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The real winners of election season: campaign consultants, pollsters, yard sign printers. Paid with you tax dollars, no less! Fun side effect: arguing on social media and realignment of political norms beyond all recognition. đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™€ïž

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I guess when you can't win by running on the issues, you fall back on complaining about who supports the opposing candidate? I'm not finding that particularly persuasive.

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@4 you have it exactly backwards. Politics is built on coalitions of interest groups. Individual politicians don't matter - the people that back them do

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@5 Ah, interesting, I did not know that. I just went over to the SEEC website, and pulled up a list of the top contributors to Harrel's campaign. In the top 10, I see a woman who lists her occupation as a homemaker, a retired person, and a doctor who works at Seattle Children's.

So, using your methodology, Harrel must be the best candidate for women's issues, the elderly, and healthcare. Thanks so much, what a useful tip!

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Hannah, I'm disappointed you didn't link to my Stranger staff writer bio. So I'm going to add it here. And in the interest of completeness, you might have also mentioned that I have also provided (mostly on a pro bono basis) some strategic consulting advice to the IE for Bruce Harrell and to Seattle for Common Sense. Fingers crossed that I'm going to be celebrating on election night!

Now, for my Stranger bio:

Sandeep Kaushik [yes, indeed, please do remember that name!]

A former drug addict of no fixed address and ambivalent sexual orientation, Kaushik landed at The Stranger only after being poached from the Seattle Weekly’s recruiting department, which had lured him from the scenic vista of Cleveland, Ohio. Kaushik can often be overheard working on assignments for other publications (Time Magazine, The Boston Globe) while on the clock at The Stranger, but he has never once been reprimanded. Experts credit his good luck not to the fact that he quintuples the company’s minority employee quotient, but to the fact that Kaushik is a husband and father, with another kid on the way.

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@7 Sorry, dropped an "L" from Harrell.

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I'm Hanna, a stupid ignorant white chick who's never actually needed to deal with the real world. Listen to me. Lol....

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@14 Importantly, she is a Libra.

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The babbittry of the Seattle electorate is unnerving.

Here we see people protesting the status quo in the streets, nevertheless the turgid “business as usual” mentality is lurking within the mass political psychology.

This would be a great opportunity to throw the pro-developer corporatists out of office and vote the progressive Stranger ballot recommendations.

Per usual, The Seattle Times is recommending a conservative, pro-business slate of candidates when we need to address the homelessness and gun violence social decay with vigor.

Don’t allow the real estate developers to get in the driver’s seat and let Seattle become further socially stratified.

The torpor we endured under the Durkan administration should be reason enough to vote for progressives like GonzĂĄlez, Thomas-Kennedy and Oliver.

Also, stand-up with Sawant and agitate for proactive homelessness solutions and worker rights.

Remember to vote for Nguyen and the roster of Port candidates to get some fresh horses in Port leadership.

This election is an excellent opportunity to get more energetic leadership and make Seattle more socially evolved and livable, with more sidewalk cafes for example, as opposed to tent campers and transients crapping in the alleys.

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@16 None of that is going to happen.

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Well the right wing again rears its ugly head. Never having to live from paycheck to paycheck
most likely and had to go homeless because they lost their job or are running from abuse or mistakes caused by desperation - they shit on anything that threatens the status quo that could help the disenfranchised. The types that joined the white citizens councils in the past.

You are not moderates but really right wing who are afraid that someone else wants a bite of the apple.

It won't work for you.

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17 We can make it happen. Movements bigger than you.

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@19 I should hope so.

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The Stranger has never admitted the legitimacy of Ed Murray's victory over Mike McGinn (and the victory of the SR-99 tunnel, over McGinn's deceitful opposition) were legitimate, just as it has yet to admit the same about Jenny Durkan's triumphs over both candidates the Stranger endorsed. The headline here shows how heavily those chronic refusals have become institutionalized at the Stranger.

Refusing to admit defeat, to learn from it, and to move on rarely ends well, and repeatedly refusing to admit the legitimacy of others' victories both shows and breeds a nasty intolerance of dissent. This is how a former hipster alt-weekly, which once cynically questioned everything, became a mere propaganda outlet, defending chosen candidates beyond all facts and reason. Hannah Krieg seems to be the real deal, a talented writer and reporter, who informs entertainingly. Here's hoping she punches her ticket here and moves on quickly, before becoming tainted by association.

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What a steaming pile of baloney this slog turned out to be!

If private enterprise spends money to support a candidate "its called stealing the election". Does this presume that these evil empires can reach into the minds of a voter and use their cash to brain wash them?

If they can, then I suggest we spend money to help the brain washed idiots who simply believe of these "political ads"...for example the last little racist ditty than Gonzales pooped out.

If a trade union or the government is manipulated into paying for a candidate (vouchers) which is far more disturbing....then its somehow "not buying the election"?

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Just a tip... don't read a political opinion from someone who barely got out of puberty and trust it.

She barely knows what she is talking about... that's just a fact.


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