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Called it. Every time anybody tries to cite evidence of her progressive record, all we hear is stuff Durkan did in the 1970s. She was a firecracker back in the day.

I continue to support 1970s Jenny Durkan for Mayor. My fantasy Seattle city government has 1970s Durkan right at the top.
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I'm not voting for anyone who wants to let homeless people use our city parks as their own personal campgrounds, toilets, and garbage cans with impunity. The way our city is getting trashed is a disgrace.
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@2 Ah well, you're out of luck. Mark Sidran is not a candidate.
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@3, a Mark Sidran is just what Seattle needs right now. I don't think anyone will like where the "safe" shoot up your drug sites will end up at
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If Jenny has been fighting the good fight for decades why does she need an introduction from the Governor? Also what has stopped Inslee from taking action on education and the homeless? There was a time, i shit you not, when people looked to Olympia for answers and leadership. This is why the Mayor's race is so important. It will set the political tone for the state. Vote Moon!
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Durkan is basically the Hillary Clinton of this election. Only a true moron would cast their vote for her. Vote Bernie (Moon)!
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@4: right now the safe shooting space appears to be the pike street express ramp, in full view of every commuter. needles are disposed of on the ramp itself, along with all garbage generated by the group. which the city refuses to clean up. there's hundreds of used needles laying on the pavement. about 16 junkies were there last night at 6:15.

will I like the new location less than that?
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@7: are you aware that Republicans control the State Senate and have blocked nearly all legislation, including the State Capital Budget?
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@10, Dude was elected in 2012. He has had years to build a coalition or figure it out. He has done neither. Blaming the Republicans might make you feel all cozy and sanctimonious but it does nothing to actually solve any problems. In fact it is a cop out that perpetuates them. You might as well be cheer leading for more homeless because it gives you a wedge issue for more establishment candidates to sink their platitudes into.
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Breaking, breaking!
Olympia Democrat endorses the Olympia Democrat!
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@11: build a coalition with whom? the people who built a coalition to oppose him?
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@14 Let's skip the string about swing districts and negotiations.
Here's some you own commentary expecting Inslee to do more being frustrated when he does less.

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The Unorganized Militia needs to be regulated better. One could argue that it needs to be well-regulated. With regulations. And organization.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Max Solomon
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Inslee has done more for America and WA than all you fucks put together.
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Every time anybody tries to cite evidence of her progressive record, all we hear is stuff Durkan did in the 1970s. She was a firecracker back in the day.

As opposed to your previous candidate for Mayor, who admitted she hadn't done fuck-all for affordable housing just last year:

And also, if the city truly cares about ensuring that people have the right to stay, the city will get invested in building housing and will expand what our own housing authority is doing around providing affordable housing, as well as redefining what is affordable.

ECB: Did you support the housing levy?

NO: Which levy?

ECB: The one that passed last year, that will bring in $290 million to build affordable housing.

NO: Honestly I don’t remember.


Little wonder you get so incensed at the mere mention of a record of accomplishment which goes back for decades.
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This is pure fascism! To stop democrat fascism in Seattle we must open Bertha Room in Seattle City Hall. Bertha was a Woman who was Mayor 100 years ago. Bertha Room in City Hall is in her honor and memory, so now that we will have a woman Mayor again, we should honor and respect every Woman and open it up to public speaking to restore Freedom of Speech to stop pure fascism today under a one party system that does not give us the chance to speak openly without limits.
Opening the Bertha room in City Hall once a week for open public conversation in all candidate forums without being controlled by the one party system of the Nazi social democrat mafia. The open Bertha room should show on Seattle Channel for equal honest conversations without limitations on time to both rich and poor community. We are to respect women so ...Women to women, as a women, candidate, and community leader it is my duty to use our impact of power in the voice of the people.
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Meanwhile, Cary Moon announced her endorsement by the Ballard 7942J0 Union of Wytches and Spooky Stevedores.
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drain the swamp
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@17

To recap: your defense of Jenny Durkan's alleged progressive credentials is to take shots at a non-candidate? Someone from a past race. Who is no longer in this election.

