"Socialists" in Seattle are merely monarchists in disguise. As SLOG amply demonstrates.

Conlin, of course. Geez.

Bagshaw is the closest to the center of the bunch, so she'd be a good target. My guess is it'll be Conlin though.

Conlin.

If she's doing it to provide the strongest political counterpoint, she should line up against whoever she's proudest to disagree with. If she's doing it to get a million admiring Slog posts of her every utterance, she should file against Conlin. If she actually aims to win, though, she should go after the weakest, O'Brien.

Who do I want her to run against? Licata. He'd like it, it would give him some exercise.

Conlin for the love of all that is holy

politics is by nature Machiavellian, if this person thinks they have something worthy to bring to the city that's lacking, then they should contest the weakest candidate. and in that quartet that's likely Mike O' Brien.

A Socialist is not going to win, so I'd prefer she run against O'Brien. I'd like Conlin & Bagshaw to have a viable candidates.

dreyfus or blah-shaw

I would vote for her in a heartbeat. I like her policy positions more than her label, but some people like SROTU will only focus on labels, you can't help them.

Conlin.

Conlin ftw!

CONLIN CONLIN CONLIN

As a former resident of Seattle, this is exactly why you should get f'n council districts already. No socialist is going to win a city wide race.

Conlin or Bagshaw.

No poll?

Clearly Conlin. Take down the part on your website about the government taking over corporations.

Where's the legally binding Slog poll?

These council members are all very corporate and aligned with big money. If people read and listen to her policies, government running corporations is not what they are stating. Merely that the employees already doing the work, own and run the companies. At this point, these corporations in our state are not paying much if anything in federal income tax, limited B&O taxes and/or sales tax. Taking them into public ownership is a good response to the insistence that these big companies will take away our jobs if they are forced to pay their fair share of the tax burden. Read this interesting analysis about Boeing: http://www.socialistalternative.org/publ…
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If any non-Dem or Repug could get real, serious coverage, it would be Sawant. Conlin is a mess. He needs to go, but Bagshaw is no prize either.

These current council members are very corporate and side with big money anyway. And what do they actually do for the average working person while collecting the $120k salary? If people read Kshama Sawant's policies, she is not talking about government taking over the companies, but that employees already running them have a share in ownership, profit sharing and decision making. This is a good response to the constant push back by corporations who do not think they should have to pay any tax. Just in this state we have several large corporations paying very little, if any, federal income tax, or B&O and sales tax. But then opponents claim we are not business friendly and will take the jobs elsewhere. This is a thoughtful analysis on what happened ten years or so ago with Boeing making such a claim and the fallout: http://www.socialistalternative.org/publ…
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Conlin.

Sorry for the double post! Too many choices - who is the worst? It's a pretty close call. But either Conline or Bagshaw.

Too bad that NIMBY asshat Rasmussen isn't up this year.

Bagshaw.

Conlin

#14, you don't live here, so why should we give a shit about your opinion of districts?

@14: No Socialist is going to win a City Council seat, with or without districts.

I think she should run against Sam Bellomio.

Fuck SA. They are just ISO-lite.