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Can't wait to read your logic for Licata instead of Isreal.
I'm voting for Larry, but Dow is another good choice for KC Exec too.
When you lose the Bag Tax vote, we can talk about how most of us who voted it down want a plastic bag BAN instead, k?
I can imagine a functional and productive City Hall with Mike and Mike especially, that is truly progressive and future-minded.
180 Nickerson St., Seattle, WA, 98109 8:30 am, with a BBQ afterwards.
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Good way to get the word out and join the fun.
@12, even though I've already filled out my ballot, I wish we didn't have all mail-in voting. The chance that I'll forget to drop the ballot in the mail is much higher than only having to remember to vote in person on election day. The closest ballot drop is much farther than my old voting place, and I don't trust US mail to deliver my vote from a standard mailbox.
Besides, receiving a ballot in a form that most people associate with junk advertising is not the best way to build civic engagement. I doubt voting percentages will budge much.
"dissent?"
There was no dissent about your post - it was 100% whiny bitch.
Savage is a twerp.
Write it down.
I dissent from the majority opinion of the Slog editorial board and criticize the employment/acknowledgment/consideration of the opinions of a highs school drop out named Dominic Holden
Hair-splitting my choice of words does not detract from my point that I am concerned about this contribution to an opinionated position of power
It's Seattle. Don't like it? Then don't live here.
P.S. - the smartest, wisest, and "up by his bootstraps and now a roaring wealthy success story" person I know is a high school dropout. And looking back, I wish I'd escaped the stupidity of my high school and gotten my GED instead.
P.P.S. - go Dorsal Plants!
I've run this through Google Translator several times in different languages but I still can't make it come out as understandable English.
Are you saying that Dominic wields too much power because he writes for The Stranger? And this makes you angry because he's a "highs school drop out"?
That's what I think you mean. I think you're dumber than a fucking lamppost. And, while I very much doubt Mr. Holden did fail to graduate from high school, I note that even if that's so, he can write understandable English, which puts him way ahead of you. What grade level are you at, missie?
don't like the weather? MOVE.
don't like the police? MOVE.
don't like the Blue Angels? MOVE.
don't like pit bulls? MOVE.
All of these are topics are common threads within this blog yet are argued about constantly. I guess if you have something to argue, you should just STFU and get out of here so that the Majority can rule, right Will in Seattle?
Hey doesn't most of Slog just HATE you? Why don't you move, Will?
oh rite.
It make me want to put a big gold star on the safety helmet she must strap on every time she leaves her very special home.
According to common knowledge that isn't addressed (how convenient!) by Dominic, he didn't finish high school and was a waiter before he was tapped to be an informational/opinion gatekeeper for the Stranger.
I guess your blind allegiance to the Stranger is just that:
blind.
But just because his name tag is in print rather than on his shirt, does not mean it is worth more to our Democratic Process.
I'm honestly ashamed of being such a cunt about it, but I'd rather be a cunt than a fool.
We've all seen how successful the monorail was as a growing business model. It fucking caught on fire--literally, not financially. I choose something different for my Port economy. I will protect the interest of the local families who work at the Port and vote for MAX VEKICH.
Dom's smarter than you, sugar, and better-looking. That's why he has a job at a popular magazine-slash-website, while you have....er, what is it that you have, exactly? I'm reading back through some of your comments here on Slog, and I'm not seeing a whole lot. In fact, you don't really seem to have a point of view at all, other than everyone else's is shitty.
Even if he was a waiter I'd trust his opinion more than yours, as your education was clearly worthless. You're incoherent, pissy, and whiny. You won't shut up about how disagreeing with you is stifling your dissent, like you're some kind of political martyr. And nothing you say, on any post, is well-informed. I'll take pretty much any waiter's opinion over yours.
Come on, Dozen, who do you like for Port Commissioner? America is waiting. Now's your chance. That mean old bastard Dominic Holden can't stop you laying down the LAW, girl.
WFT is up with endorsing Albro - he's got no experience, is ass-deep in a cushy deal with the monorail and is a freakin' republican!
Patu, Blum and Ellington are also my picks.
Dorsol is fabulous, too, but I'm voting Bagshaw. It's really nice to have all these great candidates.
Holden was serving you your food 8 months ago, the best job a high school drop out could hope to get.
then he was hired to report on drugs for us (The Week in Drugs, anyone?).
This guy then moved into reporting on anything and everything local, supplanting Feit, Erica, and others who, although controversial, at least had the intellectual background, diversity of encountered ideals, and complexity and challenge of education to weigh opinions and difficult topics lobbied by the ever-changing landscape of the beautifully progressive atmosphere that living in our amazing city affords.
I am a skeptic, and I only hope that all of my fellow citizens are skeptics, as we should be.
