Last night at Drinking Liberally, David Goldstein of HorsesAss offered to bet me $700 … the amount he has contributed to her campaign this year, that she would win in the primary with over 50% of the vote. I refused to bet that much, after all David is now a hired writer for a billion[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sawant’
April 14th, 2015 - 1:02 am § in Misc.
Conservatism Trumps Melanin in Seattle
Bruce Harrell is a self described mixed race Seattleite .. African and Japanese roots giving rise to a former Husky football player. Harrel, a very middle class guy quite at home in Bellevue where he has lived, is trying to play the “person of color” card in Seattle’s increasing[...]
April 6th, 2015 - 10:08 am § in The Ave Scene
FREE: Public Discussion of Minimum Wages
Minimum Wage History Saturday, April 11, 1:00 pm Speakers: * KSHAMA SAWANT, Seattle City Council * JAMES GREGORY, Professor of History, University of Washington * SARAH CHERIN, Political Director, UFCW 21 * HEATHER WEINER, YES! for Sea-Tac Campaign Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room (225), UW Seattle. Free[...]
March 24th, 2015 - 1:51 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Wealth vs Poor: The GUARDIAN
The Guardian Writes About Seattle: Many business owners, (the Seattle entrepreneur) said, have an “econo-erotic fantasy”, imagining that even if they aren’t paying their employees enough to buy goods and services from other firms, those firms are. ” The Guardian’s Alastair Gee describ[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 1:47 am § in America, The Ave Scene
A Review of Seattle’s Most Dangerous Politician
Daniel Beekman at the Seattle Times has a very fair appraisal of Seattle City Council 3rd district candidate, Kshama Sawant. A few quotes: “… the bully pulpit, not the legislative sausage factory, is where Sawant is most effective and where her star power is an asset. ” “W[...]
November 20th, 2014 - 4:55 pm § in The Ave Scene
Sawantism
reposted from Facebook Mike James I don’t know if Socialist Kshama Sawant will be re-elected next year, or which of the 7 new city council districts she may or may not represent, but I’d guess an important question in that campaign would be “what is the work/what are the expectatio[...]
April 26th, 2014 - 1:31 pm § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Scene: 15% and a weak candidate to run against Reichert
Over at HorsesAss Goldy’s music seems to be building toward a crescendo, playing on the signature of notes of the $15 minimum wage movement as if this were to become the theme music of a symphony, a Noble Cause. Occupy was also a Noble Cause. However, lacking a composer, the music ende[...]
Seattle elects “socialist “to city council
The national media is at it again. .. those stupid, science denying Seattleites When Seattle elected Norm Rice, a moderate banker as mayor, the national media paraded Norm because his skin was black. Now e have elected someone with tawny skin (no longer so interesting to the media) but she calls h[...]