“In November 1984—truth stranger than fiction—a laid-back tavern owner, Bud Clark, won election as mayor of the city of Portland…. Mayor-elect Clark had a merrymaking bent and a nationally noted trademark cry, “Whoop, Whoop!”, attesting to his wild side…

[January 1985] …after taking office, Mayor Clark appointed his new chief, Penny Harrington… on the surface a smiley round-faced personable cop with a boatload of resume…also a fiery, resolute redhead who had brought forty-two civil actions against the city over twenty years to get to her new position…

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