This explains why he wasn't at the ceremony with the gov and county exec et al. He was too busy perfecting his press presentation to go mensch up in person...plus you know they all would have just rolled their eyes at him anyway.

Face it, while Seattle loves our Mayor, the Seattle-hating subsidized suburbanites and their elitist masters don't.

Governor, Kill This Tunnel!

This is a major and vital project, surely the feds have enough faith to help cover potential overruns, right? Er, right?

Anyone? Bueller?

@3, my prayer is that the White House wisenheimers up and heeds Nobel-Prize-chomping Paul Krugman's urgings for a substantial infrastructure stimulus and all our pocketbook-and-pearl-clutching worries prove unfounded.

Not holding my breath, but whatta dream....

@2 Who in this city loves Mayor McSlob?!? He is everything that is wrong with political leadership in this region. An obstructionist, flip-flopping, lawyer that hides behind an "aw shucks" beard and jeans. What a joke he is! If he blocks this project, I hope he's riding his bike under the viaduct during the next earthquake. I can't wait to run this SOB out of town and back under the mossy Sierra Club rock he came from!

@2 Seattle loves this mayor? You gotta be kidding.

@5 Aaron Pickus, you quit concern trolling this very minute, young man.

@5: You're right, Seattle loves its roads and hates huggy feely environmentalism. They hate bikes (nobody rides'em!), they hate progressives (never elect'em) and they most certainly hate folks that are laid back.

It would be blatantly stupid and a dangerous gamble with the political foundations of Seattle to discount and dismiss environmentalism.

Thankfully, this invisible consensus that the Mayor is gosh-darned awful and too green is little more than the same small handful of anti-progressives and anti-environmentalist voices.

@5

Mayor McSlob? Another nickname for his corpulence.

Has any Olympia buffoon ever written a contract.

Just tell the bidders they're liable for all cost overruns.

Then make sure they are bonded and insured for same.

Why is that so hard?

Dominic, you are one of the last loyal followers of McGinn. The rest of us gave up on him within his being in office a month.

Don't worry, when the last businesses move out of Seattle, we can all enjoy giving handjobs and pedicab rides to each other.

Killz the tunnelll! No morezz Karz!

McGinn is right to question the state and the governor on the tunnel.

I just makes no sense for Seattle to be on the hook for cost overruns on a tunnel whose primary purpose is to move people from north of Seattle to south of Seattle and not INTO Seattle and which, when completed, will move 40,000 extra cars onto Seattle's streets, driven by suburbanites avoiding tolls.

So, if we're going to have all that traffic on the street anyway, how about doing a nice surface boulevard? Cheaper, and same result.

I'm a little mystified at the governor on this tunnel thing. No way I'm voting for her next time around.

You all miss the obvious - the tunnel is the ONLY issue for the mayor. The budget, policing, putting together funding sources for the city- he doesn't really care, and he tires after a few meager tries. His handlers are positioning him as a lefty Palin - I'm fighting for you, the little guys! No way he runs again - because he will have created a awful mess during his term. And, no way he cares about what really happens to the city...we've been royally duped.

Keep fighting the tunnel Mr Mayor, all while medical marijuana patients are raided, citizens are beaten/killed by the police or random thugs in broad daylight. Id really wish he would commit fewer city resources fighting this. He's not going to win this battle, he needs to move on and stop acting like a paranoid tea party zealot.