UPDATE: A source close to Sawant’s campaign has bragged to me that she has already raised over $400,000 BEFORE the primary is complete. The irony of this is that her campaign is also bemoaning the voters’ decision to go to district rather than city wide elections DESPITE her deci[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sawantism’
July 22nd, 2015 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS: The half million dollar race for a $120,000 job
July 18th, 2015 - 8:22 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Ed Clark: A Dialog about Seattle and Neighborhoods
We are afraid that the quality of life of Seattle single-family neighborhoods will be destroyed. Edward Alan Clark I just heard the most asinine comment in a KUOW discussion about why single-family home owners don’t want duplexes and triplexes built next to them: ‘they think it will [...]
July 12th, 2015 - 6:15 pm § in Misc.
Ridicule is the best way of dealing with BDS
Israeli caricaturists mobilize to fight BDS via Facebook News: A group of Israli caricaturists frustrated with ineffectiveness of hasbara are posting sarcastic caricatures to expose BDS supporters’ hypocrisy. YNETNEWS.COM[...]
July 12th, 2015 - 8:02 am § in The Ave Scene
I support RATIONAL Linkage Fees
Among Sawant Kshama’s catch phrase demagoguery is the term “linkage fees.” This is a tax on new construction .. presumably to be used ot pay for creating the housing projects she wants to build for the poor. Sounds good? Perhaps until you read the numbers. The linkage fee s[...]
July 11th, 2015 - 8:38 am § in The Ave Scene
Commentary by SMS: A Sawantista Accuses Me of Racism, Classism and Obesity!
John Retherford Stephen seems to me to just be expressing a sense of class privilege, and anxiety that someone in power seems to be challenging the entitlement businesses feel to have exclusive access to the ears of their political representatives. How dare a politician ignore them and focus all the[...]
July 7th, 2015 - 11:12 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Times and Seattle Municipal League Rate Pam Banks as Best City Council Candidate in District 3
The Municipal League has rated the five people running for Seattle City Council form District 3. The Times agrees. (readmore ST stories about Pam Banks) City Council Member 3 Leon Carter Adequate Interview: None Available www.leecarterdistrict3.com City Council Member 3 Pamela Banks Very Good Inte[...]
July 2nd, 2015 - 8:16 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle loses 160 units of low income housing in fight over right to work.
“Certainly, the politics were part of the issue,” David Thyer, president of Seattle-based R.C. Hedreen & Co. (story based on article in Puget Sound Business Journal) The fight is over the right to form a union. In addition to the 160 low income housing units, there would have bee[...]