I hope someday to do something worth getting yelled at by a sitting mayor. McGinn once yelled at me, but that was for drinking the last beer, and it was way before he was mayor.
Ed Murray is a petulant man-baby. That he's the mayor of my city is an embarrassment. Wasn't one of his big complaints about Mike McGinn that McGinn didn't play well with others? Look in the mirror, Ed, if you can stand the sight of yourself.
The most disturbing part of this is that the mayor—the mayor!—of Seattle takes time from his day to read the Stranger and then actually CALLS the Stranger to complain. Grow a thicker skin, buck the fuck up, and get back to work you big fucking baby. This isn't some bumfuck backwater where there's nothing to do all day. Jesus christ what a baby.
@7: An intern likely just gave him a rundown of the article. Why he called, I have no answer for. Either his PR team is full of morons, or he moronically did not listen to them.
I think politicians are just in full time re-election mode, so anything they see as hurting their chances next time needs to be addressed. Why they think the best way to do it is to personally call and whine, I have no idea. It is not like if the mayor's office released a statement The Stranger would not print/upload it.
I haven't liked our mayor for a long time. But until now, I didn't think he was stupid. The commenter who said "mansplaining" certainly got it right. Or you could just call it condescending.
You could have said, hey, you know what would help women get pay equity in this town? Affordable childcare. It's called the Motherhood Pay Penalty. Men's salaries go up when they have kids but women with children make less. They pass up (or are passed up for) jobs with more hours/responsibility because they can't find affordable, reliable childcare care. It costs $17,000/year to put an child in diapers in childcare in Seattle -- that's outrageous. Yet I see that Murray is campaigning hard and raising hundreds of thousands from conservatives and corporations to defeat a citizen initiative (Prop 1A) that would get the ball rolling on lowering our astronomical childcare costs in Seattle. It would also raise wages for the thousands of women who take care of our kids. That might be a good way to help close the gender pay gap, eh? Here's a good NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/upshot…
I seem to recall one of the reasons we were supposed to want McGinn out and Murray in was the former's lack of professionalism and inability to play nicely with others. Huh.
"If you talk to Susan Coskey, who I replaced a white man with, if you talk to Patty Lally, who I replaced a white woman with,"
This is why people have issues with social justice policies, the answer is to just quota fire white men and hire women and people of color ( always african american, not other races, cause white guilt )? Good thing we hire the best people for the job, as long as they aren't white and own a vagina. wow.
Super tone deaf, and ripe for criticism, and this was one of his best points.... amazing.
@ 21, sorry, did criticizing the mayor's lack of professionalism (a legitimate indicator that he might not be a good mayor) distract you from your revenge porn browsing?
Not exactly solid journalism here. The theme is consistent with The Stranger's inability to cope with this mayor winning the election over their pick. This makes them a little untrustworthy in a Foxish kind of way.
Here's what I don't get: most city employees are in unions, and work jobs where everyone in that classification is paid the same amount of money. It's all a matter of public record.
The highest paid jobs, outside of directors and managers, are the skilled trades, as well as IT, Engineering, and Law Enforcement. So isn't the real solution getting more women into those fields? .
Places that underpay & don't hire women in upper tech exec positions - Seattle, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Facebook, Google, the list goes on and on and on.
Baby Ed really shit his diaper on this one. Better get his political man squad busy on taking Anna out the way they are trying to with Brazel, the black woman he fired after he told her the wrong dead guy to issue a press release on. Oh, and he replaced Roz with white people. His entire comms team is white.
@30, Yes, we need to force more women into firefighting and electrical lineperson jobs. I suggest we start by having the city issue a moratoreum on hiring women to fill positions that pay below the median salary of city workers. Should work wonders.
Aww, poor wittle @37 is still sore at Anna, that horrible hussy who ate at his wittle restaurant then wrote that he should pay his workers a decent wage.
Oh Chef, don't be such a drip. I can't speak for the Fire Department, but there's much more to skilled electrical labor than being a lineworker (although there are female mineworkers, and have been since the 1970's).
