Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller (who is usually the first to repeat denier attempts to generate controversy) shows that indeed a broken clock is right twice a day with a story about a scandal involving Oregon's Governor, John Kitzhaber.
It seems the state's biggest paper, The Oregonian, has published an editorial calling on Kitzhaber to resign because of a series of scandals involving the Governor's fiancée, Cylvia Hayes. Apparently Hayes, while serving as an unpaid advisor to Kitzhaber, was also collecting a paycheck from the Clean Economy Development Center, opening the couple up to conflict of interest accusations.
Further complicating the issue is the fact that two of Kitzhaber's campaigners helped Hayes get the job in the first place.
While this is all fairly standard-issue political controversy, the fact that she was involved with clean energy groups means the issue will likely find fertile ground in the deniersphere. Hopefully, the scandal focuses on the ethical questions instead of bringing the entire clean energy industry into the mudslinging, but we'll have to wait and see.
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