Remember how just a week-and-a-half ago Mayor Nickels said: “The people of Seattle will have the final say in the Monorail project.”

If Nickels meant that, if Nickels was honestly interested in the voters’ opinion, than you have to wonder about this bit of news that came my way: Nickels’s Deputy Mayor, Tim Ceis, and Nickels’s Director of Community Outreach, Marco Lowe, showed up to lobby against the monorail initiative at Monday night’s 36th District Democrats executive board endorsement meeting. (The 36th District represents Ballard, Queen Anne, Regrade, and Magnolia.)

Evidently, Ceis and Lowe weren’t very persuasive. The 36th Executive Board decided (by the necessary two-thirds majority) to recommend that its membership endorse the monorail line.

I’m going to see the Mayor tonight. In a pretty crazy turn of events, I’ve been asked to co-host a Katrina fund raiser with Gov. Gregoire, Sen. Cantwell, K.C. Exec Sims….and Mayor Nickels. I plan to ask the Mayor why he’s been so disingenuous about the monorail.