April 26, 2010
Cloudburst Recycling was founded in 1975 by David and Michela McMahon. We celebrated the 35th anniversary of our first collection route on April 15th.
Rex Burkholder, a candidate for Chairman of the Metro Regional Government, stated in the Voter’s Pamphet that he “co-founded Cloudburst Recycling”. This unfortunate statement is completely inaccurate. Rex has apologized for his error.
Rex did work at Cloudburst, but not until 1980-81 (for roughly 18 months), more than 5 years after Cloudburst’s founding.
More discussion of this matter can be found at Willamette Week’s blog.