City Yesterday, with Greg Nickels
While that armed, ex-speed-using kid was going about what would be his last day on earth—on the one-month anniversary of the Capitol Hill massacre, no less—Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels was in NYC, joining mayors from fourteen other U.S. cities at a summit aimed at getting guns off city streets.
The Associated Press reports that the 15 mayors agreed on a six-point statement of principles in combatting gun violence, including opposition to federal efforts to restrict the cities’ right “to access, use and share trace data that is so essential to effective enforcement, or to interfere with the ability of the (ATF) to combat illegal gun trafficking.” “If the leadership won’t come from Congress or from the White House, it will have to come from us,” said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who led the summit with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
(Of course the NRA had something to say, dismissing the summit as “a taxpayer-funded publicity stunt.”)
Full story here.
Is this a sinister plot to deceive? How can this fat assed, not rad chic, homeboy mundane Mayor have any leadership on this issue on top of Global Warming? Christ oh mighty, what can the anit-Nickels hacks dream up to say to discredit this? The timing with a horrible good old handgun shooting - who planned that?
How can it be? Erica, Josh, tell us the real truth?
This cannot be leadership, political savy, and the exact will of Sattle residents and citizens expressed again by the duly elected Mayor?
God, the sky is falling. This is no way cool Nick or Peter --- a political hijack conspiricay of the fat and not rad chic. Seatte body politic is doomed.
Next, oh God no, he will find the money for the tunnel.