Features Oct 22, 2009 at 4:00 am

He's the Culture Candidate

McGinn portrait by Nat Damm, from a photo by Kyle Johnson. The third in a series by Seattle artists.

Comments

1
What no halo? McGinn looks like he is floating in a culture of the clinical variety.

But seriously Mike is no Nick Licata, who really does have a broad cultural perspective. I really don't get this Stranger hallucinogenic fixation with McGinn, you need to get off that shit or you'll all be working for Real Change News soon, kids.
2
More unreported in-kind from the stranger.
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My sense it that McGinn really wants to empower people to help make our city the place we want it to be. And, he gets his ideas from having talked to so many folks over the years.

Joe, on the other hand, is an empty vessel waiting to be filled by his advisors and donors.
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Mike McGinn seems to have LOTS of ideas. Lots and lots of ideas. He has a white paper for every damn issue out there. 9 times out of 10, his response to a question is "If you go to my website..." McGinn is a community activist, one of those idealistic dreamers who talks and talks and talks (and listens and listens and listens) but whose only real accomplishment is putting in a few sidewalks in his own neighborhood. (Great Cities accomplished what now?) He is the apotheosis of "Seattle process" and I have no doubt that, were he elected Mayor, he would choke our city in ideas and useless town halls.

Seattle is a city full of really smart people with many great ideas. Our Mayor's job is not to be first among those but rather to convene groups of experts and then get things done. Mallahan gets things done.

Oh, and The Stranger? All I hear when you talk politics is "Blah blah blah oh oh oh McGinn... mmm...ohhh yeaaaaah... baby, you like it like that, don't you.. just like that..."
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McGinn's goin down faster than a stranger reporter
6
LOL. It's like the pro-Mallahan commenters haven't been watching the televised debates ...
7
Culture constituency! Wadda-wadda-woot-woot-woot!
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I honestly think that the Stranger's role of promoting McGinn probably has done more harm than good to his campaign. Nothing worse than being told WHO you should vote for and if you don't your wrong. That pretentiousness makes a person take a serious look to the other side. Thatโ€™s what I did, and I voted for Mallahan so suck it Stranger.
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I sense something peculiar about a lot of Seattle's public art. Hammering Man is a total insult to Labor. "Labor is 2-dimensional and featureless flat black, endlessly embroiled in strenuous monotonous toil in the midst of the leisure class, with a sense of art no more refined than a whilygig." Hammering Man should be moved to Gas Works Park where the context would be more fitting.

"Death in a Flying Ford" hanging in the SAM foree is likewise insulting.

There's a modern stainless steel sculpture dancer at the top of a grand staircase on 1st Ave, I forget the cross-street. When descending or after climbing those stairs, who thinks about dancing? The context of the setting is illogical.

Sculpture Park pieces offend me. "Giant Machine Turd in the(real tree)Grove", "Shiny Metal(fake)Tree", "Medieval Torture Device", "Traffic Cone" Wheee!! "Eagle" should be called "Crane", "Wave" should be called "Plow" Don't touch its precious rust! Etc etc.

It's just more evidence that strengthens my suspicion that class division between Seattle's public and establishment is institutionalized.

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Mallahan bailing out of events is a glimpse into how he will manage the city:

Give him money and he may be available to hear your concerns between meetings with "The insiders, if you will".

He is an grade A ass. The first sign of trouble and Mallahan will give nothing but excuses.
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I'm so glad my family left Seattle! McGinn is a moron. How are you all enjoying your mandated two weeks of sick leave? Do you really think your employers aren't going to take it out of your hide someplace else? Are you behind the mayor stopping (lawful) coal train traffic through Seattle? Traded in your cars for bicycles yet? I regularly remind my uber-liberal 80 year old Seattle-based parents that the mayor says they should leave their car at home and ride their bicycles instead. Go ahead, elect him again Seattle, you deserve it!

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