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Posted by retrogrouch]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:01:24 -0800 The Stranger
I say stop worrying about the Republicans give them time to rethink social justice. We need to watch to see what the Dems are going to do. In the past enough of them went along with zero tolerance laws and sentencing polices that created new prisons in Republican counties, and filled them with poor, brown and black folks from blue counties. King and Pierce County Liberal D's are not innocent. They benefit from the "failure industry" Dem fingerprints all over them. We have some major issues to work out if we are going to be a social justice state. When the state constitution paced education as the "paramount duty" of the legislature the color of the students wer much lighter tan They are now. The legislature must begin to see think of the darkening school population as worthy. Not as merely future low wage workers, nonprofit agency clients, renters, or future prisoners. We will see what Jay does.
Posted by Dabiha]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:24:23 -0800 The Stranger
While I understand the frustration on those of you on the West Side, imagine what it's like living in a county that, in many ways, is run like a plantation. A relatively tiny group of voters make all the decisions for the rest of us. I spent several weekends & weeknights doorbelling for progressive candidates, from Obama on down to a candidate for the 15th LD. After hundreds of hours of face-to-face talking to voters encouraging them to mark their ballots & turn their ballots in, our candidate still didn't even break 37%.

But just because the majority of VOTERS is redder than red, do not mistake that the majority of PEOPLE feel quite differently about public services and the taxes that provide them.

Many of those folks--many of them Latino, working-class, unemployed or under-employed, with few educational or economic opportunities--desperately need whatever social safety net is still left intact. But many of them also feel disenfranchised, disempowered, and cynical about the political process as a means of fixing these problems.

It isn't as simple as the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
Posted by mabtoncat]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:35:39 -0800 The Stranger Two counties in Washington are in the top 100 richest counties in the country. King and San Juan, both Blue/Democrat. So the old often repeated phrase about Republicans only being the rich is basically the reverse in Washington state. The rich counties vote Democrat, the poorer counties vote Republican. I'm willing to bet this goes for California too.

I'm an independent so I'm just pointing out what the numbers show.
Posted by Brockbaby]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:18:09 -0800 The Stranger
But ... nobody wants to admit that.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:04:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ace9415]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:03:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TJ]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:31:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by internet_jen]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:05:37 -0800 The Stranger http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/eve…


Posted by David Nixon]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:54:53 -0800 The Stranger
no, they wouldn't its all limo liberal lies to them, and nothing will change their votes or outlook until they were actually cut off, which goes against classic distributions that liberals want so bad so this whole exercise is just a huge circle jerk.

oh poor us, we spend money on them and they vote against us boo hoo.

Everyone who wasn't fox news did this when Gore got defeated, and what happened? nothing. In fact the tea party came about, so you actually did worse overall.

Posted by meanie]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:19:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by shotsix]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:14:35 -0800 The Stranger
Along the lines of @3, I think an initiative mandating that tax revenue be spent in the county in which it was raised would get these rural voters to realize just how much they need us (that, or Seattle would end up with some of the best schools in the country). Ironically, they would be digging their own grave in voting for it.
Posted by T]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:12:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:02:41 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by Bored@School]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:01:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by danb]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:58:39 -0800 The Stranger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_…

Isn't that the sort of redistribution The Stranger is typically in favor of? Or is it only OK when the redistribution is from wealthy Republicans to poor Democrats?
Posted by joelgrus]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:45:21 -0800 The Stranger
Fiscal Federalism by the Numbers
http://www.pewstates.org/research/data-v…
Posted by internet_jen]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:38:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Hanoumatoi]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:38:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Josh Bis]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:15:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:49:36 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by AlanS]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:38:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by cliche]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:34:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by westello]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:20:53 -0800 The Stranger