Sort of like when I ask what Durkan's progressive accomplishments are, we jump into the wayback machine and reminisce about how legit she was *cough* 40 years ago. Forty. Years.

Durkan's "record of accomplishment which goes back for decades." Really? Regale me with this list of accomplishments. I say her record of progressive accomplishments *ended* decades ago. Prove me wrong. Make me eat my words. What has she -- as a progressive -- done in the last 5 years? Or even 10 years?

We can't all be progressives. Some of us are centrists. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Why can't we just agree that Durkan is not a progressive. She's a centrist Democrat. She's from the party establishment. Let's have an honest discussion about that.

Or tell us, specifically, of her "record of accomplishment". You have everyone's attention. Do go on...
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To recap: your defense of Jenny Durkan's alleged progressive credentials is to take shots at a non-candidate?

You've already bitterly refused to admit Durkan's role in reform of Seattle's Police Department -- a cause you loudly claim to care about. Why should anyone bother trying to defend her "progressive credentials" to an audience who simply won't listen?

Someone from a past race. Who is no longer in this election.

I was merely noting how your knowledge of "progressive credentials" seems to extend no further than "talks big and does nothing." Therefore, why should anyone care about your criticism of another candidate's "progressive credentials"?

Sort of like when I ask what Durkan's progressive accomplishments are,

Do you really believe Gov. Inslee was responding to you? (Actually, it's plausible to believe you *would* really believe such a thing...)

I say her record of progressive accomplishments *ended* decades ago. Prove me wrong.

Your amusing belief that anyone cares about your opinion -- let alone that anyone considers you to be any kind of arbiter of any values -- survived the primary election quite nicely, didn't it? Well, a belief that owes nothing to reality doesn't have to consider facts, now does it?

Make me eat my words.

Do you still believe I'm a Democrat who supports Cary Moon for Mayor? Because you recently delivered a loud lecture to me on exactly those false premises.

Eat up. (Please let the rest of us know exactly how complete and utter horseshit tastes. You have everyone's attention. Do go on...)
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OK. Go. What has she accomplished? Just spit it out. What exactly did she do to reform the SPD? Do you even know? I'm listening.
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What exactly did she do to reform the SPD? Do you even know?

Try searching for "consent decree," should you actually bother to do your own research prior to voting in an election.

Am I still a Democrat who supports Moon? Do you even know?
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"Am I still a Democrat who supports Moon? Do you even know?"

Sorry, what were you saying? Do I even know what? Something about you? Are you now the topic? YOU? I don't give any fucks about THAT topic. Maybe your mom cares? Please, let's never speak of this topic (you) again.

As far as Jenny Durkan's progressive accomplishments, you have officially agreed that you don't know what they are. It is my job to google them and enumerate them. OK. Here they are:

A consent decree was signed with Seattle to reform the SPD. Not because Jenny Durkan led the way, but in large part IN SPITE of Jenny Durkan. It was grassroots activists who pushed it through. Durkan was often the roadblock that had to be overcome.

And now the judge has ruled that Seattle has continued to fail to meet the requirements of the decree. Where was Jenny Durkan?

You had your chance to tell us what she has accomplished, but you have no fucking idea. She has no progressive accomplishments.

She's running a profligate campaign that's pissing away money left and right. This campaign is the biggest budget organization she has ever managed, and it has no discipline at all. She will bring the same fiscal irresponsibility to Seattle's government.
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Do I even know what?

The topic upon which you were confidently lecturing me at the link. The topic about local politics. You know, a topic about which you were completely, utterly, and totally wrong. A piece of total wrongness from which you're fleeing now. One of those topics.

As far as Jenny Durkan's progressive accomplishments, you have officially agreed that you don't know what they are.

