Additional questions addressed the fact that while Nolan was director of BES, her husband's consulting firm landed several contracts with the city. The only questions about the fourth candidate, senior citizens' lobbyist Jim Davis, involved name identity. The pointed nature of the questions has caused a bit of a furor among the other candidates. When Taylor learned of the poll, he called Nolan to say he wasn't responsible. Calhoun referred all questions about the poll to his campaign staff.
Any campaign has opinions about what they think is right in a community.
If he's piling up inflammatory and distorted innuendo about me, it indicates that Calhoun thinks I'm his most serious competitor. Nolan's entry into the race last month has changed what was shaping up to be a battle between Taylor and Calhoun. Still, his years as a political organizer for the Oregon Nurses Association give him solid experience. A former Intel executive who ran his own multimedia company, he has a pot of his own cash to spend on his first political bid. She's thrown a feminist monkeywrench into the boys' club.