Confirmation of the City of Seattle's atrocious handling of December snow storms is a reminder that there is no greater travesty in local politics than the fact there is no major candidate to challenge Mayor Greg Nickels.
If ever there was a local official who deserved to sweat a campaign in which his Administration's foibles are called out in a very public way, it's him.
Posted by Eric Earling at March 19, 2009 01:51 PM | Email ThisFirst, would I make a quality candidate for Seattle Mayor? No, I wouldn't. I don't pass the litmus test of living in Seattle.
Your derogatory comment should be turned inward and you should analyze why good people won't enter the political field due to having to deal with people like you on a constant basis. What can you do to improve the situation?
Posted by: swatter on March 19, 2009 02:55 PMWe say it over and over, don't we? You simply don't have to make up stories about liberal lunacy. Which is something that sets us apart from them.
They have to make up lies. We don't need to.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 19, 2009 02:55 PM"No such emphasis was accorded other neighborhoods, although special attention was given to the private Lakeside School in Northeast Seattle, where a truck sprayed de-icer around the grounds, and a loop of streets in Laurelhurst that were plowed even though they're not among the city's list of priorities for snow cleaning, according to department records."
I'm sure they had good reason for this...
Posted by: TonyG on March 19, 2009 02:59 PMAnd it keeps happening and the same people get re-elected. And it keeps happening as more people clamor for government to do more.
Now, make the jump, if you will: This is the same system that will be controlling your health care.
Boy, I just can't wait.
I do not want to be involved or pay for this type of leadership or the crap it creates.
Posted by: Chris on March 19, 2009 06:17 PMIf Obama can score big because he isn't Bush, why can't we exploit public angst against Nickels?
The king must have his streets cleared before you peeons can.
Posted by: Medic/Vet on March 20, 2009 09:15 AMThat heads have not rolled is a sign of the culture of Seattle and King County. Whether it's drunk driving, incompetently miscounting thousands of votes in an election ... no offense is too great, except, of course, trying to fight the system for justice and the greater good. Play along and you can get away with anything. And it won't change as long as voters keep electing anyone with a D after their name.
Leftists have flowed into this area in the past 30 or so years. Seattle in particular has been regarded as gay friendly so the city has a huge gay and lesbian population, nearly all of them predictably leftists. Leftists don't like sunny weather. They are frightened of the sun. I don't remember this phenomenon when I was growing up here. The moment the sun comes out in Seattle women don massive hats. You don't see this in places where the sun actually shines more than a couple months a year. The people who now populate Seattle are a different breed. It's wet and cold and gloomy and these people like it.
A bit of tongue-in-cheek here but I don't think I'm that far off the mark.
There's a mechanism by which citizens register their approval or disapproval of our political leaders. We call these events "elections." (We can understand if you'd rather not hear that term, considering how many of them you've won of late.) If we citizens care enough about the city's performance in the recent storm -- and I think it was just fine -- then we'll make an issue of it in future elections. You're free to disagree with us, for all the good it will do you, since we don't care what you think anyway.
If you just can't stand how we continue to ignore you, then move to someplace like Northern Mississippi, or southern Alabama, or rural South Carolina, where snow is even less frequent. Plus, the decades -- centuries! -- of right-wing policies must have made those places economically prosperous, and kept those local environments clean; their bedrock belief in liberty means you'll be judged on the content of your character, not by any external irrelevancies. What are you waiting for?
If you think that Seattle's response to the storm was just fine, well, that's all we need to know that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. It was a total failure. But then, you lefties don't mind failure, as long as your original intentions were good.
And, global warning IS a complete and total fraud. Just so you know.
Posted by: Kato on March 20, 2009 04:17 PMI live in one part of Seattle, and work in another part; my home and office are miles from each other. I logged overtime in the office during the storm, physically going to and from there each day. (My boss specifically gave all of us the option of working from home that week.) The lack of co-workers allowed me to use some special lab equipment, whose regularly-scheduled users were stuck in their exurban homes; therefore I was MORE productive than on a snowless week.
Now, had I sat around whining about how I needed a nanny state to shovel my sidewalk for me, I (literally) would not have gotten anywhere. I don't accept such limitations if I don't have to; I'm not a whiner. Care to guess which viewpoint will prevail in the upcoming elections?
But then, you lefties don't mind failure, as long as your original intentions were good.
Mmmm, that describes why you guys stopped voting Republican, right? You were upset that our federal budgets were not balanced, our troops are still in Iraq, and that lax regulation led to market collapse. That you believe you can even lecture anyone on failure after all that speaks volumes for your total lack of self-awareness.
...global *warming*...
(Snort) Really, what can I possibly say here? Would you guys please stop making satire impossible?!?
Posted by: tensor on March 20, 2009 04:47 PM1. MAYOR McCHEESE
2. MAYOR McCONDO
3. MAYOR NOPLOW
4. MAYOR SNOWJOB
5. MAYOR McSLEAZE
6. MAJOR NOPLOW
7. MAYOR FUDD
8. MAYOR FAILure
9. MAJOR FAILure
10.MAYOR 5-CENTS
All the names that are just too mean to such a nice fellow, like MAYOR McFATTY, MAYOR PORK, MAJOR PORK, MAYOR BIGMAC, etc. will not be included in the Top 10 names for HIS HONOR. This is Seattle, a nice city, after all.
We are monitoring the TIMES, P-I, Weakly, and Strangler for the most mentions in comments from the citizenry.
Newest contenders:
MAYOR DISASTER, MAJOR DISASTER, MAYOR QUIMBY, BOSS NICKELS, MAYOR NOSALT, MAYOR NICKELBAGS