I have officially agreed that you won't vote for Durkan, no matter what she's done, because after Oliver lost, you transferred your witless fanaticism wholesale from Oliver to Moon. Therefore, I have also agreed any attempt to satisfy your repeated and impertinent demands for information you could locate yourself will be mocked, not satisfied. I also agree it's a lot of fun to mention your previous, utterly wrong-headed statements about our Mayoral election and watch you splutter and writhe in complete helplessness at the mere mention of your foolishness. I agree it's fun to watch you continue in the exact same way:

It is my job to google them and enumerate them. OK. Here they are:

Followed by not one single quote or (god forbid, after "google") a link, just more empty assertions. Priceless!

She's running a profligate campaign that's pissing away money left and right.

Which is exactly what you'd be saying now about Moon, if the choice was between Moon and Oliver.

This campaign is the biggest budget organization she has ever managed, and it has no discipline at all.

Got the PDC reports and federal budget figures to show that, have you? Or are you confidently using the same source(s) of information which told you I was (a) a Democrat (b) who supported Moon and (c) wanted Oliver to endorse Moon to help Moon?

That you petulantly refuse to examine your own obvious mistakes, and yet presume lecture another person on "discipline," may be the best joke you've made here so far. Please keep bringing the laughs.
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Wow, I'm a terrible person. Good thing I'm not running for mayor, right? Good thing Nikkita Oliver isn't running for mayor too. But changing the subject to me, or to Oliver, only underscores your unwillingness to talk about Jenny Durkan. The best you can do is allude to all kinds of great stuff about her that you would like everyone to assume is true. And then change the subject.

You know how to tell when you have a great candidate? You can't stop talking about all the great things your great candidate has done. When you find yourself changing the subject and leaving it up to the reader's imagination, it's because you've got a weak candidate on your hands. Are they paying you to try to sell Durkan? I hope so.

Remember Mike O'Brien's last race? He held fundraisers, and he campaigned. But not for himself. He campaigned for others whom he could help out. He knew his reelection was in the bag. What's-her-name, that Nextdoor.com nimby the Republicans dug up, had zero chance, so he didn't waste his time or money. He left that cash in his war chest, or gave it to candidates in other races. That's what you do when you really are ahead by 20 or 30 points, in real polling.

Durkan isn't doing anything of the kind. Because she's in trouble. The voters aren't buying it. That land-line only poll isn't the only poll that has happened. But Durkan's people won't release the results of the *real* polling, the polls that accurately sample all likely voters. That one is bad news, and it's the reason she's spending so much money.

It's not that Durkan doesn't share Seattle's values. She surely does. It's that she, like most establishment Democrats, doesn't share Seattle's willingness to take risks in the name of what might be achieved, if only we try. This is exactly why Sawant beat Conlin: while he actually believes in exactly the same things she does, he was never willing to try. He had a hard time even saying out loud what Sawant is willing to shout. He didn't think Seattle could set a higher minimum wage, or make any gains towards rent control. Republicans got him whipped down like a beaten dog.

Cary Moon belongs to the faction that is willing to stretch, and see how much we can achieve. It's that kind of thinking that won us $15 per hour, gay marriage, legal pot. We don't have rent control but the very fact that someone wanted it got us better protections for renters, less tolerance for slumlords and their heinous bullshit. It could have given us a non-car-centric Alsaskan Way viaduct replacement if cowardly establishment Democrats hadn't used their "no we can't" thinking to get us a fucking car tunnel. Establishment Dems would be pissing their pants facing a defamation suit from a slumlord. People like Sawant are proud to have the right enemies. Seattle has come around to that, all the more so in the age of Trump.

Durkan's going to need a lot of help and a lot more money to pull this one off. Seattle has had a taste of what you can do if you actually try. You don't win them all, but you don't win any if you don't even make the effort because you've already given up.

