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Call Goldschmidt what he was — Neil the sexual predator.

A particular image comes to mind when I think of disgraced former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, who died Wednesday: It is of me hopping up and down atop a parking garage in Los Angeles.

It was early May 2004. I was editorial page editor at Oregon’s capital newspaper, the Statesman Journal. Our family was on vacation in Los Angeles when my editorial-writing colleague called with a bombshell: Goldschmidt had admitted “an affair with a high school student for nearly a year” while Portland mayor.

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