Comments on: WW’s Interview With Mayor Sam Adams

By: Willamette Week | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Willamette Week | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:41:23 +0000

[...] says the first lie came in the Jan. 15 interview WW had with Adams in the presence of Nkrumah and Adams staffer Amy Ruiz when Adams denied any [...]

By: Steavis

Steavis — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:59:04 +0000

“Have we no REAL problems in this city?”

Sure we do. Potholes, less police protection, bad schools, Sellwood bridge falling down, water rates going up 16% in July.

Yet Sammy-boy is off on a week long jaunt to Belgium.

Face it, the only way he can dela with problems is lying which doesn’t solve anything.

By: annie

annie — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:48:47 +0000

William…yours is one of my most favorite posts EVER.

By: annie

annie — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:59:43 +0000

Amy was hired because those close to Sam could smell 2009 was going to be the year of The Press.

They needed someone who knows the rules of the game from the journalistic world, and you wonder why she was present as the “Sustainable What” at the shake shake down early Jan, when WW offered Sam the chance to come clean, and she was in the room…giving him subtle directions….so brand new to her office in City hall? Beth’s piece this morning on the content of Amy’s texting after the Big City Hall Co-Opt of the White House Garden Press op….brings it home even more.

Why else do you think she gets paid what she does for her great big important job for Sam….oops! I meant to say “for her valuable services to the city of Portland”.

By: william

william — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:06:45 +0000

Crash my car like a boss

By: anton_Chirurh

anton_Chirurh — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:51:47 +0000

Why is Amy Ruiz present for this interview? As I understand it she was hired for a position in the sustainability office. It makes no sense that a new staffer from a different department would be involved in a press interview and something this high level. Her presence here can not be easily explained.

I have no PROOF but i have thought, since this story broke, that Amy’s hire was central to the cover up. That is the best explanation I can come up with for her being in the room for this interview.

It’s a question that still lingers and that has never been explained.

By: kennyboy

kennyboy — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:14:35 +0000

That’s a lot of ” I don’t know” and I don’t remember”. His memory is substantially sharper when it comes to city affairs.

“Hired for her smarts”. The Ruiz thing is pathetic. Sam is using her.

None of his many powerful friends publicly support him. I mean people on the order of Vera Katz, not Thomas Lauderdale the piano player. Perhaps they know something they don’t wish to be associated with.

By: Jack Peek

Jack Peek — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:16:25 +0000

DamosA says:
May 6, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Why are people still obsessing over this? This is soo stupid. Have we no REAL problems in this city?

kidding..RIGHT?

By: DamosA

DamosA — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:03:19 +0000

Why are people still obsessing over this? This is soo stupid. Have we no REAL problems in this city?

By: gaye harris

gaye harris — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:05:24 +0000

Yeah, don’t you LOVE the part where she says “WHO in city hall is……chatting
about me??!”

(”…About…..the fact that I was hired….to be sustainability adviser…um, when I probably knew a lot of stuff about Sam and Beau and didn’t publish it…..and, um, am unqualified for the position….and,um, Sam is throwing his sustainability-minded constituents under the bus anyway…”)