How come you're so obsessed with that black lady candidate, by they way? Something about her seems to have really triggered you. I wonder what it could be...
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A rich White person looking out for their own unkind . . . again . . . *rolls POC eyeballs* . . . . --- http://littlesis.org & http://theyrule.net .
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You know how to tell when you have a great candidate?

You know how to tell when someone knows he's losing a debate? When he keeps trying to dictate the terms of that debate.

You can't stop talking about all the great things your great candidate has done.

So, what great things had Nikkita Oliver done to win your support for her Mayoral bid? Go ahead, quote your many comments here on Slog last summer wherein you simply could not stop talking about all the great things she had done. What were her many luminescent accomplishments which, singly or in combination, utterly gobsmacked you into supporting her? Take us back down memory lane, to that time, many many years -- um, several months -- ago, when you were full of praise for her great track record. Regale us with your accounts of her glories.

You have everyone's attention. Do go on...
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Surprise, surprise. Inslee endorses Durkan? This has been the plan since before she even made her announcement. She's not the establishment candidate, her as mayor would be like having a member of Congress in charge of Seattle. The gap - the gulf between them and us will be more gaping than ever.

People are cracked to vote for Durkan. She is coming into this race with so much money from the WRONG interests. Give her the city - she'll become more powerful than any mayor in the history of Seattle - and the city will be given away to the developers more than ever before - with no going back EVER.

This is what Dianne Feinstein did to San Francisco. And some of you more familiar with the Bay Area and that period will remember how much her home town hated and cursed her for it later. But .. by then,what could Dianne care about it? She was off the governor's office - and then on to the Senate.

The gap between rich and poor is getting worse and worse. Wealth is accumulating ever more greatly at the top with the rest sinking and people being driven out of the city. These interests paying for her campaign and her favors don't care about the rest of us.

I would go with Moon. She's a much more modest candidate with a very strong head on her shoulders. She will be 'with' the city and its residents as opposed to Durkan who will be far away -- up in the lofty heights with the governor and the rest.

The city is still ours with Moon. With Durkan, it's gone.

WTFU people. (Unfortunately, most of you won't - and you don't even have a great big evil as an excuse. The real truth is out.. It was never the greater evil. Most are fully brainwashed by the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.)

Also - these politicians like Inslee - they don't even respect the will of voters. What did they do with the superdelegates? They betrayed the people of this state. Inslee refused to vote the way Washington State voted - for Bernie Sanders. They went against their own state Democratic Party policy - which they abided by in 2008 in switching from Clinton to Obama - because they didn't want to support a democratic socialist.

Well maybe we don't want to support them!
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@8 Like Clinton - is that ever the truth! The moment she stepped into the race - she was like, "I am the Inevitable."

Sure, with all that money backing her to steal Seattle away from its residents.

People, for once in your dumb voting lives - stop doing what they tell you do. Vote for OUR interests, not THEIRS. Stop being manipulated.
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So many of you don't even vote any more! It's make-believe.

There's Jay Inslee - he will select your candidate for you - along with the corporate bought "leadership" in Olympia and Washington telling you what to do - while PRETENDING this is a real and democratic election. These leaders despise democracy - they can't stand it. That's why they refused to comply with party policy with the superdelegates.

And you will all sleep-walk through this election, as well, believing that you really did the voting all of your own - when you are just doing what you are told to do by a bunch of bought politicians.And you can't imagine voting independently of their INSTRUCTIONS AND ORDERS.

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How come you're so obsessed with that black lady candidate, by they way?

Ahem, the correct term is, "queer black woman of color." Please make a note of it.

Something about her seems to have really triggered you.

You might not want to throw around terms you clearly do not understand.

I wonder what it could be...

Cute. I've repeatedly told you exactly what it was: she sat for an interview with one of our city's top political writers, and was embarrassingly unprepared to answer the questions she had herself provoked with her own statements. (By calling her a "statement candidate," I may have inadvertently paid her more of a compliment than she deserves.)

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