I'm not sure what's the stupider sentence. This one: "Strickland oversaw an organization who's political arm spent millions trying to buy Seattle's city council just to prevent them from taxing a trillion-dollar company."

Or the quip from yesterday's Slog PM: "Make parking free forever!"

First off, it's "whose," not "who's."

Second, in her work opposing the Seattle-only head tax while she was heading the Chamber of Commerce, Marilyn Strickland was not only doing her job; she was looking out for the best interests of Seattle. As much as I believe that Amazon as a company is the pure essence of rapacious, amoral capitalism run amok, the Seattle head tax on large corporations wasn't going to stick it to Amazon; it was going to stick it to Seattle and to employment in Seattle.

Marilyn Strickland is the sort of politician we need more and more of. She's a reality-based progressive in the vain of Katie Porter and London Breed who's (not whose) more interested in getting shit done than in virtue-signaling to the woke-AF crowd out there.

Oh, and let's also not forget that as mayor of Tacoma Strickland fought to bring light rail there and to this region.

Just relax. We count all votes postmarked on or before Election Day until November 20.

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@1 you must be new to Slog otherwise you'd know Rich is incapable of writing anything that doesn't conform to his view of how things should be without inserting some level of lame personal attack or outright fabrications. His comment about Kim Wyman is equally ridiculous. Please point out to me all the attacks against voter rights in WA state. The Tarlton campaign basically boiled down to vote for me because I'm a Democrat. She couldn't campaign on actual issues because they aren't any and voters rightfully saw through her bullshit and returned Wyman to office.

"which isn't great news for those of us who like our elections chiefs to actually support voting rights"

What an absurd statement. Under Wyman's leadership, Washington state has one of the most progressive voting structure in the country.

Responding to my comment @1. If I'm going to tweak people about spelling, I need to tweak myself as well. "In the vain of"-->"in the vein of."

@1 That's just, like, your opinion man.

The key insight to thinking about politics is that everybody thinks they have the correct opinion. Baldly asserting somebody is wrong, as an empirical claim, accomplishes nothing. The object of political activity is to find a way forward in spite of this.

Alden @6, you respond to my comment @1: "Baldly asserting somebody is wrong, as an empirical claim, accomplishes nothing."

I dunno, couldn't the same criticism be directed against the post itself, or against political expression you don't agree with?

I'm entitled to say I think Marilyn Strickland is terrific. I'm entitled to say why I think so. But hey, if you want me to make polemical arguments for the positions of hers I support--well, at that point it sounds like you don't want to hear my arguments so much as you don't want to hear from me at all. And sorry, I'm not going away that easily.

I do agree with you though about: "The object of political activity is to find a way forward in spite of this." That sounds like a very Marilyn Strickland view of politics.

@9 typical republican who wants all the benefits to society paid for by taxes... but doesn't want to actually pay any. Yeah, we see you.