Murray is hard at work drafting a new compromise plan to go to the legislature that will include both $10,000 for Metro funding and $25,000,000,000 for new freeways in Eastern Washington.

Ugh. Murray is annoying.

Murray's pettiness is surpassed only by his stupidity.

@3

Well, then, it's a damn good thing that he has a first-rate staff earning competitive salaries to support him!

More property taxes in Seattle. This will surely help to decrease gentrification and reduce the cost of living.

Oh well. Who wants to actually own a home. It's already only rich people that can afford one anyways.

@1 for the What Murray Will Actually Do win

Why doesn't that moron just pull one of the many Mayor McGinn transit proposals off the shelf. You know, all those great proposals the McGinn administration put together in the four years they were hounded by the Stranger?

@5
How does a property tax of $0.22 on the grand increase gentrification? What? Would reducing property tax decrease gentrification? I dont think that if we lower taxes, the rich will move out of town...

I'm going with C: genuine fear that a tax for transit will limit the city's ability to raise taxes for things like parks and preschools.

Because I sure as shit aint voting for three property tax bumps in one year.

If the mayor worked as hard on saving transit as he did sabotaging the transit initiative to do so, he'd have a plan (hell, even a statement with principles for a plan) by now.

@9 Instead of Murray unilaterally deciding that a progressive funding source for transit isn't a priority for the city (especially on the heels of 66% in-city approval for Prop 1), shouldn't he be open about that and engage the city and council in that dialog instead of trying to do it himself in a back-room deal?

He's had two weeks to issue some kind of statement about his intent to introduce a plan. Or guiding principles for funding priorities and a path forward. Or issue direction to the council for options. Or a response to the transit activists who tried to speak with him about Plan C.

Instead, nothing but working against a plan and a flat-footed response when his behind-the-scenes sabotage was uncovered.

I support the spirit of I-118, but where Seattle creates it's own system. We used to own metro until the courts turned it over to the King County, remember?

The problem with contracting with metro to save Seattle services is that it creates a subsidy. Over time, Metro will spend its money county wide, while Seattle pays for two systems. The county system and the city system.

There must be a better way. How about setting up a new kind of city transit. Vans? How about the city support ride sharing instead of banning it. (I think those pink mustache's just annoyed the council).

rshoff @12 - there's a non-supplantation requirement in the measure to prevent Metro from getting any of this money if they use it to cut other Seattle service. We already buy 45,000 service hours a year in the same way our initiative proposes, and they haven't done what you fear, either! :)

Ben @ 13 - Keep up the good work. I think you would make an excellent mayor. The position should be open soon, as I can't imagine Mayor what's-his-name lasting too much longer before the recall petitions start circulating...

Call the limp dick plan it is, Plan E.D.

If Ed really wants us to name the plan after him.

@15 +1!

Hey, Stranger writers - the text of the initiative needs to be approved before the 180 day period where signatures can be gathered. This was filed only a week ago..
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/n…

My god you nattering naybobs. Here on the slog is where you belong, where you are validated. Stay here and never venture outwards, where Seattle thrives thanks to Ed Murray, the best thing that's happened to Seattle in years. That we were saved from the embarrassment that was McGinn and his band of amateurs will only occur to you years from now. After you've licked your wounds. Keep roiling and echoing and nattering. You are the absolute perfect mirror to the vomitous eastsiders on the Times comment threads. Be sure to slander and badmouth Ed, whatever he does! Do it and keep doing it! Quick! You're not doing it fast enough!

@19--nabobs, motherfucker.

@19: "never venture outwards, where Seattle thrives thanks to Ed Murray"

Things have changed so much. It's amazing, really. 2013 is like a distant memory.

@19- perhaps you could lay out the mayors accomplishments for us. So far he seems to me to be the divisive mayor McGinn was accused of being. Setting aside my usual level of snark, what makes Murray a competent mayor? He started off by pissing off the arts community, moved on to fucking up police reform, road Kshama Sawant's coattails on the $15.00 minimum wage train and now appears to be working against transit activists in the city he allegedly leads. When has he led? He seems to follow or obstruct at will, but leadership seems to be beyond him. Please elucidate.

The fact that Team Murray was caught so unawares when the measure failed so miserably is quite the statement about Team Murray. How very unprepared of them. Certainly there had to be some polling done, this MAJOR UPSET didn't come out of nowhere.

@12, yes, Seattle should "create" its own transit system. Use all that surplus money laying around City Hall to buy buses, hire drivers, create routes, etc. Or vans, yes vans instead of buses, approximately a dozen vans per current busload of passengers, all those thousands of little vans traveling along our spacious empty streets. Geezus, get a clue.

Maybe Murray is more interested in finding a compromise we can all live with instead of immediately abdicating the cities responsibilities to the rest of King County, the region, and the State.

@27: I don't think you know what "abdicate" means.