Well, let me just put it this way...if a former Oregon Governor (Neil Goldschmidt) can admit he sexually abused and raped his 14 year old baby sitter while he was the Mayor of Portland Oregon and be protected from prosecution due to the statute of limitations, then how does allowing Townsend into the country to perform at the Super Bowl even become an issue?
We should be concentrating more on self-confessed pedophiles who are protected by ridiculous statute of limitations laws that have no place in our lawbooks.
You can read the Pulitzer Prize winning expose on former Governor Goldschmidt at the following link. And get this...Oregon's largest daily newspaper "The Oregonian" labeled it "an affair."
The 30-Year Secret
Also...
Who Knew - Long before Neil Goldschmidt's secret became public, many influential Oregonians knew something about it.
Goldschmidt was Governor at the time of the murder of Oregon Corrections Director Michael Francke. He was promising the public and the Francke family that he would "leave no stone unturned" in the murder investigation while at the same time keeping the feds out of the investigation. Most likely out of fear his pedophile secret would be uncovered as his child victim who was in her 20's then was attempting to extort money from him in return for her silence. Goldschmidt paid her nearly $250,000.
In the end a small time drug dealer named Frank Gable was wrongfully convicted for Francke's murder and has spent the past 20 years in prison with no chance for parole. The Francke family believes in Gable's innocence. I created a website on the case five years ago, and recently began a thread in the cold case forum of this site if anyone is interested.
