As the founding Editor and Publisher of Willamette Week and a former Wall Street Journal Bureau Chief, I know the difference between the journalism published in the National Enquirer, and that in the New York Times.   This story on Fred Stewart falls in the former category.   It's too bad, and I wouldn't be writing this otherwise, but the admittedly great reporter Nigel Jaquiss has fallen off my journalistic pedastal based on his recent stories on Fred, on Jordan Schnitzer and on Terry Bean.   And on his reporting in the 2012 mayoral race, when, with help from his friend and protege Beth Slovic, then of The Oregonian and now at WW, they did in the candidacies of Jefferson Smith, and Eileen Brady, leaving the private life of Charlie Hales (who got the WW endorsement) comparatively untouched.  

I know how to get elected to the City Council or to Mayor.  Feed your opposition research to Nigel, whether its true or not.   I suggest that this should not be the way our elections are decided.