January 13 2021
Clackamas County postpones a Jan. 13 swearing-in ceremony for new commissioners as Mark Shull faces condemnation.
Clackamas County has postponed a swearing-in ceremony for county commissioners. That ceremony had been planned for Wednesday, Jan. 13, but is being rescheduled, the county said, because of "recent threats of violence."
County officials said it will provide a new date for the ceremony "once they are determined." Additionally, the government said policy and business meetings would return to the streaming platform Zoom for the "foreseeable future."
While the brief announcement posted online doesn't mention newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull — the politician has become the isolated center of a firestorm of controversy after Pamplin Media Group first reported on his Facebook posts, which widely deemed to be racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.