One day, we'll find out if our former mayor committed a felony. One day. Lester Black

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“
city utilities official Idris Beauregard
each had factory resets performed sometime from Oct. 8, 2020 to Nov. 3, 2020."

So, you guys have now moved into the full-out conspiracy theory phase of your never-ending witch hunt, eh? Obviously, having city utilities official Idris Beauregard request a factory reset on her city-provided cell phone proves the fix was in, because whisky monkey banana telephone shut up, that’s why.

We can only hope our very own divine Mrs. Catalina Vel-DuRay can educate us on the city utilities angle of this deepening “scandal.”

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"The new map would cater to the wealthy homeowners in Magnolia and dilute the power of renters in Fremont."

I keep seeing this in the Stranger, and don't understand where it is coming from. Based on 2010 census data* District 7 (Magnolia) is 63.6% renter occupied, while District 6 (Fremont) is only 45.8% renter occupied.

*https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/OPCD/Demographics/AboutSeattle/Housing%20Characteristics%20CD.pdf

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Guys we need to move past Durkan and other city leaders committing felonies. Sawant used the copy machine after hours, so checkmate.

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@3: Interesting you mention CM Sawant, who has spent her entire time in office using private IT to conduct city business — and not responding to public-records requests for any of it.

But Durkan!! 191 text messages!!

Checkmate.

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Hallelujah - When Brent sees the light, it really is time to move on.

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Just like every other empathy-free, sociopath Republican, DeSantis only understands something when it personally happens to him or someone he cares about. But even those realizations are fleeting. Time and again, after these people get whatever help they need, they go right back to their previous “personal responsibility” bullshit. I guarantee that immediately after he greedily receives federal benefits to try and fix his stupid state, he’ll go right back to saying other states shouldn’t get those same benefits because America and Teh Liberals and DerDerDer.

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@2 that what I wonder as well. Couldn't you essentially make some form of this argument in every district? Heck Sawant goes out of her way to brag how she doesn't represent homeowners or business owners in her district and we all know The Stranger will be totally on board with that disenfranchisement.

"The only way we can unlock that amount of money, however, is if the State Legislature finally decides to appropriately tax the uber-wealthy who call King County home, or to give the county the authority to do so itself."

Yes, if only we had an income tax we could solve all of our problems like our friends in CA, NY, IL, NJ. It's sunshine and rainbows there. It's coming though, the high earners tax will probably make its way to the SC sometime in 2023 and if they rule the way the progressives want we'll all be paying an extra 10% in 2024.

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@9 yeah, WA state is doing quite well.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-state-projects-tax-revenues-to-rise-by-2-6-billion-through-2023-as-economy-recovers-from-covid-19/

I won't be looking for my check in the mail though, they are going to spend that like drunken sailors.

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I remember when employment want ads posted salaries along with the position back before the 70s. Then for some reason, companies figured out they were screwing themselves of the chance to low-ball applicants who weren’t very aggressive in their salary demands (a lot of women at the time and a lot of men desperate for work). So, “salary negotiable” started appearing in those ads. Ultimately even that disappeared and “salary commensurate with experience” appeared. The newly hired were confronted with a number that was within a pre-set salary range. Managers would almost always offer the bottom number plus a few cents and wait to see what happened. In that setting, some new people, if they could walk that walk and talk that talk, were hired in at a higher salary than someone who had worked at the company for years. That’s why we were always told not to discuss salaries with other employees. You're liable to find out things that'll piss you off and that's bad for morale.

But that’s not all. I was a clinical laboratory technologist in Seattle during the 80s and 90s (when they no longer posted salaries but would ask you for your acceptable range – the latter no longer legal). There was an organization called LASSA (Laboratory Association of Seattle and (its) Surrounding Area). Its members were Seattle area lab managers. One of their functions was to get together and offer, if asked, backdoor references to one another on prospective employees (highly actionable if provable). Also, they’d discuss salaries – making sure that no one hospital or medical facility offered more than a few pennies more than others to lure away staff. In other words, if you were unhappy at one place, you’d never be able to find another tech position in the area that would offer you much more money. If that isn’t a cartel, would someone please explain what a cartel is?

