You will, of course, look in vain for a party identification in this story, but it’s still interesting:

In early 2008, Amy Ruiz was a reporter at the Portland Mercury news weekly when she confronted [Mayor] Sam Adams [a Democrat] about his relationship with an 18-year-old man three years earlier.
By the end of the year, Ruiz had joined Adams’ staff as a planning and sustainability policy adviser.
The two events have opened Adams and his staff to questions about whether Adams hired Ruiz — who had no formal experience in planning, policy or as an analyst — to stop her from digging deeper into the story.

The job pays about $55,000 a year — a good bump up from Ruiz’s reporting gig.