Let me just get this straight. No pun intended. Relocating here, from out of state, and gentrifying poor neighborhoods is okay. Having neighborhood associations, comprised mostly of the recently arrived, bully residents in their own communities is okay. Providing Oregon natives with no help in competing against outsiders for local jobs is okay. Out of state developers turning Portland into one giant, ugly, Ikea advertisement is okay.

But this one, just this one, out of state attempt to interfere with Portland and her politics, is one out of state activity too much? So when it comes to protecting Portland's poor, and unfortunate from encroaching, affluent, transplants from down south, we can all step off. When it comes to reigning in Nanny State special-interest groups like the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, we native Oregonians are equally ignored. But try to interfere with something that affects a tiny minority of Oregon residents, and let loose the dogs of war?

Oregon's domestic partnership law is a good thing. Attempts to block it, especially by outsider-groups, is horrendous. Authorizing the City Attorney's office to allocate additional resources to this issue is over the line, though. I mean, you are advocating using a government office to generate reams of superfluous paperwork as a means of monkey-wrenching the legal process. That's just under-handed, and an extreme measure, to say the least.

If only Oregon natives could have such advocacy, and not just the gay ones. Mr. Adams, your agenda is showing.