Skip to main contentMayor Sam Adams has seen his share of financial troubles in the past couple of years, including receiving default notices on mortgages for three North Portland properties he owns (all since brought current).
But it's unlikely any of those lenders' communications was quite as peevish as a message Adams received late last year regarding a far smaller sum.
Here's an email WW turned up through a public records request last week:
Here's how the mayor responded:
Thompson, who sent Adams the email, declined requests for an interview.
"As much as I would like to share that information, I can't," Thompson wrote in an email. "My partner is smack in the middle of this as an employee of Cup and Saucer."
Cup & Saucer owner Karen Harding says the mayor settled his bill honorably.
"Sam is good customer of ours," Harding says. "I appreciate his business and don't appreciate anybody making an issue of it. He walked away and forgot to pay his tab. Mine is the kind of place where if somebody forgets to pay their bill we just ask them to pay next time and don't make a big deal of it."
WWeek 2015