Pretty sure the amount at risk from a capital gains tax was much much much much bigger than the whole city council risk factor.

It's like a soccer game for the MLS Cup. Is he technically brilliant, does he deserve to "win"?

Maybe not.

But, at the end of the day, he scored the only goal that mattered in a 1-0 game.

@1 That analysis assumes the game is over, and a high tax for Amazon is off the table for the new council. I don't think I'd gamble on that. It looks to me as if another Amazon tax or two will at least be proposed and debated, if not passed.

Hope Florida's to his liking.

For all his fault - and there are many, for someone who considers himself a Democrat - it's not fair to describe Palumbo as "the former representative of the fine people of Maltby, a small town in unincorporated Snohomish county."

He lives in Maltby, but as a legislator he represented the entire 1st Legislative District, which includes just as many people as any other Legislative District.

Definite howler to call Washington ballots "absentee" but pedantically, "self-proclaimed" is probably closer to the mark with our non-partisian, top-two primary city council. The other council members are known to be Democrats but it's more the exception than the rule to loudly declare a party affiliation or operate day-to-day as if there is a party caucus, whip, majority leader and such like legislatures have. I probably would have said "emphatic Socialist", contrasted with the "tacit" Democratic party membership of the rest of the city electeds.

Everybody knows the vote count swings left in the days following a Washington election. The reasons why are well understood. Normally it moves a few points, maybe 5, but the 8 points Sawant got isn't out of the question, and you'd have to be an amateur not to have anticipated that.

They could beat Sawant, but it will have to be with somebody who supports exactly the same agenda: minimum wage, income, corporate and wealth taxes, rent control and renter protection, de-policing. You could get somebody who doesn't annoy everyone with the signs and the chanting and the impotent demands to nationalize corporate America, but you'll get the same ordinances passed either way. Trying to push her out of the way with corporate toadies only makes her stronger.

Snoke explained that so well that one time, the dark rises and the light to meet it? Right before he got, you know...

Whatta palumbo.

"Amazon lobbyist and former Democratic state Sen. Guy Palumbo, standing behind reporters at the scene, quietly chanted his own response: 'Lose!'”

What a goober.

Channelling Wally Gator.....

It may be less about Palumbo than about a progressive groundswell as shown by the large number of labor conflicts nationwide.

Maltby isn’t “suburban”—I t’s full on rural tRumplandia. Palumbo should stay in Florida. He’d fit right in given that it’s a Red State. That’s not going to happen, however, because the geniuses who run Amazon are letting this clown keep his job.