From The Stranger‘s election endorsements:

Port of Seattle Commissioner Position No. 3

Rob Holland

We didn’t have to think too hard about endorsing Rob Holland. Holland is progressive, intelligent, and charming, and his opponent, David Doud, is a barely closeted Republican and so stupid he could be a research fellow at the Discovery Institute. Doud cochaired King County for McCain—how’d that work out for you, Doud?—and says he’s running because the job is “synergistic with my career.” Gee, it’s your world, Doud. The rest of us just vote in it.

And we’re voting for Holland.

Now you have even more reason to loathe Doud. He’s sent out a mailer that is a hat-trick of bullshit.

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First spoonful of bullshit—the mailer claims that Holland “has a history of mismanaging public money.” A representative of King County Citizens for Port Reform responded on the P-I’s politics blog:

“Doud is referring to a mistake made by the State of Washington, not Rob Holland,” Heather Weiner of King County Citizens for Port Reform said in an-mail. The “unemployment department overpaid Rob by less than $1,000 and then asked for it back. Rob refunded the money.”

Second spoonful of bullshit—it attributes the following to “Laura Turner” of “Seattle Times online”:

Rob Holland is running a campaign financed by unions, and he promises them favors in return. He embraces ACORN, whose illegal activities are well known and he promises to use Port funds to enrich special interests.

Who is Laura Turner? A reporter for the Times? Um, no. She’s a commenter—a one-time commenter and probably a Doud-campaign sock puppet—on a Times thread. (More importantly: do unions + ACORN = unicorns? Does Holland embrace magical creatures?)

Third spoonful of bullshit—the mailer lists Holland’s home address. Seeing as Holland is both black and gay and Doud supporters are of the conservative stripe, that could be interpreted as intimidation. Because listing the home addresses of your political opponents is always and everywhere wrong and the people who do it are rotten human beings.

David Doud: more dickish by the day.

(Everybody freak out in the comments thread about our endorsement for the other port seat right… NOW!)

UPDATE

Ms. Weiner, of Reform the Port, identifies not three, but five spoonsful of bullshit in Doud’s mailer:

1. Publishing the home address of Joseph Moscrip and his partner, port candidate Rob Holland. Joseph has reportedly told people that he feels very unsafe and that “any kook could come harass us at home now.” This mailer went to tens of thousands of voter households around the county.

2. Featuring a quote from the “Seattle Times Online.” The quote was not featured in a Seattle Times article, as Doud implies. It is actually taken from a blog comment after a 200 word blog piece on an unrelated topic (the Mayor’s race). The supposed source, a “Laura Turner” registered for the first time on October 10th to put up the comment, and has not commented since.

3. Stating that Rob Holland has “mismanaged public money.” Doud is referring to a mistake made by the State of Washington, not Rob Holland. Rob told Publicola that he paid back the discrepancy.

4. Publishing a copyrighted image without permission. The image is a still taken from a YouTube video posted by Alex King, who has repeatedly filed compliants against Doud’s campaign for stealing his work.

5. Saying Rob “embraces ACORN, whose illegal activities are well known…” Rob attended a candidate forum hosted by ACORN, along with Al Yuen, Max Vekich and Tom Albro’s campaign staff, in Boulevard Park last August. Ross Hunter, who endorsed David Doud, was also at the event. I was there, too.

Doud is also running radio ads with similar language. And County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, who is featured on Doud’s flier, has recorded robocalls for Doud. Reichert has endorsed Doud too.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

22 replies on “David Doud: Dickish!”

  1. Sigh. Okay. I’ll start the puppy pile.

    David Doud is clearly desperate. I got this flier in the mail and thought it was a joke at first.

    Doud and Albro are funded by the same polluters, corporate interests, and port insiders. They are both endorsed by evangelical preachers, Republicans, east side developers.

    If you vote for Rob Holland, vote for Max Vekich. Otherwise, Rob will be an isolated vote on the port commission, voting 1-4 or 2-3 on important pollution, community, and economic justice issues impacting all of us.

    More from the folks at Port Reform: http://www.portreform.org

  3. “Because listing the home addresses of your political opponents is always and everywhere wrong and the people who do it are rotten human beings.”

