Ron Sims has issued a 17-page RFQ for a "Turnaround Team for King County's Elections Office". The accompanying press release says
The team ... will be fully engaged in the cultural, leadership, management and operational issues of King County Elections, and will develop and implement a strategic business plan to improve the performance of the department and regain public trust and confidence. The team will operate independently of current elections staff and will report directly to Executive Sims.[emphasis added]. But Executive Sims is the cultural and leadership problem.
Why waste $500,000 on a dog-and-pony-show turnaround team when the only turnaround team we need is David Irons.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 19, 2005 12:15 PM | Email ThisBetter not even mention David Irons or Pee Wee "the Censor" goldstein will accuse you of something. He doesn't really care what it is, just some random accusation to hurl your way.
Why is he obsessed with you Stefan? Could it be because he has such a weak debating position he has to censor posts and you do not?
I should think that as the webmaster for Ron Simms, Pee Wee the censor would at least try to behave himself.
Posted by: pbj on August 19, 2005 01:10 PMengaged in the cultural, leadership, mis-management
Posted by: 4pawz on August 19, 2005 01:31 PMengaged in the cultural, leadership, mis-management
Posted by: 4pawz on August 19, 2005 01:31 PMHe pick the election review board, he picks the Tiger Team, he picks the election director. They report to him. Sims makes Mayor Daily look like a piker.
Is it any wonder the product of such a system is an election with the qualities of the last one.
Posted by: JCM on August 19, 2005 01:33 PMThey should be called the conflict of interest team.
Posted by: Joe on August 19, 2005 01:39 PMA: Ron Simms has been tasked with cleaning up the elections department since the 2000 election. Dean Logan was supposed to be the one to do that. As a famous democrat once said "The buck stops here." The buck stops with Ron Simms. Otherwise, we will be in the same situation in 2008 that we were in 2004 and 2000.
A:Is this assumption based on any particular expertise Mr. Irons' has or specific proposals he's made?
A: To make the Elections Office accountable to the people, David Irons introduced a charter amendment in January 2005 for an elected, non-partisan auditor to run our elections. This would establish in King County the same system that Washington’s 38 other counties already have.
Q: Are you advocating that county executives for all counties that experienced voting problems be voted out of office?
A: No one said that. But is they repeatedly experience the same problems in election cycle after election cycle - they aren't performing. In the case of Ron Simms, his failure to perform is glaringly obvious to even the casual observer.
Posted by: pbj on August 19, 2005 02:13 PMWhy can't a real Republican run for Executive. Why not Reagan Dunn. He lost at the caucuses anyway, why not go for the Executive seat and give us someone we can be proud of. Not just Ron Sims light, which is all that Irons would ever be.
Posted by: The Dude on August 19, 2005 02:14 PMSeriously, Ron Sim's Turnaround Team is going to be twice as good as any Turnaround Team ever. His will go a whole 360°.
Posted by: Jeffro on August 19, 2005 02:18 PM"Why not Reagan Dunn. He lost at the caucuses anyway, why not go for the Executive seat and give us someone we can be proud of."
So Dunn, who is a loser and the caucuses prove that, so run for executive and win because GOP/conservative people are proud of losers.
Though I doubt that is what you were trying to convey. You spew such venom normally, your statement is the closest thing to complimentary. Remember as his mommy told him, If you don't have anything intelligent to say to someone, just slander them or call them a racist, homophobe, christian.
Posted by: Dengle on August 19, 2005 02:43 PMI would have swallowed "The Dude's" bait otherwise. I always find it funny that the folks who sling around the RINO term are the ones who are the first to bolt the party whenever anything doesn't go their way 100 percent.
I am perfectly able to post in my own name. Heck, unlike most of the right wing trolls that inhabit this place, I even provide a real email address.
Plus, that doesn't even sound like me. If you are going to blame me for something, let it be something witty, not the normal paranoid wingnut rants your board attracts. Sheesh.
Posted by: JDB on August 19, 2005 03:44 PMJDB/The Dude...Y A W N
Posted by: Danny on August 19, 2005 03:58 PMsnicker..... ;)
Ron Sims IS the problem with King County elections! That *he* is insisting on having authority over some hand picked turnaround team just defeats the entire purpose! Who on earth -will trust ANY outcome of the primary or election this fall? Ron Sims has created a stone-wall around the elections department and will again have complete control over the votes!
Don't use my tax dollars for this farce!
Posted by: Deborah on August 19, 2005 08:51 PMYou weren't too bright when you were one moron...now you're spreading yourself so thin as to be nothing more than an unpleasant stain.
I would suggest getting professional help, but you would only get yourself into more trouble out on Aurora Ave.......
Posted by: alphabet soup on August 20, 2005 08:28 AM