08:09 PM PDT on Sunday, June 13, 2004

Compiled by kgw.com Staff

Here's the text of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski's statement issued to the Oregonian newspaper regarding his knowledge of Neil Goldschmidt's sexual relationship with a teenage girl. The statement was provided to kgw.com by the governor's press office:

Gov. Ted Kulongoski. (AP Photo)

"I would like to reiterate my comments of May 8, 2004 and May 20, 2004 regarding former Governor Neil Goldschmidt's disclosure that he had sexual encounters with a young girl while he was mayor of Portland in the 1970s.

I did not become aware of the allegations until the evening of May 5, 2004, when my chief of staff informed me that the media began asking questions about the subject.

Until that time, I had no knowledge that Governor Goldschmidt had sexually abused a 14-year-old girl, nor did I know of any subsequent payments to her.

I still do not know her name, nor the names of her family members."

-- Statement of Governor Kulongoski