    Yet the gay activists who want to see the addresses and names of those who signed the petition for R-71 get a thumbs up from the stranger.

  5. aww, no links for anons?

    google maps for 3211 Evergreen Pt Rd 98039. Beautiful view, and obviously we should be proud to have such a successful, wealthy man as port something-or-other.

  6. I wonder how much money Doud got from Seattle City Council, or did he have to pay them “donations” to let the Port scot free from cost overruns to the Billionaires Tunnel which will be paid for not by the Billionaires who want it (and don’t live in Seattle) but by the Citizens of Seattle (who won’t get to use it, since it will have tolls and zero downtown exits).

  7. 3 ftw

    Candidate home address IS public ‘need to know’ information- candidates have to show they live in the jurisdiction they are running to represent.
    Typical Stranger blend of hypocrisy, dickheadedness and stupidity.

  9. re:Update
    “5. Saying Rob “embraces ACORN, whose illegal activities are well known…” Rob attended a candidate forum hosted by ACORN, along with Al Yuen, Max Vekich and Tom Albro’s campaign staff, in Boulevard Park last August. Ross Hunter, who endorsed David Doud, was also at the event. I was there, too.”

    Gawd, that IS sleazy!
    Does Dominic Holden write Dodd’s shit?
    Cause he has “LINKED” Hutchinson to several organizations just because she happened to be in the same building where someone from the organization appeared on the program…

  11. Don’t be such a pussy, Brendan.
    We just want to “politely confront” candidates…
    After all, faggot niggers is two of our favorite kinds of people.

  12. @ 7. That neither explains nor justifies listing the address in a mailer.

    (And you and 3 should click the “listing the home addresses of your political opponents is always and everywhere wrong” link before you get too pleased with yourselves.)

  13. @1 Publicola put out its endorsements today and – unlike the Stranger – actually chose one for Port Commission Position 4: Max Vekich.

    I hope Stranger readers resist the temptation to write in “Greasy, Half-Empty Tub of Crisco,” as the snarky staff here would have you do. (Weak, SECB.) And thanks for the tip, @1.

    (Publicola has some other significant difference from the Stranger cheat sheet, and considering local politics is all they do, I think I’ll follow their advice this time.)

  14. The REAL video can be found on ACORN of King County’s facebook page.

    http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=137269…

    This is the WHOLE video of the event in its TRUE context not altered and manipulated by desperate Dodd campaign hacks. The event was fantastic as every ACORN event I have attended. I shot the video and NEVER was I asked permission to use or alter it, NEVER was I asked to use it certainly not in LIES about ACORN, a grassroots organization I wholeheartedly support and volunteer for. Despite multiple copyright infringement complaints, Dodd’s people are STILL stealing my video and photos and LYING about ACORN which is a VERY good organization and Dodd (like some others right now) is trying to take advantage of Fox “news”‘s relentless and stupid attacks on other ACORN offices to discredit the INCREDIBLE work of ACORN’s members here in King County and Washington state.

  15. 12
    We read your link.
    We read it when it happened.

    The Scary Unpleasantness you cite was a reaction to your original dickheaded post including addresses of private citizens (Do yourselves a favor. Hire a real editor. Really…).

    Evidently you don’t get the sopping irony and cowardly hypocrisy of your outrage here vs your attitude toward releasing R71 names.

  20. @ 15… Fucking hell. The “sopping irony” IS WHY HE LINKED THAT SENTENCE IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE.

    Spoiler alert, genius: He’s not really outraged by the address issue.

    Jesus Christ, I’m surrounded by idiots.

    In a comments thread.

    Surprise, surprise.

  21. ACORN members did a fantastic job at organizing a REAL GRASSROOTS good old fashioned neighborhood candidate forum. Everyone was welcome and people came from all over King County. ACORN has been engaging the low-moderate income neighborhoods in King County with THEIR port for the past 3 years. This work is IMPORTANT!

    ACORN members need your help and support to fight back at the lies and attacks from those who do not want low-moderate income people to have collective power.

    Help ACORN of King Co. NOW.

    DONATE to ACORN of King Co. HERE:
    http://tinyurl.com/helpacornkingco

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