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Imagine if they were prevented from holding meetings due to shouting Tea Partiers.

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These repeated "disruptions" would not have occurred if Ed Murray and majority of the City Council had not for years stubbornly pursued an obscenely wasteful project to build a Taj Mahal for Seattle's still violent, unreformed and non-publicly accountable police. People are fed up with this, as well as our city's refusal to block the even more expensive youth jail. Instead, we want our elected officials to pursue initiatives that people urgently need NOW including investing in our young people to make sure they don't get shunted into the school to prison pipeline, and building affordable housing. By the time HALA manages to squeeze out the mere 3,000 low income apartments over a 10 year period--these units constitute at most 5% of the 60,000 units Ed Murray wants built--tens of thousands more low income and POC will have been displaced from our city, and our neighborhoods will have become resegregated. Housing should be thought of as part of the commonwealth, not just as a commodity produced to further enrich some of the wealthiest people on the planet. When these politicians stop insulting us and working against our legitimate interests, we will be more respectful of them. #BLM #HousingNotBunkers
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@2 It was the City Council that called a halt to the bunker. And it wasn't for years - not with the current council, anyway. The current council only approved the $2.7 million for the renovations and plans in 2014-2015. They NEVER approved the inflated $146 million dollar bunker.
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@1:

Considering how much TP'ers HATE the gubammint and gubammint spending, what makes you think they wouldn't join in on this sort of disruption?
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@1) Straw man

It could be Drumpf supporters, Satanic Church members, or rowdy Girl Scouts, and it would still be wrong.
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@3 - Enough with facts! Such things don't fit the "group think".
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Er, this would be specifically after the "close all the prisons and abolish the police" protest, which came after the "block the bunker" protests, no?
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Is that the "Muslim Jesus" from Charles Mudede's post earlier this week?
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City Council meetings are a place for the public to voice their concerns. Everyone should be allowed to speak but not to speak so loudly that council members and speakers cannot be heard. There should be rules that if someone speaks loudly enough to stop others from being heard, they will be immediately removed from the meeting by security and not allowed to return.

I'm tired of screamers getting their way at Seattle City Council meetings. It's not the way things should work.

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