Congratulations to Nigel Jaquiss and Willamette Week for winning the Pulitzer Prize.

I rarely agree with the politics of WW, but they’re usually a good read. The work done in outing former Portland mayor/Oregon Governor/US Secretary of Transportation and democrat Neil Goldschmidt’s propensity for underage sexual activities, apparently a reasonably well known but never talked about issue (I’m reminded of a certain Republican Senator… Also from Oregon… what was his name again… Bob Packwood?) was simply exceptional.



Alternative weekly takes Pulitzer

4/4/2005, 4:13 p.m. PT
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nigel Jaquiss stared off into space, his eyes brimming with tears when word hit the tiny alternative weekly's newsroom that he had won a Pulitzer Prize, journalism's most-coveted award, for uncovering a 3-decade-old sex abuse scandal involving a former governor.

"I never thought it would happen to me," said Jaquiss, 42, a former Wall Street oil trader who is now an investigative reporter at the Willamette Week, a Portland weekly known for its edgy critique of Oregon politics.

Following up leads that larger papers had overlooked, Jaquiss documented a three-year-long sexual relationship in the 1970s between Neil Goldschmidt, then mayor of Portland, and a 14-year-old girl who baby sat for his children. After serving as mayor, Goldschmidt went on to become governor, and Secretary of Transportation in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter.

Willamette Week published Jaquiss' story last May.

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