Yes, all those voters who changed their political positions when the 15th fucking mailer came in the mail.

Truly cant wait for the whiny impotent asshurt articles from Rich when Sawant gets her ass handed to her by the VOTERS (you know, the people who actually fill out ballots, which is not the same thing as Darth Bezos sending out campaign fliers, as much as you might pretend otherwise). Speaking of Bezos, can he make Keck an offer and buy out your pathetic rag already?

“CASE won't tell me why they won't let you see the check,“

Because CASE assumed an adult would understand about concepts such as “forging of checks,” “identity theft,” and other excellent, non-political reasons for not producing a redundant visual record whose contents have already been verified and published on the PDC’s web site.

Glad I could help you out on that, Rich; you’re welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTOag1lQHc

Out of State Unions donated over $1 million to the City Council race, and Amazon could have donated $1 billion. Instead the simply matched (and didn’t even match they donated less) than the opposition supporting far left liberals instead of centralists.
Should companies be allowed to make political donations? Should there be a limit? Should the Teachers Union be allowed to donate to Supreme Court judges who directly raised their wages? Should they be limited?
It seems that Republicans want to limit Unions.. and Democrats want to limit their opposition.
It’s not so black and white

I think I've received about 62 total mailers so far.

Just saw a guy flip off an Amazon truck parked near BofA in the U Dist, so you can tell this is making them tons of friends in Seattle

If I were Egan, I would be pissed about special interests disrupting my campaign and supplanting my goals and principles to be viewed as just another corporate egghead by people who might even agree with me.

If he happens to win this election, I hope he will not answer to Amazon when they try to call in the favors he never asked for, I hope, if he is a real progressive. But it sets a troubling precedent nonetheless for those that would gladly part with their superficial offerings for personal enrichment and pura vida getaways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhSm6G7cVk

When you vote, don’t forget that Sawant played a significant role in giving us Trump. She campaigned against Clinton in swing states before the 2016 election and unwittingly spread the Russian propaganda. She has also been a huge failure on council. She has nothing to run on, so she has created a bogeyman to run against. It is time to give somebody else a chance. Egan is a progressive. He is actually very critical of Amazon and had nothing to do with the PAC donations and spending. This framing is such BS.

"WHOMST"???? How can we trust what a person has written once they have used a patently absurd nonexistent word?

@11

Whatsts?

Sometimes Political Action Committees actually agree with many of the people as in this case. Public Safety, Safety for Small Businesses, Safety for Communities affected by gun violence. All these things are not primary issues for our current council. We need them to be.

They have a point:
I always copy million dollar checks and take them to
Cheque Cashiers Corps LLC, with the PAC's name
whited out and mine whited in.

It only hasta work Once...

Why the fuck did you insist on buying bad coffee?

I would think that anyone claiming to be from or even speak for seattle should be to order decent coffee no matter where they are. Especially from a local company like seattle.

@8 As a counterpoint to your anecdote, I note that Sawant's campaign is still cool with the Amazon delivery guys.

Recent campaign finance reporting shows Sawant made two purchases from Amazon in the last 2 weeks or so, one for cilpboards and pens, and the other for a wireless router.

I am surprised Orion hasn't managed to get a video of an Amazon delivery driver dropping off packages at the Sawant campaign headquarters. Maybe her staff is smart enough to route those elsewhere to avoid the bad publicity?

By the way I checked and that foam is not recyclable and you can't put it in the recycle bin, no matter what they pretend.

Real green firms use mushrooms for packaging.

Don't really care who's supporting whom. All I know is that the current city council is way in over their heads. They are incapable of independent thought and couldn't come up with an original idea if their life depended on it.

I doubt the check was actually stamped "VOID". That's an anti-counterfeiting feature that appears on most checks if you scan or photocopy them. To the naked eye, on the original document, it's a subtle, almost invisible pattern; but to an electronic device it pops out.

No idea what kind of progressive Egan is, but I know in my district, Penderson is the kind who puts a picture of a kid on a bike on a mailer about how he was in favor of shutting down protected bike lanes on a long planned project. If you think people like that will pull city council's head put of its ass, you have your directions mixed up.

And if you think that someone who, on one hand, claims to be a progressive, and on the other hand, happily endorses mailers full of stereotypes, scare tactics, and self inconsistent proclamations is going to fix city council, then I guess it doesn't matter who actually wins because you will make the evidence fit your narrative despite the fact that you voted for the most spineless innefective corporate shill council in recent history. They won't be "progressive" because they won't progress, even as much as the current council's overall flacidness.

Look: Bezos is a dick. I'm a former Amazon customer service worker - ie when Amazon customer service workers were still in Seattle, and why aren't they or haven't been for nearly twenty years? Because there was a nascent union movement in 1999-2001 and that's why the entire department was outsourced and offshored. (FYI I quit in 2000 so was not fired.)

And Amazon's brutal culture of employee reviews: that was there from the start, and is a feature (at least as far as the execs are concerned) rather than a bug. It's only recently got attention.

Seattle's housing problem goes beyond Amazon, of course. (I paid 400 bucks a month for a share rental with friends and a view overlooking Lake Washington when I lived there.) It's greedy, mostly olds homeowners, who object to multi-family units in their quaint neighborhoods. But the fact that Amazon et al is siding with Trumpkins and virtue-signalling liberal hypocrites should tell you all you need to know. (How many times have EMS been called to Amazon warehouses because employees with suicidal ideation in the past 5 years? Close to 200. There was a Daily Beast article about this earlier this year.) Put another way, Jeff Bezos is a horrible human being. Yes I already said that. But it deserves saying: over and over again. Until people listen.

Henry Ford was a genius until he was a horrible human being. Bezos may well die a bizzillionaire, but can we get to the point he also dies a horrible human being, as well? I don't give a f*ck who he voted for.