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By now it’s not news that Sho Dozono and Sam Adams went wellover their voluntary campaign spending limits in the Portlandmayoral race.

The unreported story is how Adams beat Dozono in collecting“in-kind” contributions, or donated services — afurther way around the cash spending limits.

The most recent campaign spending reports show Adams received anadditional $86,000-plus in donated services, including more than$52,000 from three groups — the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund,Local 49 of the Service Employees International Union and Local 189of the American Federation of State, County and MunicipalEmployees. The donated services include polling, printing, postage,voter contact and campaign management.

In contrast, Dozono raised just over $16,000 in in-kindcontributions, with the majority — around $11,000 —coming in donated rent from his travel company. Did school namesakes really love to dance?

We know Jefferson High School is proud of its dance program, butdid it really have to design its 2008-09 course guide with dancingcaricatures of Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman and John H. Johnson(namesake of the school’s Young Men’s Academy) on thecover?

The bright orange booklet features Jefferson kicking up his heelsin a wig, shirt, pantaloons, stockings and buckle shoes; Johnson— the late founder of the largest black-owned publishingcompany in the world — in pants and a T-shirt, also in balletpose; and a hardly amused-looking Tubman (namesake of theschool’s Young Women’s Academy) in a blouse, long skirtand ballet slippers.

Community and staff members were not happy with the design andit’s now being redone with different student artwork on thecover. PPS spokeswoman Sarah Carlin Ames said the course guide wasused this spring by eighth-graders, but needed updating anyway thisfall, so the art redo didn’t bring any additional expense. Posted photos land officer in hot water

Portland police officer Brian Hughes recently learned that hishobby of taking work-related photos, such as of drugs seized andcars busted, and posting them online was maybe not a great idea.

Hughes received a talking-to from his superiors after his postings,on the photo-gallery Web site www.pbase.com , hit the always-interesting police-bureau grapevine. One picturein particular raised concerns, Hughes says he was told — thephoto of some seized methamphetamine over the caption, “Thankyou Mexicans!!”

Some explanatory paragraphs alluded to authorities’ beliefthat Mexican organized crime is responsible for the bulk of themeth sold in Oregon.

Asked about his photos, Hughes said he took them down afterlearning that they were against a bureau policy about onlineposting. He stressed that his comments were directed only atMexican meth traffickers, not Mexicans in general, and that he didnot mean to offend anyone.