find no help from the Multnomah County District Attorney's office. However, sending the following email to Ted Wheeler will help.

To: Ted Wheeler

CC: Richard Ellmyer

Subject: HAP Candidacy

Dear Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler:

The interests of Multnomah county are served when authentic, accurate, complete and timely public housing statistical data from the Housing Authority of Portland is regularly placed on the public table for consideration by elected policy makers and the citizens of Multnomah county.

The interests of Multnomah county are served by a policy of equitable distribution of public housing throughout all of Multnomah county's neighborhoods.

Richard Ellmyer has demonstrated seven years of commitment to these policies. I encourage the Multnomah county commission to recommend him to the Portland city council for the position of HAP commissioner representing the interests of Multnomah county.

Sincerely,

Multnomah county voter

Richard Ellmyer

Community activist leading the campaign to stop all potentially new public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) in the Portsmouth neighborhood, especially the following:

1. Hacienda CDC public housing project on N. Newell Street (PDC ignores ICURAAC request to stop funding.)

2. The former John Ball School site (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and commissioner Saltzman refuse to make available accurate and complete public data on funders and board members.)

3. The recently closed Clarendon School site (Temporarily defined by PPS as a "swing space.")

Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion

Writer/Publisher - HAP Watchers commentary - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County. To Subscribe: HAP-Watchers-on@goodgrowthnw.org

President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 30% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.

 

Let's take a look at one of the peripheral players in this story--Howard Slusher. Slusher is the one-time sports agent that conned a one-time Blazer first-round draft pick named Rich Laurel into holding out for more money. Rich Laurel played for half a year and was never heard from again. Slusher is a crook, and anyone who trusts him deserves the worst.

 

I don't really blame Uncle Phil - he's done a lot for UO. He got pissed at Frohnmayer when Dave signed UO up with a flaky sweatshop labor group that was attacking Nike, back in 2000.

Dave managed to convince Phil that the Faculty had pressured him into this, so Phil cut off his academic donations - which had been very generous. Meanwhile he kept donating to Dave and his charity. He's promised Dave more he finally steps down as UO president. Meanwhile, Knight - or maybe Slusher - seems to love to make Frohnmayer jump through all sots of embarassing hoops, to get the money.

It's all pretty funny, and while Frohnmayer is doing quite well out of it financially, UO is not. The OUS board has an obligation to investigate the conflict of interest, but that's never going to happen. Everyone is just hoping that Knight will eventually get bored with toying with Frohnmayer, once he's completely destroyed his reputation, and then go back to his good old generous ways with UO.