The Seattle City Council convenes this week to choose from the applicants to replace departing Councilman Jim Compton. The buzzword is diversity. The P-I: "City Council opening draws diverse group"
"I would like to see another woman on the council," said Councilman David Della. "A woman of color, who works collaboratively, has a working knowledge of how the city and City Council works, has demonstrated leadership with diverse communities and can successfully run two campaigns back to back."
As I mentioned earlier, the best candidate for the job is my wife. She would add diversity to the Council, not because she happens to be Korean-American, but because she's a pragmatic centrist while the incumbents are homegeneously hard-left and hopelessly impractical. Unfortunately, she's not available at the present time and in any event she wouldn't want to take a job where she's hired primarly for the color of her skin and not for the content of her character.
Moreover, Della's protestation that the City Council is lacking in women comes across as hypocritical. If he really believes that, why did he run against then incumbent Heidi Wills?
My favorite candidate in the running is Aaron Shuman. Shuman is currently working under contract at a U.S. Air Force base in Kyrgyzstan. He is also a regular reader and frequent commenter here at Sound Politics.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 09, 2006 12:06 PM | Email ThisTouche, Stefan!
Darn, they must hate it when you talk common sense like that! (btw, when your wife does become available, we do hope she'll run for council)
Posted by: Michele on January 9, 2006 12:35 PMSo, to those who worship this false God of "diversity", I say, diversify this.
Posted by: Interested Observer on January 9, 2006 01:35 PMVote No for Della, next election.
Posted by: Hank Bradley on January 9, 2006 02:15 PMAnd he really believes this crap too - that's the scary part.
Of course, you have to wonder about a liberal that just moved to Queen Anne and his wife is lawyer/real estate agent. Considering what capitalist they are, how does that square with their "capitalism is evil" thought process? Of course, when a leftist makes money, that's OK.
Posted by: H Moul on January 9, 2006 03:01 PMWith a real military veteran on the Council, let's see these pinheads try to diss the military again!
What a load of idiots. If you wife isn't available, how about your cat? Dog? Get a rock from you yard and toss it in the race.
Try to hit Della in the process.
Posted by: BananaLand on January 9, 2006 07:04 PMJust wanted to say thanks for the support. As it stands, I am trying to arrange either a video teleconference or having someone stand in my stead and read a prepared statement as it is not possible for me to make it back to Seattle before the 16th. The only other people I've really been in contact with on this matter were reporters from the Times and the PI - and the Times apparently forgot I existed once they saw the "local regulars".
I answered some questions that Jim Brunner asked - namely, what would I try to do for Seattle. My big thing is that Seattle seems to have outgrown itself - infrastructure is not adequate for population density and usage - and that the City of Seattle should focus more on providing essential services. I said that my view is that those services are fire, police, and infrastructure, not $628,000 on "planning transit alternatives". $4 billion on a viaduct to replace - not augment or increase - existing capacity? Come on now.
Anyways, I'll let you guys know what Jan Drago says about my request.
Posted by: Aaron on January 10, 2006 11:15 PM