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@7 Since businesses and wealthy* land owners can more easily buy politician, I support Sawant precisely because she ignores the elites who expect to be calling the shots.

*In Seattle, every homeowner with equity in a remotely desirable neighborhood is wealthy.

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It's so weird to read the radically bouncing contradictory narratives of the Slog Trolls.

First Insee was the worst governor ever (despite pulling Washington through the pandemic and being a model state on how to handle it).

Now Insee is the evil tyrant of his own success! He is not only expected by the trolls to share his success with them (As if they deserve it) but do so in some perfect way. And no matter what they will then inevitably screech about him giving it to the undeserving. Which is them.

And ironically wouldn't have this surplus to bitch about at all if they had had their way and Insee wasn't governor and instead we had some Covid19 denialist GOP lunatic.

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@13: Not really. Only if they sell, and unless they put it into a new house it's 25% or more less due to capital gains. And then a modest cottage owner couldn't afford anything in Seattle or it suburbs. Plus, in addition their mortgage, they pay $8K to $10K in property taxes from all the levies you vote for to stick it to the rich.

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"Reminder that Ron DeSantis has no principles": Sure he does. Republicans have one principle that explains practically all of their behavior: "MY TRIBE GOOD, OTHER TRIBES BAD." What makes any action good or bad isn't the action per se but whether it benefits them or someone else (especially Those People). What makes any statement true or false isn't the statement per se but whether the person making it is one of them or not. Etc. Ad nauseam.

I'm not just snarking. Examples abound. As this edition of Slog mentions, many Republicans want to "defund the police" now that their leader is plainly a criminal. Obamacare, which is just Romneycare writ national, was the Spawn of Satan for Republicans; why? Because it was the "signature policy" of a Black and Democratic president. And on and on. It's well beyond garden-variety hypocrisy. It's hypocrisy elevated to a governing principle.

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@17: What civil right you have been deprived of?

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@6 schmacky and @14 RogertheShrubber for the WIN! Thank you both for beating me to it.

@12 Bauhaus I: My guess is that this is what has helped lead to "quiet quitting" in the U.S. labor force today.

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@19: JFC, dude. 665 words.

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@23 the only thing that comment demonstrates is you are economically illiterate. There is a difference between wealth and income. If you want to vote for Sawant because you despise people who have managed to buy into a home or business that’s your perogative but don’t pretend you’re fighting some good fight. You’re just a hater.

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It’s Straw Man Fallacy Day at Slog!

Of course every day is Straw Man Fallacy Day.

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tensora dear, I work for the power company, NOT the water department. Water and electricity simply do not mix.

But I will say this: Having had a city cell phone for the last few decades, they reset themselves quite frequently, and it's possible to lock yourself out, but I've never lost any data. And if I were to have some piece of data that I had deleted that the personnel department wanted in order to discipline or fire me, it would be found.

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@29: No need to get your granny-panties in a bunch, dear; I was merely making fun of the Great Significance our dear Stranger has attached to having city utilities official Idris Beauregard request a factory reset on her city-provided cell phone. The poor dears are so desperate for any evidence of Durkan’s wrong-doing, they don’t see how citing another factory reset actually detracts from their case.

Thank you for confirming there need be nothijm nefarious in getting one’s city-owned cell phone reset.

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@30: lol this from the guy who made six long comments in just one thread to attack a three-line comment he bitterly refused to admit was a joke: https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2022/09/23/78519042/slog-am-new-cancer-treatment-shows-promise-un-security-council-denounces-putin-budget-season-approaches/comments/33

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Tensora dear, what makes you think I wear panties?

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well blip I don't
believe he Ever said
humor was his Strong suit

there's
damn little
Joy in Mudville.

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@34: Did you even get the comment was a joke? Because you seemed to take it as a personal insult, and you spent six (!) comments earnestly blip-splainin’ the “correct” answer — and your ‘explanation’ included a statement where you flatly contradicted a quote in the headline post! (Another commenter called you on this, but somehow that didn’t merit a comment from you.) I guess in your mind, you knew so much about the Solidarity Budget’s position, you could even lecture them on it.

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Speaking of reading comprehension, what defeated yours @27? What, exactly, did you find “unreadable” about it?


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