{"id":2965,"date":"2004-11-16T03:15:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/11\/portlands-model-couple\/"},"modified":"2004-11-16T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T10:15:24","slug":"portlands-model-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/portlands-model-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland’s model couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere’s a unique insight into the inner life of progressive Portland<\/a> from the local freebie:<\/p>\n

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If there had been a cultural dictionary of Portland during the 1980s, the definition of “Progressives” would have been Steve and Marcia Moskowitz.<\/p>\n

He was a brainy Reedie lawyer who left the city attorney’s office to become a top aide to mayor Bud Clark. She was a spunky blue-collar Chicagoan who worked as a city planner. They went to potlucks hosted by the New Jewish Agenda and volunteered for left-leaning causes–hippies who became yuppies without selling out.<\/p>\n

In 1992, however, the couple split up. Later that year, Steve began seeing another woman–and Marcia snapped. On Oct. 17, she drove to his Northwest apartment, knocked on his door, pulled out a .22 caliber pistol, and fired four shots into his chest, stomach and groin. Then she knelt over him and fired three more. <\/p>\n

“That’s what happens when you shoot a gun,” she told him. He went to the emergency room. She went to jail.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years later, Steve has a new calling. He’s now a rabbi at Temple Israel in Long Beach, Calif. He’s also got a new wife, Ana, whom he met at Congregation Beth Israel in Portland. Contacted by WW, he said he still follows local politics but was not eager to discuss the shooting.<\/p>\n

Marcia served 18 months behind bars. She, too, has remarried (to Gary Suttenberg, a college friend of her ex-husband’s). After working as union organizer for several years, she is now executive director of the Portland Women’s Crisis Line–a job where, she says, her background is an asset, rather than a liability. <\/p>\n

“I tell clients, ‘Right now you may feel like you’ve hit the bottom,'” she says. “‘But you will come up.'” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcia’s really in the right line of work, isn’t she?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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