Boom.

Who's looking like the seasoned politician now?

It so warms the heart to see the bridges that have been rebuilt between the mayor's office and the council since the last administration.

Whatevs.

Enc.

One (1) pair of big boy pants. Please wear.

Stakeholders is code for Non-Seattle Citizens

Compromise on $25 minimum wage with a $15 training wage for businesses with 50 or fewer employees with no tip or benefit exemptions NOW and phase to $25 by 2020

I voted for McGinn. Cause the devil you know ...

Murray is losing it - see his FB freakout on Ben Schiendelman today as case in point:

http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profi…

She is lovely, and this is beautiful.

Whether or not you agree with sawant at least she is direct and honest in her communication. A refreshing change for Seattle and national politics. Most pols give public statements that are so unspecific they don't mean shit.

Good for her!

@8 Wow, that's crazy. If he really wrote that, we're in bigger trouble than we thought. If an aide wrote that, I thought he was supposed to use the money the Council lavished on him to hire competent people. You read that and you wonder if the writer isn't posting some of the incoherent comments here.

(And btw, what's Barnett been writing about Sawant? She was doing groundbreaking work last fall digging into Sawant's personal life.)

The mayor needs some grammar and style lessons.

I love that these 2 got elected at the same time, by the same voters. One of them is going to destroy the other. Watch.

@13: Murray wrote it. He's a fucking moron. Yes, we're in trouble.

@13 & 16, that should be a story the Stranger could do something with, his notorious behavior, which everyone in Olympia knew about.

@15, I am marveling over the same thing. My money is on Sawant taking him down within a year. If he is too much of an egotistical baby to survive some FB comments, he has no chance with what she is going to bring down on him. Butter the popcorn!

@8 -- I'm supposed to worry because Murray told a gadfly to f*ck off? Murray made the mistake of treating Schiendelman like an honest critic.

"Mr. Mayor, you've been in office for almost a couple months now, and there are still problems with the city. Shouldn't you have fixed everything already? I swear I heard you say during your campaign that you promised all our troubles would go away the day after you were elected."

Oh god, almost 4 more years of this incompetent bloviating stuffed suit.

@1, definitely.

@13, "groundbreaking work last fall digging into Sawant's personal life"? Is this a sarcastic pun or are you serious? If the latter, it does sound like Barnett's type of research.

@18, yes. He campaigned on being a pro, paid his staff like pros. Not seeing anything so far that indicates that, and his lashing out at activists and continual finger point at previous administrations isn't helping his case. His communications team is a mess, his senior staff don't know which way is up, and his friendship with Jenny Durkan is only going to give him cover on the crap job his administration is doing with SPD and reform. Oh, and he is being weak and backtracking on his promise to present a minimum wage proposal if the advisory couldn't come up with one. Sawant had every right to call him on the carpet.

Good for her...for reaping $50K of her alimony off her separation from her Microsoft husband. Oh the hyprocrisy

@22 I'm a bit slow. Can you describe what, exactly, is hypocritical about that?