Today's Seattle Times editorializes about the race for King County Assessor. But instead of assessing incumbent Scott Noble's record, or challenger (Seattle Monorail Board member) Jim Nobles's alternative plan, all the Times offers is this baseless innuendo:
Selecting this office and this incumbent to run against is a message to voters that Jim Nobles, the one with the "s" after Noble, thinks voters are too dumb to tell the difference.Actually, it sounds like it's the Times who thinks that voters are too dumb to tell the difference. But that assessment of its readership would help explain the general quality of the Times's contents. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 12, 2007 10:43 AM | Email ThisAfter all, this is a state where voters almost always favor anyone with the last name Johnson for state Supreme Court. Run with a first name of Faith for the court and you are a shoo-in. Faith Johnson, if there were such a person, would be elected before filing.
Ha Ha Ha. Hee Hee Hee. I was not amused by today's editorial about the Nobles vs. Noble race. Seattle Monorail Project boardmember Jim Nobles does care about taxpayers. You said it yourself. He also cares about a lot more, helping the lowliest of our citizens as a manager of a downtown detox center. I might agree with you if he was someone who had never held a public office and was some patsy of the extreme right running to confuse voters (reference the Johnson-Johnson Supreme Court
race of last year), but he is not. He is well qualified for the job,
more than I can say for the incumbent, whose office has been riddled with accusations of political malfeasance and favoritism (maybe you all at the Times would know this if you bothered to do some unbiased reporting more than once a year). There are plenty of good reasons to come out against candidates (depending on one's political views there are probably even some well reasoned arguments not to support Jim Nobles). The fact that his name is similar to the incumbents is not one of them. Don't quit your day jobs to pursue careers in stand up. Your just not that funny. Then again, you'd probably do a lot less damage.
Mark Griswold
Redmond, WA
Ha Ha Ha. Hee Hee Hee. I was not amused by today's editorial about the Nobles vs. Noble race. Seattle Monorail Project boardmember Jim Nobles does care about taxpayers. You said it yourself. He also cares about a lot more, helping the lowliest of our citizens as a manager of a downtown detox center. I might agree with you if he was someone who had never held a public office and was some patsy of the extreme right running to confuse voters (reference the Johnson-Johnson Supreme Court
race of last year), but he is not. He is well qualified for the job,
more than I can say for the incumbent, whose office has been riddled with accusations of political malfeasance and favoritism (maybe you all at the Times would know this if you bothered to do some unbiased reporting more than once a year). There are plenty of good reasons to come out against candidates (depending on one's political views there are probably even some well reasoned arguments not to support Jim Nobles). The fact that his name is similar to the incumbents is not one of them. Don't quit your day jobs to pursue careers in stand up. Your just not that funny. Then again, you'd probably do a lot less damage.
Mark Griswold
Redmond, WA
Ha Ha Ha. Hee Hee Hee. I was not amused by today's editorial about the Nobles vs. Noble race. Seattle Monorail Project boardmember Jim Nobles does care about taxpayers. You said it yourself. He also cares about a lot more, helping the lowliest of our citizens as a manager of a downtown detox center. I might agree with you if he was someone who had never held a public office and was some patsy of the extreme right running to confuse voters (reference the Johnson-Johnson Supreme Court
race of last year), but he is not. He is well qualified for the job,
more than I can say for the incumbent, whose office has been riddled with accusations of political malfeasance and favoritism (maybe you all at the Times would know this if you bothered to do some unbiased reporting more than once a year). There are plenty of good reasons to come out against candidates (depending on one's political views there are probably even some well reasoned arguments not to support Jim Nobles). The fact that his name is similar to the incumbents is not one of them. Don't quit your day jobs to pursue careers in stand up. Your just not that funny. Then again, you'd probably do a lot less damage.
Mark Griswold
Redmond, WA