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I also heard they don't put their pizza boxes in the yard waste container and they had someone clear the leaves from the property with a gas leaf blower! The level of muck raking and slime throwing The Stranger is willing to do to get their slate of candidates elected has long passed th anything goes line. It may yet work and if it does TS will own the inevitable harm it causes.

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Nikkita has a bullet on her flyer saying prioritized housing for black, trans, and queer communities. Doesn't seem very racially just considering housing should be based on need, not skin tone or gender identity and expression.

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But her sleeves are rolled up, so obviously she is determined to get shit done.

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I'm voting for Sara Nelson.

I don't know anything about her. I think I saw something about her being a progressive democrat. I generally like those. Also something about beer. Beer is yummy.

What I do know is that Rich says I shouldn't vote for her.

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Her company didn't do a DEI training? Good! That shit is useless at best, counterproductive at worst, which the research has been showing for at least half a decade.

https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19428200.2018.1493182
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017719841

As others have noted, your beating this horse is getting pathological, Rich.

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@5 I wouldn’t be so sure. Oliver has a pretty strong base and is smart enough to camouflage her extreme positions much like Mosqueda. I could easily see them wining moving the council further to the left and setting the city up for real ugliness between the exec branch led by Harrell/Davison and the SCC led my Mosquera/Sawant/Oliver. Of course it would only be a matter of time before Sawant attempts to go scortched earth on Oliver like she does with everyone else and I have to admit that will be fun to watch.

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The Stranger is really pushing their propaganda even more than usual this election. I will take it as a positive sign that they are afraid that they and their absurdly hard left slate of candidates have lost the narrative. Do I smell desperation or is that just the garbage and shit wafting from the giant encampment in the green belt?

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@13 Have you met Sara Nelson? She ain’t that civil.

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Matt, Chase, or whoever was supposed to to Slog PM tonight, probably just got fed up and got drunk.

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@13 'creamy maoism', worst Ben and Jerry flavor ever.

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I voted for al the incumbents in Bellevue, because it is a well-run city.

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@11 I beg to differ, Sir Toby. While the Nelson/Oliver race is liable to be close, the city attorney's race is probably going to be a blow-out for Davison. NTK is simply a terrible candidate.

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Fremont Brewing didn't actually give any completion dates for their three proposals, so it seems more than a little harsh to say they "failed." Although Rich tries really hard to imply they have the money to complete the other two, absent a look at their books (and insight into how they do long-term planning there), we simply don't know. (And, as @10 noted, attempting to execute one of the proposals right now would be a terrible idea, no matter how much money Fremont Brewing has to spare for expensive side projects.)

I do thank Rich for making this inadvertent admission about regular "progressives," though:

'To the extent that the phrase "practical progressive" carries any meaning at all, it might refer to a candidate who proposes uncontroversial and therefore easily accomplishable policies that incrementally improve peoples' lives. '

From this, are we to conclude the unadorned term "progressive" might refer to candidates who propose controversial and non-accomplishable policies that fail to improve people's lives?

Because that would explain a lot about how Seattle got to the current sorry state.

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Thank goodness for this reporting. Even if Nelson wins, it creates a dialogue about accountability. This is how you keep a Kyrsten Sinema clone from winning statewide election in Washington. Of course, it’d be cool if voters didn’t fall for the hypocrisy in the first place.

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I wonder what the Stranger would uncover if they looked into Nikkita Oliver's post with the same purpose and venom they are reserving fo Nelson?

25

Incredible news, nobody really doing anything about racism or climate change.

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@23: Kinda weird to make a convoluted compression to Sinema to make a point about hypocrisy.

27

Heaven forbid we ever elect someone to City Council who actually knows how to run a business.


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