"Over the next few months, we heard other stories from other women. None was willing to go on the record. It appeared to us that Wu's aggressive conduct with women may have continued deep into his adulthood. But we were unable to prove it."

so now, years later, with 1 accuser coming forward, someone from the Oregonian is finally saying there was more? but doing so with no facts? i'm assuming at least one other woman will come forward before too long; that usually happens -- when these accusations are true. but this "admission" is just as disturbing as the cover-up. he failed to follow thru on stories as an editor, and now he's leveling charges without facts and what? expecting his reputation to convince us? whatever Wu's done aside, one thing we know even better now: our local "major" newspaper is not a source of trustworthy reporting.

they didn't fail just this young woman. they've failed all of us. but i think we knew that anyway. and a mea culpa for someone with a guilty conscience won't change that one bit.

The interesting question is whether any of those women who didn't want to go public are now sorrow they didn't. Or all they still glad they didn't subject themselves to the publicity, loss of privacy and potential attacks on their integrity that often accompany "going public" in these cases.

We are still a long way from having a handle on how to best handle these situations.

"We Failed You ..."

Sounds more like the Oregon Democratic message to the citizens of Congressional District 1 for ignoring, defending and enabling David Wu for more than a decade.

stand by while I don flame-retardant suit...

I don’t know who knew what about the sex scandal, should we learn any actual verifiable facts of other people knowing about this and not saying anything, or covering up after the fact that would be bad. Who knows.

But I do know that many knew about the “weird behavior” including sending e-mails to staffers in the voice of his children, sending a picture of himself to staff members dressed in a tiger suit, talking his way into the secure area of PDX to politically evangelize, and taking prescription drugs without a prescription. It wasn’t that long ago that he took so much Ambien and Valium that he ended up in the hospital. And it got so bad that at one point his own staff asked that he seek psychiatric help. Unfortunately not a single one of his staffers or anyone else in the democrat party that was aware of these things going on decided to step up at the time and let the public know, so that wu could get the help that he clearly needed. I know the political reasons, they were afraid that would mean that wu would lose in the very close race between him and Rob Cornilles. But within weeks after these problems occurred, this incident described as “aggressive, unwanted” sexual encounter by this girl occurred. Had people stood up and said there was a problem earlier, maybe it could have been avoided. And that lack of coming forward about all the other problems until after the election and this young woman was hurt, that could still bite the whole democrat party at least a little bit.

I think that the Democratic Party can use this as a time to reflect and decide if character matters.

The Oregonian failed us, but so did the Democratic Party for aiding and abetting character assassination against accusers of your candidates and nominees. I remember the Clinton years when any woman who brought up accusations was subjected to personal attacks and ridicule.

Now we have another example in a long line of Democrats behaving badly. Fortunately for the 1st district, you all had already decided to throw Wu under the bus. Otherwise, I am certain that Oregon's Democrats would be closing ranks around him and trying to shoot the messenger.