FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS TO ANARCHISTS They regret things we wrote (and didn’t write).
  • FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS TO ANARCHISTS They regret things we wrote (and didn’t write).


BREAKING: The Stranger's news department made more enemies in 2014. (And some new frenemies, too!) So, per tradition, we've decided to share in the continued bounty of venom directed our way. Because why be greedy? Behold this year's (necessarily abridged and annotated) collection of what the people we wrote about regret about us, our life choices, and life itself.


This year, Elizabeth Campbell led a campaign that had Seattle voting—again—on the idea of expanding the monorail. Close readers may recall the Stranger Election Control Board championing an expanded monorail in the past, but this year's vote was only about funding a monorail study committee. And that publicly financed study committee would have been led by—wait for it—Elizabeth Campbell. When Campbell failed to get her voters' pamphlet statement in on time, leaving a blank spot in the public's voters' guide, and then failed to show up as promised to a (re)scheduled endorsement interview with the SECB, we lost all patience with her and endorsed a "No" vote. Says Campbell:


The regret is that the Century Transportation Authority campaign even entertained the invite from The Stranger to discuss the monorail ballot measure. Despite my better judgment that no good is likely to come from a rendezvous with its pulp writers, I relented under duress to the entreaties of others on the campaign team and authorized them to meet with The Stranger's Eli Sanders. Campaign bumbles goofed up the meeting, and true to form, the snark and arrogance of The Stranger's Sanders reared its ugly head with Sanders raining opprobrium down on my head over the matter—including an online survey campaign against me. But frankly, the predictable tactics and response by Sanders are beside the point. More importantly, I learned lessons—to exercise tighter control over campaign partners and strategy, to damn well be sure to get any voters' pamphlet statement in on time, and to never have anything to do with The Stranger!…


KEEP READING>>