News The City of Portland won't give a new office-space lease to the campaign that wants to force a recall vote on Mayor Sam Adams. In a strange twist of geographic fate, the recall campaign had been using city-owned retail space on the corner of Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison Street as the home base for the campaign since Feb. 1. That will end officially on March 10. Recall volunteer Teresa McGuire ...   More

News The campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams says it started using paid signature gatherers on Sunday, about one month before the final deadline to submit the necessary signatures to the Portland auditor's office. But the mostly volunteer-led campaign still faces several challenges. The campaign has until April 20 to collect 32,183 valid signatures. So far, volunteers have collected 10,000, the campaign ...   More

News Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear, gave another $10,000 to the campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams, which has less than a month to collect more than 32,000 valid signatures. The new donation brings Boyle's overall donation to $17,500. New donors to the campaign this month also include Peter Stott, founder and CEO of Crown Pacific Partners, one of the state's largest timber companies; David ...   More

News Here's the whole rather bizarre statement from Adams recaller Jasun Wurster. (Highlight: "We are in the top 5 Google searches of 'Sam Adams Portland.'") Dear Portlanders, Thank you for your support over the past year in a movement that demands to bring open, transparent and accountable local government back to our city. The bottom line is we simply can not recall the first "openly gay mayor" ...   More