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Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Latest Numbers

Posted by on November 10 at 11:12 AM

In the latest election results, the monorail’s loss had widened to a 65-to-35 percent margin, and Richard McIver was still defeating Dwight Pelz by nearly 6,000 votes, maintaining his healthy six-point lead with more than 90,000 Seattle votes counted. As monorail supporters licked their wounds and celebrated a tough uphill battle against opponents who outspent them five-to-one, the pro-monorail kids at 2045 Seattle were discussing what to do next. One possibility: Link up their newly mobilized grassroots network with the People’s Waterfront Coalition, a group of transportation activists who want to tear down the viaduct and replace it with a surface street, plus fixes to the downtown transportation network.