Kafoury v. Kafoury

The Portland school board race in Zone 5 not only pits Scott Bailey (whom I endorsed yesterday) against Pam Knowles, it also further splits,  along political lines, the ex-husband and wife team of two locally prominent Kafoury's.

Gretchen Kafoury, you see, supports Bailey.  Her ex, world's worst person Stephen Kafoury, has endorsed Bailey's opponent, the business candidate Knowles.  I don't want to read too much into what these competing endorsements mean except to say this: 

Given Steve Kafoury's endorsement and the fact that he represents in Oregon a chain of virtual charter schools, one might speculate that Knowles may be more amenable to school charterization --even partial privatization-- than one would like to see in a public school board director. 

That makes me feel more confident in my support of Scott Bailey. 

There's another Kafoury involved in this intra-familial political dust-up --Steve and Gretchen's daughter, Deborah.  The newly-elected Multnomah County Commissioner sides with her father --and Knowles.  (What do you suppose her mother must think?)

Oh yeah.  Bailey also has the enthusiastic support of Steve Novick, the little man with the wicked left hook and possible Oregon gubernatorial candidate. 

Gretchen and Steve --Novick, that is-- are quite the powerful political team.  And that's good for Scott Bailey.

Comments

[Terry]

I actually ran into Steve Kafoury quite accidentally yesterday at the state capitol building --in the lobby where the lobbyists hang out.

What brought me to the capitol? My older brother --a Whitman College classmate of Kafoury-- and I were visiting our second cousin, Max, a former star quarterback for Waldport High School who suffered a serious brain injury eight years ago during his senior season. A bill now pending in the current legislative session regarding the safety of high school athletes has been dubbed "Max's Law" after my cousin.

Anyway, after Kafoury helped us track down the progress of the legislation, I spoke to him briefly about his endorsement of Pam Knowles.

"I've known Pam for years," he told me. "I've never met Scott Bailey."

My reply? "Well, he has a website."

I left with the impression that Kafoury's endorsement was perfunctory at best. He knew Knowles. He didn't know Bailey. Therefore Knowles got his support.

Issues? I don't think they were a consideration.

Smells like cronyism to me.

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