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Ed Murray … Mayor of Seattle!

IMG_0611Spent Sunday  night at a meet up for Ed Murray … well worth the trip!

There is no way in my words to express what Murray had to say.

The questions .. even those of his supporters … were hard to answer.  Sometimes made even harder because the person asking the question was too much of a sycophant or a liberal looking for the usual cant  Ed gave no cant and respectfully turned the sycophant’s questions nto thoughtful answers that reminded me of the similar evenings I have had here with Mayor Rice or Executive Sims.

I have known for sometime that Ed wanted McDermott’s  job.  Since I really do not like McDermott’s posturing, I expected to vote for Ed, seeing him as a better spokesman for Seattle.  I think Ed Murray would have made a great Congressman if Sunny Jim had been kind enough to retire.

Being a spokesman in DC is a lot different than being a mayor.  A mayor can not just spout off, he needs to get things done!  I had little idea that Ed had thought so deeply on difficult issues like the influx of metro Amazonians, need for schools to serve those folks, saving Seattle’s neighborhood cultures, taking advantage of the opportunities for urban design offered by the new tunnel, relationships to the UW ….

Even on the issues where he and I disagree, Ed made me think twice.

….  now I am glad that Ed Murray has had to “settle for Mayor.”

Vote Murray!

 

 


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