News Nov 7, 2022 at 9:00 am

Recent Protests at City Hall Featured Ghost Cops, Dancing, and Bloody Brooms

On Halloween, a bunch of lefties dressed as "ghost cops" and haunted City Hall. HK

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Sweeping begets opportunities for change and better decisions, healing of the environment, alleviates crime, and pays tribute to our humanity and compassion.

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“The organizers hung signs displaying some of the names of 191 unhoused people who have died during the Harrell administration. Mutual aid workers from Stop the Sweeps… used brooms to brush red paint over the names to illustrate that sweeps kill.”

How, exactly, do “sweeps kill”? What was the connection between Mayor Harrell and these deaths? Persons have died in un-swept encampments; were those deaths recorded as “no sweeps killed”?

How many human beings have died in Seattle’s unswept encampments? Does anyone from Solidarity Budget know or care?

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@5: No need for your proposed ordinance. Seattle already has laws against trespassing on public property, but previous City Attorney Pete Holmes refused to prosecute. Between that change in office, and Mayor Harrell’s sweeping policy change, Seattle’s citizens should soon be able to enjoy all of their parks and other public spaces.

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"Seattle left"? Well I'm a lefty liberal and I certainly don't want the sweeps to stop. Thank god Pete Holmes is gone. Sweep sweep sweep. As @4 said, blaming these deaths on sweeps and Harrell is misleading and progandizing their deaths. For shame. Those encampments themselves are hazardous to the residents health and the publics.

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@8: No sane person knows, but here’s a hint:

“And if backing Nikkita Oliver was a dumb move, then we'll probably make that dumb move again, and again, and again until they win…”

(https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/11/03/62528438/five-takeaways-from-the-2021-seattle-elections)

Sadly, that promised series of risibly self-inflicted own-goals may now never happen, not because the Stranger learned anything from crushing citywide defeats, but because after her own second citywide defeat, Oliver invoked the almighty Take My Ball And Go Home (Or, At Least, To Detroit) rule.

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On Wednesday AM I want all of the "defund" idiots to publicly apologize for their role in the likely loss of the House of Representatives. After which they can all fuck off.

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instead of ghost cops they should have went with ghost council members since most of them still don't bother to come to city hall anymore.

Solidarity budget is comedy gold Jerry!

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"Clowns demand giant shoes, tiny cars."

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City Hall looks empty. I know urbanists are all about the “neighborhood renaissance” but I think de-platforming downtown like this is a blow to efforts to be visable to community, by activists such as these, and others.

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What's next a pantomime! God what a freak show.

Followed by this lame Sloggy Stranger Review which somehow equates the massive failure of the acts perpetrated on this city by the seated Silly Counsel ...... on the incoming Mayor. Here's a tip... "own your mistakes!"...which none of the city counsel members have done... let alone apologize for the hot mess they have made of this city.

Its high time to sweep away the fog of lies and and misdirection of the far left and restore order to this once great city. Drive the current batch of far left, liberal clowns out of the city counsel and lets get some center party democrats who represent the people and common sense in the next elections.

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@15: “Now The Stranger is hardly a scientific sample of the community.”

The decline in supportive commenters appears to be mostly about the Stranger’s waning influence, recognition by the now-departed commenters that the party’s over for “progressives,” and that pragmatic liberals still care enough about Seattle to come here and oppose the Stranger’s contrafactual messaging.

“We in Washington need a non-crazy GOP gubernatorial candidate who does not kiss Trump's ass and is a moderate on social issues like abortion. […] One can dream we see another Dixie or Evans running our state.”

Thirty years ago tonight, the last “moderate on social issues” candidate the GOP ever submitted for WA gubernatorial office lost — to Mike Lowry, who was, back then, considered a crazy lefty-liberal. Since then, the local GOP has nominated a Christian-Right fruitcake, a radio talk-show host, a real-estate swindler, the same real-estate swindler again, and then some fools I cannot even be bothered to remember, en route to the high-school dropout who lost last time.

Already, by the time that long-ago night came around, Dixie Lee Ray had been out of office for a decade, and Dan Evans was a well-established attorney in downtown Seattle. I strongly suggest you not waste your time pining for the once-sane past of the WA GOP — or of the Stranger.


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