No. What you are is a loon, perhaps a batshit crazy loon, but more likely just a stupid dumb as rocks dolt of a loon, spouting nonsense wherethefuckever. Take your brand of boring bile and fuck off.
@60 you are mistaken, you are on topic. spoiler alert: 58 has a joke for you about being new to the internet.
by the way, stranger, thanks for the guide -- i don't always agree, but i always use the guide.
... oh, you said SAY something useful, not do. Nevermind.
We've all seen how successful the monorail was as a growing business model. It fucking caught on fire--literally, not financially. I choose something different for my Port economy. I will protect the interest of the local families who work at the Port and vote for MAX VEKICH.
We've all seen how successful the monorail was as a growing business model. It fucking caught on fire--literally, not financially. I choose something different for my Port economy. I will protect the interest of the local families who work at the Port and vote for MAX VEKICH.
you are probably onto something with that.
somewhat of the ecce homo/loveschild thing.
maybe all from the same crap infested "brain"?
trolls kind of blend all together after a while though.
Dominic, it's kind of pathetic to create a sockpuppet persona that brings attention to an irrelevant detail rather than important things, like the lack of depth in your reporting and your dogged insistence that an initiative was effective, when it had the luck of going into effect at the same time as a major gang war started and drained police resources that would have otherwise been devoted to busting your high ass.
What did they do to you? Did they ask you unfair questions at a job interview? Pan your band in the music section? Complain about the service at your restaurant? Reject your generous offer of a midnight handjob in Cal Anderson park?
Why the grudge?
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I think Dominic is what - 21? - and he writes intelligently, lucidly, and - most importantly - comprehensibly. Did he reject you or what? He is certainly prettier. Are you John Balliol in Javanese drag? What do you have against waiters? I'll bet you a Molly Moonpie several of the Stranger's recommended candidates were one-time waiters.
Exactly why I think Dozen is Dominic. I just wish he realized that he is the Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack of the Stranger.
The absurdity of her arguments, that's what. Yeah, I write just like that. Me talk pretty one day.
To clarify, by "her" I mean "Dozen to Play."
I like McGinn, but am dismayed at his lack of support for the tunnel, which I favor, so I'm going with Mallahan. If the Viaduct simply "goes away" with no replacement whatsoever in accordance with McGinn's vision, there WILL be massive gridlock in downtown Seattle, and wishing it away would not make it go away. I'm green, I commute on my bike and bundle errands to decrease car use as much as possible. However, earlier this month I spent approximately ONE HOUR on gridlocked surface streets on a trip from Ballard to West Seattle because the viaduct was blocked of that day--it was a Saturday--for some event. During rush hour traffic on a weekday or a game night, without the tunnel I can easily visualize gridlock extending along Elliott/15th as far north as Ballard, and as far South as the South Seattle Bridge. McGinn is flat out wrong that this crumbling POS infrastructure doesn't need to be replaced.
She'll prolly get an A.
Who gives a shit?
Hey, that's a great article idea: "WHO GIVES A SHIT?"
He'll finish a distant 3rd.
endorsements are like saying "word up brotha", sometimes it means something, other times it's like "bitch ass, please"
these ones are like both of that, kudos SECB
"Holden was serving you your food 8 months ago, the best job a high school drop out could hope to get"
ROTFL. Wow. You really are a stuck up little condescending thing, now aren't you? I am a HS drop out and I make between 45-50 K per year in the medical industry here in Seattle. I also am college educated with a degree and am well on my way to owning my own home after I get my doctorate.
anyone can punch keys on the board and appear eloquent enough with the guidance of an editor -- that really doesn't change the matter of fact of a narrow background
Albro? The handpicked stooge of the Dinsmore-inside-the-port-profit-off-your-tax-dollars crowd? When did you all go off the rails? Is it that is opponent is from a union? That's all the Times could come up with to justify this pick. Cancel my subscription!
High school and college are great. If I were Dominic's uncle, I would probably try my best to get him to finish school and go to college. That's what caring relatives do. As a reader, I don't give a shit. The number of diplomas on someone's wall doesn't make their prose more or less persuasive, doesn't make bad ideas good, and doesn't make good ideas bad.
1. Republican Albro contributed money to anti-gay, anti-environment Rossi (Campaign Contributions)
2. Randy Pepple, Republican Rob McKenna's chief of staff, is a key leader of Albro's campaign (Facebook)
3. Albro has accepted money from big polluters, anti-gay Republicans and other interests contrary to the Strangers' readers' interests (WA PDC).
So I'm voting for Max Vekich who contributes to Democrats, works with actual people not corporations, and hasn't accepted money from anyone who (publicly at least) hates gays.
I hope the Stranger announces that the Albro inclusion was a typo.