The city elections office remains convinced that city council candidate Rene Gonzalez did violate small donor election laws when he accepted—and failed to report—a heavily discounted rental rate for a campaign office in downtown Portland offered up by a monied campaign donor. While Gonzalez urged the city to reconsider its $77,140 fine levied against his campaign earlier this week, Small Donor Elections Director Susan Mottet informed the campaign Thursday that the fine still stands. "The...