The scandal involving former disgraced Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and corrupt, extreme “green” environmental organizations claimed another Democrat politician. Oregon’s chief operating officer Michael Jordan announced he would step down yesterday.
According to the Oregonian, Jordon emerged as a key player in the Kitzhaber scandal following the disgraced governor’s resignation. Jordan was complicit in the influence-peddling schemes Kitzhaber and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes apparently ran. He catered to the corrupt couple’s whims regarding Oregon’s implementation of a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the “green” version of the economically-based Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which Hayes was paid to push. And, Jordan even hired a manager “close to one of Hayes’ employers to advance a project she was pursuing.”
Jordan’s resignation comes after he demanded a criminal investigation over a high-profile leak of Kitzhaber’s personal emails—his attempts were scrutinized as retaliation against whistleblowers exposing corruption in the administration. Jordon even placed “two top managers in the state data center, a focus of the investigation, on leave.”
The situation went from bad to worse for Jordan when a data center manager sent an email to the Oregonian characterizing the criminal investigation he demanded as “purely political.”
We can’t say we are surprised. As Shift has reported, this scandal runs deep, touching even Washington State. But we’re still waiting for reporters in our state to start looking into the tangled web of influence peddlers that features California billionaire Tom Steyer as a puppet-master/money man for West Coast Democrat governors and “green” groups doing his bidding.
