The Oregonian reports this afternoon that Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz has asked the same question I posed this morning: who at Multnomah County gave the order for Sonia Manhas to be fired? As written by Brad Schmidt: "Fritz declined to comment on Cogen's decision to reject calls from the Board of County Commissioners for his resignation. But Fritz did say the county should explain why Manhas was forced to resign Wednesday and who in the county pushed for it."
Who indeed pushed for Ms. Manhas to leave the county, making some say that the county has a double standard, one for women and one, much more lax, for men? I believe that with one exception, everyone above Ms. Manhas in the county hierarchy -- every one of the suspects -- is female: her supervisor, the county attorney, the deputy county attorney, and the four commissioners. Mr. Cogen himself is the lone exception, leading to the Homeric conclusion that unless Mr. Cogen himself ordered her to lose her job, Ms. Manhas became the victim of a double standard applied not by the male establishment, but by other women.