Even though candidate Heidi Wills promised to support the monorail, City Council Member Heidi Wills proposed gutting the Elevated Transportation Company. Even though candidate Wills said she supported repealing City Attorney Mark Sidran's impound ordinance, Council Member Wills voted against a partial repeal. Now Wills is reneging on another campaign promise. According to a suit filed by local photographer Charles Robertson in King County District Court two weeks ago, Wills skipped out on a deal she made to pay Robertson $5,500 for campaign photos he took. Even if Wills thought the photos were a campaign contribution, the $5,500 price tag is well over the $400 limit allowed in city elections. Wills is on vacation (again?) and couldn't be reached for comment. ALLIE HOLLY-GOTTLIEB

Richard Conlin: Illiterate

Perhaps the city council should turn its attentions away from traffic tickets and focus on a considerably more pressing problem: illiteracy. Days after Judge Kathleen Learned ruled that the city had a "clear legal duty" to fund the construction of the monorail, Margaret Pageler attempted to ram an ordinance through the city council that read, "Initiative 41... did not legally obligate the City Council to fund the Monorail...." Pageler isn't the only city council member who can't read. In his monthly e-mail bulletin, "Making It Work," Richard Conlin wrote, "The voter initiative passed in 1997 required that the City seriously consider monorail...."

Conlin should have one of his four staff members read the full text of I-41 aloud to him. Learned ruled June 7 that I-41 did not require the city to "consider monorail," it required the city to build the monorail. "The initiative is not just a mandate to study or explore such a project," wrote Learned. "The directive from voters was to build it." Hello, contempt of court? DAN SAVAGE

Boeing Secret Agent

"People think just because we're Boeing, we're doing something secret," says Boeing spokesperson Anne Eisele. What is Eisele so defensive about? Mainly, a new executive at Boeing who used to work for the FBI. Two weeks ago, Boeing announced Lorrie A. Secrest as the new vice president of Boeing's Space and Communications group. Before Boeing, Secrest worked in public relations for Ameritech Corporation, the U.S. Information Agency, and the FBI, where she helped create the TV show America's Most Wanted. Eisele denied The Stranger an interview with Secrest, saying, "My job is to protect the Boeing company, not help make fun of it." PAT KEARNEY