A new Bedsworth (no April Fool, he :-), who once again feels the pain of the Legislator, among others:
“I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators. For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn’t take unless they’d stopped hiring at the steel mill. For another thing, if you throw a rock at a legislator, you’re gonna hit him; they’re as defenseless as an animal with opposable thumbs can be…” (Read the Full Bedworth, here.)
The Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian story by Anne Saker, “Oregon patient sues over sexual abuse.” According to this story, Oregon “does not require medical professionals to report sexual abuse of sedated patients”:
‘A woman who was sexually abused while sedated for surgery shed her public anonymity Thursday to file a civil suit and to promise she would fight to require medical professionals to report sexual crimes against patients under anesthesia.
“I’m dedicated to seeing some change happen, doing whatever I can, because I think it’s necessary. Something has to change,” Katherine Edson said….
Also in the Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian , a story by Anna Griffin, Portland mayor’s race: Money woes linger from Dozono’s past, Mr. Dozono was quoted as saying a curious thing:
‘…. Ohno [Dozono friend and business colleague] had a wife and child in Japan, but also fathered a son with an American woman, Lori Lanning.
Ohno went to Dozono for advice.
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