www.dougsvotersguide.com got this one right (Balducci too).

Oh Lisa, Lisa! You don’t waste an opportunity to diss those that were not into your shenanigans. Let’s get this straight: you did not win two elections. First time you ran unopposed and second time your opponent Christina Whatever Her Name was, never campaigned.
Then you quit before your change of address became a scandal. Yes, family structures change but couldn’t your “friend”, a Chair of a certain dems district tell running for a position in a neighborhood you no longer resided in was a fraud? Did you learn anything from your dear friend Song? Or maybe you learned a whole lot - left pretending to be offended by the shadow of doubt.
Sarah Clark is no school board material and she didn’t pass The Stranger’s smell test. Too bad she is not married to a partial owner of the media conglomerate that owns this publication right? Say hello to your friend that is.

@2, yeah that counts as “winning” two elections. She received the most votes of any candidate even if she was the only candidate.

And your comment embodies the mean girl ethos that is the SPS parent/activist/stakeholder ecosystem, you went personal instead of taking down her pro-Clark argument on its merits. Turns out that opposing schools closures was a more electable platform than what the Rankin crowd was selling. The Stranger endorsed your candidate, chill.

Huh. So I am an active SPS Parent Advocate whose spent lots of time in the past few years fighting against dumb decisions using direct data. (You can see some of my analyses on medium... starting article is "The 31% No One Talks About"). The thing "District Watcher" just did is a form of group hazing that keeps showing up in multiple forums whenever anyone says something about Rankin -- and to a lesser extent Hampson, Sarju, and Briggs. The same attacks are brought up often in the same middle-school rumor tone. (I myself got told in the past year that I "controlled the media" which is very odd application of an anti-semitic trope since I'm Chinese-american. shrug).

What do I mean by middle-school tone? It's easily seeable if you swap out the nouns of of District Watcher's comment with things from Twilight. See the following:

Oh Bella, Bella! You don’t waste an opportunity to diss those that were not into your shenanigans. Let’s get this straight: you did not win two elections. First time you ran unopposed and second time your opponent Victoria Whatever Her Name was, never campaigned.

Then you quit before your change of address became a scandal. Yes, family structures change but couldn’t your “friend”, a Chair of a certain Forks Cheer Club tell running for a position in a neighborhood you no longer resided in was a fraud? Did you learn anything from your dear friend Alice? Or maybe you learned a whole lot - left pretending to be offended by the shadow of doubt.

Rosalie Hale is no school board material and she didn’t pass The Spartan Shield’s smell test. Too bad she is not dating co-editor of the media conglomerate that owns this publication right? Say hello to your friend that is.

Like...this actually reads as a bad twilight fanfic. And it happens a lot.

I point this out for those who do NOT pay a lot of attention to the district. If you ask why, in a city with so many folks who are exceptional at finances, data analysis, running organizations, education, etc., no one seems to step in to help...well for me, this type of toxicity is the main reason.

Much of this has occured in closed FB Groups (eg Future of Seattle Public Schools) and is sprinkled around posts where some advocates share info. It showed up on the Seattle Times comments during the Closure mess. In the last few weeks, its leaking out into reddit, and now here.

Folks seem to go as far as to create burner troll accounts (created recently, comes in to sealion and concern trolling, and then get banned... I've talked with the mods and it is a pattern). You notice them cause they use the same phrases.

It feels like a handful of active trolls that somehow end up in "SPS advocacy" and make it super toxic.

It's time we just start meta-pointing it out and get it to stop. It's hurting our city.

"Its irreverence, its wit"

Needlessly writing "fuck" over and over isn't irreverence or wit, and it actually lessens the impact of a good "fuck".

"Progressive" is just a synonym for "stupid and naive" at this point.

@6 You're literally in a cult.

@7 - you're literally stupid and naive

@8 wrote this weird thought experiment comment here this morning:

“If Katie Wilson wins, she's going to go even more bald. Girmay is already bald. If you photoshopped them together and made the result even whiter than Katie Wilson already is, you'd have Ron Davis' Nosferatu lookin ass.”

Yeah, totally normal, non-cult behavior lol. Stupid and naive sounds preferable.

@9 fuck em if they can't take a joke

unbalanced racist pos
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