Metering electricians, system control dispatchers, system operators, regular electricians, cable splicers - you name it. Some jobs, such as metering electricians, are well suited for working mothers, since the meter shop is open regular business hours only - no evening or swing shift.
You should really leave to go to work for the SEIU funded Working Washington (pissed about the PreK thing), before the election instead of after, so we can have some somewhat unbiased reporting before then.
Any one that uses victims of violence as pawns in a political campaign is a jack ash.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/using…
You might want to question Murray on the size of his proposed administrative prek staff, which is 42 individuals to oversee a program of 2000 students. If he tells you the number is not 42...he isn't being truthful.
I voted against Mayor McFriendly because I thought Hizzoner Mike McGinn was awesome. Now I can't wait to vote against Murray because he's even worse than the mope I took him for the last go around.
I was with Anna on this right up to her using a Seattle Times editorial opinion as supporting one of her points. Sorry, that's an instant exit from my eyes picking up what you're putting down.
I hope it all works out for your hurt feelings, Anna and Ed.
Was this an on-the-record convo? If it wasn't are you really going to accuse this guy of unprofessionalism then immediately turn around and write an article about an-off-the record conversation? Seems a bit tattletale-ish.
Clearly, in general, city employees are grossl overpaid, I believe the city should lower all males pay to that of females and leave it at that. The excess money can be returned to the taxpayers.
The office of civil rights is a joke when it comes to gender equity... they once investigated a pay equity case they investigated a pay equity case using the harder to prove title 7 statute rather than the pay equity act that puts the burden of proof on the employer. The new director doesn't appear to be any better than 5th woman he replaced.
Priceless.
Ed Murray is a petulant man-baby. That he's the mayor of my city is an embarrassment. Wasn't one of his big complaints about Mike McGinn that McGinn didn't play well with others? Look in the mirror, Ed, if you can stand the sight of yourself.
For example, on July 23, Goldy wrote that he would not vote for me because I am “thin-skinned.”
I think politicians are just in full time re-election mode, so anything they see as hurting their chances next time needs to be addressed. Why they think the best way to do it is to personally call and whine, I have no idea. It is not like if the mayor's office released a statement The Stranger would not print/upload it.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic…
This is why people have issues with social justice policies, the answer is to just quota fire white men and hire women and people of color ( always african american, not other races, cause white guilt )? Good thing we hire the best people for the job, as long as they aren't white and own a vagina. wow.
Super tone deaf, and ripe for criticism, and this was one of his best points.... amazing.
A grown man said "fuck"? Gee whiz.
What a hack."The soleless candidate endorsed by the Stranger" is more like it. I hope the Stranger's proud of themselves.
Kind of like your assumption that those employees are under qualified and only hired due to quotas because they are women and/or non-white.
Both are great examples of white Seattle's casual racism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWC8UFI1…
The highest paid jobs, outside of directors and managers, are the skilled trades, as well as IT, Engineering, and Law Enforcement. So isn't the real solution getting more women into those fields? .
Results.
Not words.
Metering electricians, system control dispatchers, system operators, regular electricians, cable splicers - you name it. Some jobs, such as metering electricians, are well suited for working mothers, since the meter shop is open regular business hours only - no evening or swing shift.
"My generation understands". Which generation is he talking bout?
Get off my lawn!!!
What a tool.
What fucking sexism.
Anna,
I'm glad that you aren't intimidated by Murray; he is a jack ash. I hope you have the courage to write about the funders behind 1B.
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com…
Any one that uses victims of violence as pawns in a political campaign is a jack ash.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/using…
You might want to question Murray on the size of his proposed administrative prek staff, which is 42 individuals to oversee a program of 2000 students. If he tells you the number is not 42...he isn't being truthful.
I hope it all works out for your hurt feelings, Anna and Ed.
If a politician calls a reporter out of the blue, the politician shouldn't be surprised when that reporter turns around and, you know, reports.
This isn't news, it's gossip.