What a cadaver. Are you sure that dude meets the minimum requirement of a pulse?

Oh goody, another skinny white male urbanist.

Uh, Magnolia is not an island.

wow
are there 'any' alpha males in seattle politics?
(child molesters don't count...)

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There aren’t any alpha males left in seattle, period.

6 There are, though.

I mean, we’re terrible people for having abilities and being productive, for having apparently erroneously believed that people are all grown up now and can take care of themselves, for knowing what words mean and, when in doubt, utilising a dictionary rather than whatever emotions people use to divine the meanings of words, and so on.

We do tend to just float about though, because you’re not going to hear “bb u r so beautiful I’m srry 4 u of course I’m feminist let’s go twerk” from us.

It’s an interesting time.

If he doesn't win the council election, he can move to the CD where gentrification has been accepted for at least as long as he's lived in Seattle.

@9 unlikely, The Stranger was a shill for those very Republican owned aPodments. Just read Charles wonderful accolades of such micro-home living from several years ago.

Someone tell this guy that he doesn’t need to keep saying “I think.” If you’re saying it, it’s apparent you’re thinking it.

So, which is it, trolls? Are you cheered by the notion that rapidly moving tens of thousands of people into a city with a very limited geographic footprint is just the peachiest example of bootstrappy, "Individualism Uber Alles" Capitalism you can think of? Or are you incensed by the very obvious consequence that all those tens of thousands of people need places to live - a need that cannot be adequately addressed by the equally limited number of SFH's available within that relatively small geographic footprint?

Anyone who knows Michael knows he's a great person. He has committed himself to making this city more livable for everybody! I'm happy to see him enter the race - an advocate for families and people of all ages and income levels.

@4. When I was groing up my friends in Magnolia refered to the neighborhood as The Island of Magnolia because you have to go over a bridge to get there. It was a common nickname. I am not sure if it is used today or if that is what he was referring to.

Yeah. Nothing screams "alpha" more than dudes who anonymously troll a liberal alt-weekly comment section 24/7.

I enjoy the new commentators who signed up today to shill for this guy. Welcome to Slog!

You gotta have faith.

@12: Or, instead of yelling at SFH owners like they’re our newest scapegoat (oh, wait — they are!) we could build large numbers of tall residential towers on a relatively small amount of our city’s land. Y’know, like how it’s done in this place called “New York City.”

Been involved in Seattle Schools a long time - never heard of this guy. Not at a Board meeting,a committee meeting or a community meeting. He must just stick with downtown folks.

@15 Except, you don't--unless you start north of the Ship Canal. Seriously--look at a map.

@4, @22: Socially and politically, Magnolia is an island. Try getting to or from there someday, especially at rush hour.

This guy looks like he eats toast sandwiches.

@22: I see Emerson St. which is a bridge going over tracks in 2 locations to get to Magnolia. I see Dravis St, another bridge going over train tracks to Magnolia. I see Garfield Street Bridge, which I think is a bridge. I would guess over 98% of people use those roads to get in and out making it seem like an island. But it is only a nickname. The parts you can get to without using bridges is east of the tracks. It used to be called Interbay. That may have changed and that is why the nickname may have gone.

@23 Which has nothing to do with the justification for the bridge replacement because "Magnolia is an island", according to the candidate.

@19:

Um, you mean we haven't already been doing that? Gee, I wonder what all those construction cranes have been up to around here the past decade or so? Based on the listings I see every week in the Puget Sound Business Journal they're not all exclusively office space, amiright? Also, it helps when your municipality is as big as NYC, which is nearly four times larger in terms of square mileage than Seattle. More square miles = more room to build up.

"a development consultant that works for a local commercial real estate firm" is enough reason to NOT vote for him.

I want to vote for this guy because he understands real estate but he's too chickenshit to call out the need to abolish single family zoning... I guess his base of support is Magnolia.

It's too easy to just say "we need more affordable housing." I want someone brave enough to say "we need more housing (and that means upzoning the city)."