"Poorly written," huh?

what a uniquely Seattle response!

Probably she evaded the question because answering it would oblige her to advocate a specific program. Its a lot less risky to stick to vague generalities.

I like when people write things like this and think "this is good enough"

NO YOUR DUMB!!!

Yeah Dan, you never ever believe she's is not the person to help the local communities grow and prosper. You foreva-neva believe it!

Venomous Uninformed Agenda would be a great band name.

"Exactly whatever" is so utterly original that it ought to be patented. That missive was PURE GOLD.

So's this thread.

Clear good sense that letter did not make, not hardly. Don Ruffin grammar he should help make get better so understandable, he can be and then all will be well when he is understood so his words make sense, for his readers like Dan and then publish.

Is this the Don Ruffin listed on linkedin as a "Bus Dev Mgr"? Dude needs to improve his communication skills. Just like Banks.

I'll bet Don Ruffin wrote a regular old letter to the editor first with coherent if unremarkable points in it, then he decided to apply the Burroughs/Gysin cut-up method to it to reveal latent meanings in his text. It's a little-appreciated fact that Sarah Palin also employed the technique extensively in her spoken word performances.

In his defense, takes one to know one???

I am certainly not in lock step with Dan Savage.... However I did get an email from Pamela Banks that really irritated me, and confirmed me in the Sawant camp.The email was titled "This Is Why I Am Running", and included an email she got from a supporter. The included letter was full of faint praise for Sawant, but accused her of running for a "neighborhood seat" with "citywide issues". The letter said that only Pamela could speak for the people of the district, and that included the apparently fairly affluent letter writer.

I was left with the impression that the letter writer was upset that if Sawant won, she would not speak for the affluent residents of the 3rd district. Affluence will have no voice in city government godamnit! So yeah.... I went ahead and voted for Sawant, and will cry a silent tear for the poor disenfranchised wealthy of the 3rd District.

The rage filled homophobic ones are way funnier.

Ouch. Yeah just cause you write for some small paper, parts of which are read around the world, yeah, you got no right Dan to utter no opinions. Got that?

What did you expect? You legalize weed, you get stoner syntax.

Thank goodness your avatar alerted me to your sarcasm, Kayaker!

Poor Dan, now The Stranger's Editorial Director, whoever that is, is unlikely to ever give him such a platform again. if only he hadn't wasted the opportunity on such a poorly-written post, he might have had a shot at launching a multi-decade career as a syndicated media personality with national and even international recognition! Who knows - he might even have been able to secure some book deals or launch a paid podcast or a Tv/web series, but now he's doomed to toil in obscurity for the rest of his life.