How could public campaign financing possibly fail!?!? The out-sized influence rich people have in our elections is exactly what is wrong with our system! Level the playing field, and true progressive ideas may actually have a chance.

The existence of PACs would have made public financing obsolete. Nobody wanted to throw more money at a system too broken to simply tweak.

The public votes for those who can get things done over those who spout socialist drivel? Shocking.

Can't wait to see how many jobs are lost in SeaTac. Unemployed is after all better than working for a low wage.

I don't make much more than minimum wage, but I can't help looking forward to the side effects of this. Hotel and airport workers in SeaTac had better prepare themselves for a hell of a lot more competition. Learn to kiss your boss's ass BIG TIME cuz there's gonna be some seriously qualified people fighting for your jobs. Don't speak good English? Bye-bye. Call in sick too often? Out you go. Not getting along well with co-workers? Out you go! Demanding your "rights" at work? Shut up or get out. There's 150 experienced, college educated
English speaking candidates with stellar backgrounds who are not "overqualified" in the least just itching to replace you!!!

Something I don't understand about Sawant is why rent control is such a cause celebre. Rent control is to economics as climate change denial is to physics. The empirical evidence that it's counterproductive is really strong, and the theoretical basis is in every first-year textbook. In a poll by the American Economic Association, 93% of respondents said that "a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing." So when Sawant says that's because academic economists are in the pockets of landowning corporations, it's like saying that all the scientists who believe in global warming are in the pocket of special interests.

And yet people who say "we should trust the experts" on climate change, vote the opposite on rent control. It's very strange.

Something I don't understand about Sawant is why rent control is such a cause celebre. Rent control is to economics as climate change denial is to physics. The empirical evidence that it's counterproductive is really strong, and the theoretical basis is in every first-year textbook. In a poll by the American Economic Association, 93% of respondents said that "a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing." So when Sawant says that's because academic economists are in the pockets of landowning corporations, it's like saying that all the scientists who believe in global warming are in the pocket of special interests.

And yet people who say "we should trust the experts" on climate change, vote the opposite on rent control. It's very strange.

Wow, SECB sucked worse than they did last year.

Thanks guys, using your endorsements, and my very own skepticism, I am now $127.34 richer.

Penny betting pools will be buying me a couple of Japan Dog lunches.

Oh, Student_j, you are half right.

Global Warming has been debunked. It's now called Climate Change. Most of the perpetrators have been exposed as shills for special interest groups.

Life moves fast, try to keep up.

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Stranger fact checking at its best! Yes, a few small unions, or subgroups of unions, or things that are loosely considered unions but aren't really - like the voluntary membership organization called WashTech, endorsed Sawant. Most didn't. Why? Kshama and her supporters don't do anything but show up at other peoples' events and try to rebrand them as hers. She didn't organize those fast food strikes, the marches, the foreclosure defenses, or anything else. When she was arrested, unlike naive young people she's encouraged to do the same, she had a lawyer waiting for her, financial support, and an entire campaign waiting the few hours it took to get her released. Even at that, she had shown up at another group's event that she put no real effort into in order to generate media coverage. When she'd gotten that coverage, she moved on. She didn't stay involved with that group or that fight. That's Kshama Sawant, ready to drop her current interest or slogan for whatever's clever (and trending!) in the moment. Gee, how could Seattle fail to see the merits of this woman? It's like we could have elected The Internet to city council . . . and didn't. I haz a sad nao!

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@4 Thats exactly what I hope will happen. I fly in and out of Seatac monthly but I never use any of the services because the the level of service provided is just under what you would recieve at a state prison. Pay them more and after the service improves I'll start getting some fish and chips while I wait for my flight.

Only goes to show that many Seattleites are not politically active,and many who are are not progressivists (and quite a few of them are "White" Supremacists).Campaign-finance reform seems to be required by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (as well as all other types of electoral reform,including banning at-large and mixed voting. --- http://www.fairvote.org , http://www.verifiedvoting.org , http://www.blackboxvoting.org , http://www.ballot-access.org , http://www.citizensincharge.org , http://www.ballotpedia.org , http://www.corporatewelfare.org , http://www.proportionalrepresentation.or… , http://www.justice.gov

@8: Not sure if you're being facetious, trolling or are just an ignorant, belligerent, condescending liar but in any case, climate change/global warming has NOT been debunked. Scientists -- real scientists -- almost unanimously agree it's real and a threat to civilization. The only special interest groups in the global warming "debate" are resource extraction companies, their owners and the paid hacks they fund to spread lies. Go read... well, any real newspaper or major media outlet's reporting. Even Wikipedia.

Also, evolution occurs, gravity exists, homosexuality is not a choice, the earth is billions of years old and some researchers are starting to find evidence that conservatives are just plain dumb and mean.

Life moves fast and some of us are trying to keep up. Stop throwing rocks at our ankles.