This is piss poor comment because it's just splitting hairs, making a petty distinction.
Goldie, you did "have time to write about this", you just wrote this post.
C'mon man, I don't have time to write and tell you about your blatant inaccuracies. I simply don't have time to write and tell you this.

That had to be a tough one.

I'm sure this doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Murray has always been a friend to labor, where McGinn has only recently (due to the election) been a friend.

Or maybe its something simple, like McGinn being a clueless jackass and has no business in running a city. His on the job experience isnt enough to impress those with enough influence to issue an endorsement.

@2: Indeed it is, endorse a candidate who has endorsed an avowed socialist for city council and who used a dog as the ring bearer in his wedding ceremony or endorse a candidate who has bike-ized our city streets into everlasting slowness.

By the time this is over, McGinn's only supporters will be The Stranger's staff and the bums downtown. I almost feel sorry for the piece of shit. Almost.

"In the event that Murray loses."

Goldstein, have you ever thought of doing stand-up?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Is the election over yet? Let me know which fat white guy won, I am going back to sleep.

Sorry, #8, but the fat half-black, half-Japanese dude lost. But you can vote for the Chinese guy for City Council who The Stranger dares not name because they like the Irish best of all.

I think that greater Seattle endorsed Ed Murray by voting for him more than McGinn, but I'm too busy to spend much time thinking about politics so I'll just go with the guy that more people voted for already come the general election.

It seems that if either of these candidates win someone will be in the Mayor's chair worth having some chits into. You think it's just better to endorse Murray because it's possible you'd have to work with him at the state level while McGinn is ticked off at the Mayoral level ?

This has to be a double humiliation for the incumbent asshole, because SEIU has strony New York ties. Either he pissed off someone back home, or they sent someone out here to sourt around, and they figured out that Mikey's a political dead man walking. I wonder if the Mickster realized that the unions are the ultimate pragmatists. Hope he's got a fallback plan, 'cause I'll be surprised if the Sierra Club will take him back.

Nice Spin Goldy, but the timing of this had nothing to do with a "tough decision" for Rolf and SEIU (the largest and most progressive union in the State), and everything to do with campaign strategy. It's a massive blow to McGinn as Rolf and SEIU work hard for the candidates they endorse and they rarely lose. Hard for McGinn to argue Murray is the conservative candidate when Murray has a better relationship with labor built over almost two decades, and evidenced by more and larger unions endorsing him, and McGinn has pro labor policies for about 6 months.

I don't have time to write about this because

it's not an endorsement for McGinn.

Had this been McGinn winning the endorsement I'm sure Goldy would be gushing how it would have done irreversible damage to the Murray campaign.

Though it will be fun to watch Goldy nail himself to the cross of self-perpetrated victimization when Murray trounces McGinn in November.

The spin will be that Mikey was too bold for such a retrograde town. They'll completely gloss over the fact that he lost because he became "Mayor McSchwinn," and that Seattle's voters are sick of the bicyclists and their antics.