If anyone's free tomorrow morning, Sally Clark is holding a "Business Organization Symposium" at city hall, free and open to the public. With coffee and snacks!

Sally Clark is speaking at 8:30am-8:45am if you want to ask her why she hates her job, and don't want to interrupt the poor "business organizations" presenting to her.

http://www.seattle.gov/council/clark/sbo…

If you want to stick around, there's important city business like a "case study on how Pioneer Square became Seattle's newest trendy neighborhood" (lols).

Was Sally Clark president of the City Council when any of those other "off-topic resolutions" were brought up? Sure, it's ridiculous that this has become such an issue, but of all the possible responses to the atrocities in Russia, screaming at a city council to pass a non-binding resolution denouncing it has to be among the very least effective.

Is there anything that the city council can actually do that's germane to this horrorshow or causing even the merest inconvenience to Russia? If so, we should encourage them to do so.

Absent any tangible leavers to enact change as there are, our voices in opposition something not to be left to atrophy, we express our free speech precisely because others can not. It is that seemingly intangible thing that is being thrown out on the world stage as an acceptable simptom of an indefensible structure of social norms.

The fact that our representative democracy doesn't "represent" in all its old community or old school ways is a travesty. It's an absolute failure of our system of governess if the only way our city council could voice the displeasure is if we have tangible, or "business" interaction.

WHAT THE FUCK, SALLY CLARK, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

How the hell do you think you got where you are? Did somebody owe you a favor?
No, people of this city voted for you to represent us. Please try to do that.

@3: I'm curious what possible "responses" you'd consider effective now that you've taken the court of public opinion off the table.

A pie eating contest?
Nuclear weapons at 20 paces?
Slim Whitman records on endless repeat?

Would you like to suggest what you think WOULD be effective, or do you just want to trash anyone (obviously not you) who's actually speaking up for human rights, and banging whatever pots and pans they have just to let the victims of this oppression know that somebody else in the world notices their suffering and cares about it?

Clark is a bit of a cypher. She'll say she supports neighborhoods and then vote against their work/wishes. She wants to represent this city - a city that voted for marriage equality which is pretty much the ultimate in gay rights - and yet she can't stand up for a simple resolution in support of gay rights. And, it's likely there might be Olympians coming from Washington State who will go and compete in Russia. Where is their support?

You have to wonder who she's listening to.

Who is Joel Connelly and why do we care?