While Greg Nickels begins his assault on the new batch of top-tier challengers in the mayor’s race, Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan, former frontrunner Jan Drago’s campaign has released a the latest chapter in her blueprint for the city focusing on seniors and health and human services. Except it’s not really new, it’s just an updated version of the blueprint she released nearly three weeks ago. Only this time there are a few more bullet points and vision statements, and the campaign removed the word “education” from the title.

Speaking of the vision statement, Drago’s new entry makes sure to continue her attack on Greg Nickels’ leadership style. She has spent much of the campaign so far attempting to paint him as a bully who doesn’t play well with others. Note the subtlety:

Jan Drago knows that city government exists to serve the people of Seattle. Her administration will be about the “we” in Seattle, not the “me.” Jan knows that the best solutions come from the neighborhoods and from collaboration and cooperation among the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Seattle can’t solve these problems in isolation nor can Seattle be the regional answer to all of our shelter and human service needs. Jan will work with regional, state and national leaders to forge solutions.

Drago’s campaign spokesperson Mark Matassa told me today that the timing of this specific release had nothing to do with a strategy to attract older voters. And that makes sense because, unfortunately for Jan, that play is probably a few days late and more than a few dollars short. The latest poll, released August 6, has Drago in a distant fifth with seven percent of the vote, a far cry from those halcyon days when Drago was positioning herself as a dangerous challenger.

6 replies on “Drago (Sort of) Makes One Last Play for Seniors (But Not Really)”

  2. Do these idiots know people already have their ballots and many have already voted? I’d love to get a count of the percent of ballots already received at the drop-off locations.

  6. Fact Check: There’s no “we” in “Seattle”!

    The menu of embedded pronouns would seem to include “Se”

    In some sentences, se is used in an impersonal sense with singular verbs to indicate that people in general, or no person in particular, performs the action.

    There’s also the sexually ambiguous indirect object pronoun “le“

    Out of context, there is no way we can know the meaning.

    Ella le escribe una carta.
    She writes him a letter.
    She writes her a letter.
    She writes you (formal) a letter.

    Either one offers a perfectly reasonable starting point for Seattle-centric political sloganeering.

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