Mayor Admits to Homosexual Relationship with Intern

Another in a "guess the party affiliation" series.

PORTLAND, Ore. - More than a year after denying it, newly sworn-in Mayor Sam Adams admitted on Monday to lying about a sexual relationship he had with a teenager for several months during the summer of 2005.

In a phone interview with KATU, Adams apologized for not being honest to the public about his relationship with Beau Breedlove, whom he said was 18 at the time they had sex.

"I want to publicly acknowledge a mistake I made, and I want to apologize for it," said Adams, who was in Washington D.C. for Tuesday's inauguration.

Note that the story was first printed in a weekly, not a daily paper.

The statement came after the Willamette Week newspaper broke the story about Adams' untruthfulness Monday afternoon

It's the old "I was only mentoring" story:

At the time, he said he simply acted as a mentor to Breedlove, pictured above.

So what did he say at the time?

He told KATU then that suggesting anything else about the relationship was an attempt at political assassination.

At the time, he also wrote an "Open Letter to Portlanders" to respond to the controversy, calling it simply "ugly politicking."

So how did the relationship develop? It's the old story, boy meets boy, boy waits for boy to turn 18, boy gets boy.

In the phone interview with KATU, Adams gave a candid account of how the two met, saying Breedlove was a legislative intern working at the Capitol in Salem who looked like a professional rather than a teenager. The two had lunch in 2005, during which Adams learned Breedlove was two months shy of his 18th birthday.

Adams said he told the teen he did not date underage people. They stayed in contact and later in the summer went on a few dates once Breedlove was 18, Adams said.

"Looked like a professional?"

But it's all right because he said he was sorry.

"I want to apologize to the people of Portland for my dishonesty," he said. "I should have been truthful from the beginning."

He added that he had asked Breedlove, who is now 21, to lie about the relationship and that was a mistake. Adams said he never told his colleagues, staff, friends or even family about the sex. He added that he remains friends with Breedlove.

"I just hope people will accept my apology and take a whole view of my public service career," Adams said.

His whole public service career includes lying and having sex with an intern. In certain circles that's a resume enhancement. "Make a better mayor having learned from his mistake?"

There is not one, not one, not one party affiliation label. That is a dead give away.