If you care about safe streets and social justice, this is one of the most important decisions the Mayor can make. I'm happy to wait on other issues until he gets this right. Can't imagine it will be a worse choice than McGinn made.
Are you seriously complaining that Ed Murray wasn't bought thoroughly enough by alcohol lobbyists? Thank god some politicians aren't as easily bought and sold as The Stranger's journalists. Making Dave Meinert and his wealthy pals richer is against the public interest, there's no reason to push for it except simple corruption.
Sorry, I mistyped Mayor Murray as Mike McGinn. Obviously, it was supposed to say, " How long did it take your favorite Mayor Murray to blow it with appointing Harry Bailey?"
And I probably got the Interim Chief's name wrong, too. :(
In the Capitol Hill blog comments Meinert gleefully claimed Sawant was backing out of her position. For all his complaining about a lack of compromise (and repeating the lie that she wouldn't compromise), the second she offered up a phase-in, he immediately pointed to the concession as a sign of weakness.
The next step, he said, was getting total compensation figured into to minimum. Which, as Goldy pointed out, would do nothing for take home pay. I imagine he'll probably try to use Sawant's small business compromise to claim that 15now is weak, then, if they don't make further concessions, call them inflexible ideologues or some other bullshit like that. So it goes when you're more performance artist than businessman.
@1' guess you on gonna die on the sword you have fallen on for Murray. Besides setting music AND film back with the Keblas firing (no offense to the new person, she is in a hard spot starting from the horrible job the Murray team did with the firing), he is already doing an embarrassing job with SPD and his obvious pandering to SPOG. Pugel, Sanford and Dermody out of the picture, Whitcomb (the genius behind the Doritos at Hempfest) sitting in a basement somewhere, and the promotion of some very questionable SPD. Oh, and SFD finest beating the bejesus out of homeless people in Pioneer Square.
I never got the whole McGinn hate thing that seemed to happen from the minute he was elected. Murray isn't McGinn, so people voted for him? For what? Because he could run with the party dem machine better? Because he doesn't have any agenda, so he'll let the council and SPD do what they want?
I didn't vote for Murray, but since he won I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he could do…so far I'm not impressed. I will become one of those "anyone but Murray" people that I didn't understand when it was McGinn in the crosshairs.
Considering Murray ran one of the most divisive campaigns in recent memory, it's fair to judge him accordingly esp. since very little (if at all) of what he promised is coming to fruition.
Murray will prove to be a far better Mayor than McGinn. At least Murray won't go around using the "no school for mayors" excuse. What McGinn really meant to say was that there's "no school for common sense"..
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Thanks for the link. I suppose if Mr. Meinert's businesses go under, it will be difficult to tell if it's because of economics or because he's spending too much time commenting online and not enough actually doing what real business owners do--work.
Seatackled, entrepreneurs like Meinert contribute to making Seattle a great city. Since you don't reveal who you are, the least you could do is post your bio so we can judge what you have accomplished and have contributed to this society. Let the commenters judge for themselves whether your positions are grounded in fact and education or just bullshit rhetoric.
I find it endlessly ironic that the people who shrilly complained that McGinn was "divisive" then voted for the most divisive candidate possible.
What they really meant by "divisive" was that McGinn had an agenda they disagreed with.
McGinn wasn't the greatest mayor ever by a long shot, but he was about ten thousand times better than the visionless, myopic, bug-eyed goon we have now.
If you care about safe streets and social justice, this is one of the most important decisions the Mayor can make. I'm happy to wait on other issues until he gets this right. Can't imagine it will be a worse choice than McGinn made.
How long did it take your favorite Mike McGinn to blow it with appointing Harry Bailey?
Sorry, I mistyped Mayor Murray as Mike McGinn. Obviously, it was supposed to say, " How long did it take your favorite Mayor Murray to blow it with appointing Harry Bailey?"
And I probably got the Interim Chief's name wrong, too. :(
In the Capitol Hill blog comments Meinert gleefully claimed Sawant was backing out of her position. For all his complaining about a lack of compromise (and repeating the lie that she wouldn't compromise), the second she offered up a phase-in, he immediately pointed to the concession as a sign of weakness.
The next step, he said, was getting total compensation figured into to minimum. Which, as Goldy pointed out, would do nothing for take home pay. I imagine he'll probably try to use Sawant's small business compromise to claim that 15now is weak, then, if they don't make further concessions, call them inflexible ideologues or some other bullshit like that. So it goes when you're more performance artist than businessman.
Link: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/0…
I didn't vote for Murray, but since he won I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he could do…so far I'm not impressed. I will become one of those "anyone but Murray" people that I didn't understand when it was McGinn in the crosshairs.
Thanks for the link. I suppose if Mr. Meinert's businesses go under, it will be difficult to tell if it's because of economics or because he's spending too much time commenting online and not enough actually doing what real business owners do--work.
What they really meant by "divisive" was that McGinn had an agenda they disagreed with.
McGinn wasn't the greatest mayor ever by a long shot, but he was about ten thousand times better than the visionless, myopic, bug-eyed goon we have now.