News Dec 31, 2014 at 4:00 am

Subjects of The Stranger's 2014 News Coverage Regret The Stranger—and More!

They regret things we wrote (and didn’t write).

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Ksham, How is Uber bullying anyone? By giving them the choice of riding in a clean vehicle that doesn't reek and has a friendly driver? Oh the horror!
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@ By lobbying with lots of money, throwing they weight around, operating illegally, and then getting the city to completely capitulate?
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This is perfect, all around. I've been a bit let down by the dwindling quality and quantity of The Stranger's news reporting in recent years, but I respect the hell out of the work most of you are doing there - with long hours for a pittance of pay (hey, you've got $15 an hour to look forward to - chin up!).
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I regret paying Goldy all those years when all I had to do was say I was a "Socialist" and he would have written anything I wanted for free.


Wow.
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This is "Zamboni" John Scannell, the attorney who ran for Supreme Court that you keep referring to as "disbarred". Above, you asked what I was referring to when I said you were once more favorable to me. My memory is probably a little bit better than yours on this point... if fact maybe some of you were probably in grade school then. :) In April of 1997, I was representing Vivian McPeak in Seattle Municipal Court on an issue where he was cited for posting a leaflet on a telephone pole. We were having trouble getting anyone interested in the issue when the Stranger picked up on it and ran a cover story on the story. The Stranger invited its readers to commit an act of civil disobedience by posting its bright pink cover on as many telephone poles as possible. I remember seeing hundreds of those covers being illegally posted. The Stranger agreed with our argument that the issue was of constitutional magnitude and if the ordinance had been in effect in the '80s and '90s Seattle would have never become the grunge capitol of the world...Groups such as Nirvana and Soundgarten had to rely on such low cost advertising when they first started: in fact one of the members of Nirvana testified to that effect during the trial.
Because of the publicity surrounding the Stranger cover, the rest of the media picked up on it. Although the issue received mixed results in the higher courts with the Washington Supreme court eventually ruling against posting, the publicity did cause the Seattle City Council to throw out the ordinance so now it is once again legal to post leaflets in Seattle.

You rightfully point out that Stevens order that allegedly disbarred me has not been reversed, but the ninth circuit does not recognize the disbarment...apparently only the fifth time a federal court has done so in the history of the United States. At least one other state does not recognize Washington's claim of jurisdiction on this issue...Vermont when it refused to honor the disbarment of Robert Grundstein over the same issue. I am still practicing in the ninth circuit and Grundstein is allowed to sit for the bar exam in Vermont.
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Goldy really did deserve a better goodbye.
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I miss Goldy. Sniff.
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Tim Keck sure is one class act! But I think we know what's going on: he got legalized weed so why should The Stranger cover news anymore?
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I regret the loss of interesting slog posts.
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@2

And Bill Gates used his money to lobby for that gun law to pass. Was he also "bullying"? Or is money in politics okay...as long as it's your side doing the spending?

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/26/technolo…

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