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I first became aware of Jay Inslee at the pride parade in 2011. Throughout 2012 he was at progressive events all over the region. I feel like Inslee went out of his way to be at events for issues I cared about. McKenna didn't.
Y... yes? You... have an accurate understanding of how democracy operates?
"I lost because too many people disagree with me."
"I lost because not enough people voted for me."
"The other guy won because he was more popular with voters."
No matter how you phrase it, it's still a tautology.
the only problem is that it's not 100%.
Seattle: "If we didn't exist to make it rain our glorious tax money on your heads, you would all be living like hill tribes, begging for Federal money to even have schools, let alone most of the basic services we underwrite. Should we stop bankrolling you now?"
.... unlike McKenna ....
This is the same thing as when Republican go on and on about how the Democrats wouldn't stand a chance if it weren't for the "black vote".
Does it not occur to them that they wouldn't have a chance if it weren't for the (insert GOP consituency here) vote? Shouldn't Rob McKenna be relieved because if it weren't for Garfield County, he'd have been skunked even worse?
Whiny Red District whiners spend them like fish.
(I kid, I kid, but seriously...)
1) Seattle voters will have to change
2) Rob McKenna will have to change
3) A significant proportion of Seattle voters will have to be disenfranchised
#1 isn't going to happen in the next decade or two. Guess which option McKenna is eyeballing.
If we're going to split things differently on sensible geographic lines, all the counties ringing Puget Sound or in the Olympic Peninsula should be annexed to British Columbia, and all the counties that are part of the Columbia River watershed (along with the small portion of BC that holds the Columbia) should be a single state, including most of Oregon, all of Idaho, and Western Montana. But politically, that screws the nice people in Portland.
Makes you wonder how a Social Progressive / Fiscal Conservative Republican would do. A guy who is for both abortion and guns. And who likes to cut costs but feed poor kids.
Mm....
Spoiler: terribly.
So yeah, this is about to be a Seattle problem. Because the Republicans control your legislature. They can take away your voting power.
Angwy Wob McKenna! Take THAT, angwy wed counties----huh huh huh huh huh HUH!
I think one would have to exist first. "Compassionate conservatives" are not socially progressive.
I can see why one wouldn't support "sin taxes" as regressive but giving Eyman a vote and keeping us out of collecting income from top earners doesn't seem so smart from a fiscal position.
I liked McKenna a lot more (but not that much) before he joined that stupid Obamacare lawsuit. Fuck him for that waste of taxpayer resources all to shore up his TeaPub cred.