Even at this morning's city council meeting, Mayor Sam Adams couldn't escape the idiocy of sportswriter John Canzano and his ill-timed rantings about the departure of the Portland Beavers.
Citizen Charles E. Long sat down across from the council and proceeded to read some of the choicer lines from Canzano's Monday Oregonian column into the record, especially passages questioning Adams' leadership heft.
At one point, Adams gave a chuckle. Everyone else kept reviewing notes at their desk, save for Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who held the thinnest of polite smiles.
During a break in the meeting, I caught up with Adams outside the council chambers to ask him what he thought of the contretemps—including yesterday's awkwardness, when Adams called into Canzano's sports-brute talk show and found himself subjected to the worst kind of schoolyard bullying.
Keep reading to see what hizzoner had to say:
- John Canzano is hungry.