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Top Oregon judge enters guilty plea to encouraging child sex abuse
Associated Press & Brett Taylor
Apr 15, 2023
UPDATE: According to new court records, former Chief Administrative Law Judge John Mann has decided to plead guilty to several counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse.
Mann's accused actions stem from several instances during the summer of 2020, from June to August, where Washington County Police say he willingly viewed child pornography with the intent to develop, duplicate, publish, print, disseminate, exchange, display, finance, attempt to finance or sell the visual recordings.
Mann will be sentenced on May 11, 2023.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon’s top judge for settling disputes between citizens and state agencies is facing child pornography allegations. Chief Administrative Law Judge John Mann was booked into Washington County Jail last month on ten counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse.
He was released on bail hours later. A spokesperson for the Beaverton Police Department, which investigated the case, says Mann was arraigned Monday in Washington County Circuit Court. A spokesperson for Gov. Kate Brown said Mann had been placed on unpaid administrative leave amid the investigation. It wasn't immediately known if he has a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
-- ASSOCIATED PRESS
The consequences of pushing wokism madness upon an unwilling society
Bud Light marketing exec behind Dylan Mulvaney partnership
takes leave of absence
By Patrick Reilly
April 21, 2023 11:19pm Updated
The Bud Light senior marketing executive behind the controversial Dylan Mulvaney ad campaign has taken a leave of absence, according to a report.
Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of marketing for the popular beer, will be replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen, AdAge reported on Friday.
Heinerscheid has led the brand since June. It’s unclear if her replacement will be permanent.
The move comes as Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch have faced immense backlash for its partnership with Mulvaney, a transgender influencer who rose to fame chronicling her gender transition on social media.
At the conclusion of Mulvaney’s transition she dubbed “365 Days of Girlhood,” the beer maker sent the activist custom-made can’s featuring her face, which she revealed in an April 1 Instagram post with the hashtag #budlightpatner. She later posted another video enjoying one of the beers in a bathtub.
A day before Mulvaney announced the partnership, Heinerscheid was interviewed on the podcast “Make Yourself At Home,” where she discussed her work in transforming the Bud Light brand from its “fratty” and “out of touch” humor to a beer company that embraces inclusivity.
Alissa Heinerscheid has taken a leave of absence after Bud Light’s partnership with transgender influencer
Dylan Mulvaney sparked outrage.
Anheuser-Busch
Mulvaney announced her partnership with the beer on April 1.
Dylan Mulvaney/Instagram
“I’m a businesswoman, I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light, and it was ‘This brand is in decline, it’s been in a decline for a really long time, and if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand there will be no future for Bud Light,‘” Heinerscheid said.
She said she brought “belief” to the brand that to evolve and elevate means to incorporate “inclusivity, it means shifting the tone, it means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive, and feels lighter and brighter and different, and appeals to women and to men.”
She also disparaged the work of Bud Light’s past branding.
Which means she insulted the mainstream, Bud Light customers.
“We had this hangover, I mean Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach,” she said.
After her comments went viral amid the controversy, critics called Heinerscheid a hypocrite when photos surfaced appearing to show the exec enjoying the “fratty” culture she dismissed while a student at Harvard.
Heinerscheid was mocked after images on her now-deleted Facebook page showed her at a campus scavenger hunt, blowing up condoms like balloons, and downing beers during a 2006 “boozefest.”
Despite the immediate backlash from the partnership with Mulvaney, Bud Light initially defended the move before later offering a half-hearted apology to its loyal customers last week.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Brendan Whitworth said in a press release. “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
In the weeks after Bud Light’s partnership with Mulvaney, Anheuser-Busch saw its value plummet more than $5 billion.
$5 billion - that's a lot of beer!
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