American Dream

Neil Goldschmidt, the former mayor of Portland and governor of Oregon and father of Portland's light-rail system, resigned from most of his public and private posts after a news story revealed that he had an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was mayor. This has led to endless ruminations by people worried about the Goldschmidt legacy. One interesting article describes many Goldschmidt-connected people, including Representative Earl Blumenauer and the former head of Portland's transit agency whose family also owns the construction firm that built many of Portland's transit-oriented developments, as the light-rail mafia. The Portland Tribune published a more lengthy, and rather formidable, list of members of Neil's Network.