Features Jan 30, 2019 at 4:00 am

What we know about the mayor and the art scholar.

Jenny Durkan and Dana Garvey have a lot of money and tremendous influence. Collage art by Jessica Stein; Photos sourced from Getty Images

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@ mistra, suck a lot of rich dick lately?

Yes, FUCK THE WEALTHY. They are rich BECAUSE THE REST OF US ARE SO FUCKING POOR. Wealthy people have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT INTERESTS than the rest of us. That's why you ALWAYS see Seattle's "liberal" (meaning pro-capitalist) City Council backtrack on taxing wealthy corporations while taxes on working people (like the soda tax) are pushed with no opposition.

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Having a rich lesbian mayor in Seattle has made Seattle MORE DANGEROUS and LESS AFFORDABLE for working class lesbians. Not all lesbians have the same interests. CLASS MATTERS, IDENTITY NOT SO MUCH.

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Not only is Durkan an ineffectual Mayor who seems to drop the ball on numerous decisions (from hiring high-level personnel like a new police chief and interim HR manager to putting a prolonged pause on the CCC only to green-light the project), but she clearly has no respect for the spirit and intent of our disclosure laws.

Sure, Durkan and Garvey are neither married nor registered domestic partners, and for all we know they may keep their personal finances completely separated. But the point is we don't know - and we should.

It's laughable to think that their long-term on-going relationship doesn't have the same potential to influence the Mayor's decisions as if they were a traditional married couple, and the fact that Durkan insists abusing the letter of the law to shiled Garvey from financial disclosure only makes her seem that much more like someone with something to hide.

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Not buying this horse shit.
Durkan's rhetoric and "policies" always cozy up to the properly moneyed interests in Seattle, exactly like every other politician who tries to wave some kind 'progressive' credentials in the air.

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Being rich is dangerous. Being LGBT is dangerous. Her partner wanting to keep a low profile is understandle. There are reasons to criticize Durkan on public policy without scrutinizing her private life.

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@7: The info in this article is public knowledge and is no different than a story on any other political family. Durkan and her partner are not Faberge Eggs, and should be able to withstand the public glare with grace and in turn be an inspiration to other LGBT couples.

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This is hilarious. The Stranger’s preferred candidate, Cary Moon, is married to a principal engineer at a major civil engineering firm, one which bids for city contracts. A Mayor Moon would either have had to recuse herself from many decisions concerning Seattle’s infrastructure, or violate the very laws and codes The Stranger mentions here.

Given that candidate Moon openly attempted to bribe heads of city departments into voting for her, by promising to retain them if she was elected, and this did not bother The Stranger in the least, I’m guessing there’s more than an element of grudge behind this non-story.

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Jenny is pretty clever,
keeping a mistress so she avoids disclosure requirements....
(or is she the kept one?)
What a gushing bucket of vomit this post is.
Were jenny not a Leftist homosexual woman the leftist media would be screaming for disclosure.
Instead it quietly mews about the "inspiring story" we are missing out on.

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"The Power Couple running Seattle?" I missed the part in the story where you proved that point, or much of anything else. A weak effort.

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@13

Durkan is not a leftist. You don't seem to know what that word means.

Are the comments here always full of such garbage? I feel like I'm on a men's rights Youtube channel.

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“Nevertheless, she is going against the precedent set by our last two mayors.”

Why should she not behave like a couple of one-term wonders?

“...Mike McGinn, was so transparent with the media and the public that he made not only his wife but also his children available to reporters by inviting the staff of The Stranger to his house for long, poorly lit barbecues in his North Seattle backyard.”

McGinn was an accidental mayor who never got over himself. Hence his easy defeat. Why doesn’t Mayor Durkan follow suit?!?

“Mayor Ed Murray's husband, who was also a city employee, would frequently speak to news outlets and be photographed for stories.”

His reward for this was watching those same news outlets ruin his husband’s career, by their fecklessly repeating unverified rumors, told by felonious liars, and pushed by his husband’s most bitter political enemies. Why doesn’t Garvey want this for her partner?!?

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The Stranger needs to purge the commentariat of its right wing trolls. Y'all're a bunch of bad faith finger-wagging chodes who believe stupid ass shit about economics. Pro tip: if you come from a moneyed family, you're probably gonna stay rich/wealthy your whole life, such is the nature of dynastic wealth. Billionaires became billionaires often because they came from privileged beginnings and had countless more advantages throughout their youth than most people get in their whole lives, not because they're mega geniuses who provided some magical service. Horatio Alger is a myth. Grow the fuck up.

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Durkan is a major of the rich, for the rich, by the rich. Corporate fucks love her, and this town has a lot of corpos. Progressives don't want to vote against her because she's a lesbian, which all but assures The Left will line up and pull the lever in order to desperately prove that they're "woke" and that they "value diversity". Whatever.

But once again they fail to see that the rich candidate won't o anything but help other rich people, and in fact has no plans to enact progressive policies and take progressive action towards addressing and remediation of the dire economic and social disparities that face the less fortunate folks of this city. She's had to be aggressively badgered into doing basically ANYTHING, let alone producing solutions to extant problems that weren't already in the process of being addressed in the previous administration. She's a damn phony, and her turn as mayor is just a resume padder for future jobs, in addition to the lifetime pension that comes with the position.

I'd say that Seattle deserves better than Durkan, but election and election proves that we in fact do NOT deserve better. It's a goddamn shame.


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