Oregon county chairwoman flips off fellow member during publicly broadcast meeting: wild video

A not-so-subtle local Oregon politician was caught on camera flipping off a fellow attendee during a livestreamed meeting Tuesday morning. Embattled Washington County Chair Kathryn Harrington flipped chair-hopeful Commissioner Nafisa Fai the bird after a short but tense exchange stemming from the latter supposedly blocking the Chairwoman’s view, the Oregonian reported. The heated exchange unfolded after Harrington abruptly interrupted the meeting and asked Fai to “stop getting in the way of my sight line” of Commissioner Jason Snider. Fai appears to adjust her chair twice before Harrington pushes her own chair back, slams her hands on the table and seemingly gives the finger to Fai while the other board members are looking away, footage from the livestream shows.Snider proceeds to answer Harrington’s housing question before Fai interrupts the meeting to ask if anyone saw Harrington’s sly middle finger.“Could you pause for a second? Did you see the finger?” Fai said. “Did anybody see that?” the dumbfounded commissioner questioned. None of the board members responded and Fai then told the meeting to continue.Snider then quipped, “Maybe I can help by moving.”Commissioner Pam Treece, who was in attendance at the public meeting Tuesday morning, called on Harrington to apologize to both Fai and county residents for her behavior. Treece said she was “shocked and disappointed” after reviewing the publicly available livestream in a statement, according to KGW.“As leaders, we have to hold ourselves to higher standards for our speech and our actions.

And when we fall short, we need to acknowledge it, take responsibility, and do better in the future,” Treece continued. “I will be working with my fellow commissioners to determine what further action is required,” Treece said, adding that she would return a recent contribution Harrington made to her campaign and remove the chair’s endorsement from her website. “Commissioner Fai and I...