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so will this dept handle wage theft issues?
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@1: Yes, absolutely.
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How many new commissions and offices has Murray initiated so far? And if Civil Rights is underfunded, how will adding another department/personnel help that situation? Plus the personnel time staffing the new commission.

I'd really like to know how much more $$ Murray's administration is costing Seattle than McGinn's administration did. Or Nickels' did. Just because Seattle is growing in numbers doesn't mean Seattle's administration needs to keep adding new employees.
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So the government gets bigger at the expense of the taxpayers to fund a stupid law that the tax payers didn't even have a chance to vote on.
Seattle makes less and less sense every fucking day.

I can't wait until my lease runs out and I can get out of this liberal cesspool...and I better get out before they pass that relocation tax they've been planning (granted, I rent so it may not apply to me) It's like they knew everyone with a brain is leaving and want to stop them.

And I'm a low-wage worker but I'm not "at risk of being mistreated by an employee", I am at risk of being mistreated by a bullshit politician. What fucking office do I go to file a complaint against them?

Oh, and any extra money I get out of this higher minimum wage bullshit (before I lose my job over it, that is) is going to be donated to the state GOP...I guess they'll be an office to complain about people spending their own money in a way Seattle assholes don't like opening soon too.
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it really didnt take long for the city to consume that minimum wage hike. ed levy and new department, prop 1, parks, and now this. I cant wait to hear more urban poor/middle class complain about prices here.
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@5: See @4 for complaining.
@4: Nobody but nobody is trying to stop you from leaving, particularly since you don't have no brain.

You're a parody aren't you? You are putting us on. I get it now. I fell for it.
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@6
"you don't have no brain"
http://www.picturesnew.com/media/images/…

And its not just me that's leaving either: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…

They may be leaving for social reasons but now folks are leaving for economic reasons.

You can have Seattle. But when this city collapses, please stay the hell out of the South and mountain west.
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@7 - First off, Seattle isn't going to collapse. I know that's a shower nozzle masturbation fantasy for you, but it's not happening.

Secondly, nobody is going to say "oh c_s, we were so wrong and you were so right! If only we'd joined you in your hellhole of a paradise!"

And it's funny to me that you rail against "politicians" and government, yet you would spend your money donating to the state GOP. Libertarian lol.
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I see your liberal education didn't teach you how to read, did it? I'm talking about the planned relocation tax on businesses and home owners for Seattle Sawant is pushing. Granted, as I said, it wouldn't apply to me most likely because I'm not a home owner, but it's just the idea.

And I'll donate to the GOP because unlike the LP, they have a chance of winning. Anything to spite the asshole progressives.
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@8
And Seattle will either collapse or become far too expensive to live in for any but a few white rich people. Same thing happened in San Fran: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fa…
I'd rather live in a diverse conservative city like Houston or Charlotte or Nashville...and why is it every liberal paradise is white as can be? Portland, Seattle, San Fran etc? Why? Because liberals are all racist pricks, that's why.
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WTF is this relocation tax on homeowners and businesses?

I want to know more....
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All this law will do in restaurants is move them to a service charge where the house gets all the $, and then doles it out as it sees fit. This is a lose/lose for both tipped and kitchen employees, nice work city council. They should have raised the minimum wage with one uniform wage for that treats all businesses and workers, union & non-union, equally without waivers for special interests and unions. Instead we got a Frankenstein minimum wage that caters to political interests and unions more than helps workers. Explain to me why megolith corporations like HYATT & Marriott don't have to pay their unionized workers $15 & get a total comp waiver, but local non-union businesses that offer the same or better benefits do have to pay $15 & aren't eligible for the same total comp waiver? Do not these non-union workers who receive benefits also deserve to have their benefits protected? Oh that's right Sawant & Murray are sell outs to SEIU & wrote the law for them more than workers.
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@10: Since when is one-third non-European "white as can be"?

I also note that your list of white liberal paradises does not include the Great Eastern Liberal Satan that is New York City. Probably because 56% non-white puts the lie to your "all liberals are racist" claim.

If it weren't for lies, bullshit, and butthurt, you'd have nothing at all to say.
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@10: "Because liberals are all racist pricks, that's why."
This from the guy who insists that the minimum wage is inherently racist and if we'd just get rid of it, racial minorities would be able to work for less per hour than whites and reward non-racist employers with their cheaper labor. You think that letting brownish people work for less than white people is the right idea, and guaranteeing a minimum wage and prohibiting employment discrimination de jure is the racist alternative. You am make perfect sense!
Also, Chicago. Stalwartly Democratic, and 68% non-white (counting Hispanics as non-white).

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