Trouble at the trough


I wrote a while back about the young Portland politician Cameron Whitten, who lately has taken to running a nonprofit charity, Brown Hope, that was reportedly about to start handing out a guaranteed income to a couple dozen lucky Black households in town. To me, the whole setup raised more questions than it answered.

Well, the questions have now doubled with the news that the head of the organization's board, Greg McKelvey, has placed Whitten on the old "paid administrative leave" for some mysterious reason involving multiple "serious allegations." McKelvey is also well-known in political circles, having recently served as the campaign manager of Sarah Yada Yada Iannarone, who was such a bad candidate for mayor that she lost to the more-than-mildly incompetent incumbent, Dud Wheeler. McKelvey and Iannarone spent a lot of time filing complaints about Wheeler's campaign finances before they lost in a three-way race.

Anyway, what did Whitten allegedly do to get himself canned from the free money dispensary? And did McKelvey have the legal right to sideline him? Will the prospective recipients of the handouts still get paid? It should all make for some interesting reading in the weeks ahead.

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  1. Could be a decent name for a movie> Serious Allegations...

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  2. Interesting -- in 2017 Cameron was also mysteriously dismissed from an agency called the "East Portland Action Plan" after a very short term of employment there. There were rumors, and just rumors, about improprieties at the time. Part of his responsibilities were distributing grant funds, and he was effectively scrubbed from all of their online publications, except for: https://www.eastportland.org/node/6380

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  3. Here is another appearance of his name, as EPAP Grants Manager: https://www.eastportlandactionplan.org/sites/default/files/2017.09.26%20EPAP%202018%20Grant%20Application3.pdf. He held the position for around six months.

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  4. Another case study of the dark tetrad personality in Portland politics. Where is Jefferson Smith when you need him?

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  5. The Oregon DOJ is investigating now.

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  6. McKelvey was the brainiac behind "Recall Ted Wheeler" too.

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