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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Municipal League Endorsements

Posted by on August 29 at 16:10 PM

They’re out, and in Seattle’s 43rd District, the “outstanding” rating went to Lynne Dodson.

(Stephanie Pure, Bill Sherman, Jim Street, and Jamie Pedersen all received “very good” ratings, while Dick Kelley received just a “good.”)


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Interesting. The Republicans are running a full slate of unqualified candidates in the 43rd.

The Muni League wants responsive? Bill Sherman replaced my stolen yard sign within 4 hours of its reported demise. Now THAT'S responsive!

What is the Municipal League? Context?

The Muni League used to be a power in this city, but foundered sometime in the late 90s, as I recall.

Since then, with the exception of their judicial recommendations, most people ignore them.

Well intentioned, sure. But not that relevant. Kind of like Rumsfeld.

Approximately zero-point-nobody gives two squirts what the muni league says. Who walks into a voting booth and even remembers the muni league recommendation, let alone let their suggestion? I'm guessing nada.

What percentage of the population even knows what the muni league does? Go ahead, stop the next person you see in line at subway. Maybe 2% of the population? Of that 2%, what percentage hadn't already made up their mind based on their own research? It's got to be pretty close to zero.

Check out their site - they have a board member named Ramsey Rammerman. No way that's real. What kind of sick, twisted individual does that to their child? And people are afraid of the homos having kids?

Every organization who has endorsed any one of these six candidates ought to give some kind of explanation as to where they get off telling people to throw away their vote on their boutique vanity candidate.

The Stranger of course too some heat -- and rightfully so -- for telling readers to vote for some real nice folks but, let's face it, folks who can't win. Everyone else making endorsements should be held to the same high standard, and that should apply to all six declared candidates, since none has emerged from the pack. The polls are telling us that they are all going to lose, sorry to say.

Anyone with a realistic understanding of politics has to admit that there is little chance, statistically, of anyone being elected to this office, and endorsing losers like Ralph Nader is what put Bush inthe White House.

They are irrelevent. But so are slog (flog)posters...

elenchos, i'm going to assume that you don't think that these candidates are running for the American Presidency. I'm going to assume that you know that these candidates are running for the 43rd District house seat. These are the candidates. One of them is going to win. Because there aren't any others. It's going to be Pedersen or Street, *maybe* Dobson.

I'm voting for Street. Talked to him a couple times. Nice guy. Smart, and open to all sorts of great ideas. For instance, he told me he was in favor of taking down the viaduct and not replacing it with anything, and using the savings for other transportation options, like mass transit.

Well, we'll see what ends up happening. It will all hinge on turnout in the primary, and there's nothing else on that ballot other than the judges and justices to make one want to vote, quite frankly.

well, except for the PCOs.

When IS the stranger going to announce endorsements?

Will in Seattle-

Random question: did you get a fancy mail piece from Bill Sherman? i know he's one of your favorites in the 43rd race.


Jim Street is for the tunnel. It's Pure that's for tearing it down. (I got this from the previous Stranger Slogs where each candidate gave his/her positions.)

I didn't know the Muni League was considered irrelevant when I applied for the committee; I saw it as an opportunity to give back a little or something. I certainly learned a lot about each candidate. They sit before the committee alone and are asked a number of questions from a huge bank. They don't know what they are going to be asked.

As the Muni site says, we don't rate on policy issues. We don't compare one candidate against another. We are interested only in the fitness for public office, which we base on 4 criteria: Involvement, Effectiveness, Character, Knowledge.

I didn't think Dodson was outstanding. Street and Sherman were. Unfortunately I missed Pure, Pedersen, and Kelley.

I don't know much about the Muni League's ratings, but there's something amiss when a candidate who lists union posts as "Public Offices held" receives an "Outstanding" rating.

The only ratings guide I take with me into the voting booth is the Stranger endorsement cheat sheet.

Wow! What a lot of comments from frustrated folks whose candidates didn't get the Muni League rating they'd hoped for! It's a remarkable amount of attention to ratings that they claim aren't important. I'd guess that if the ratings had come out differently, there'd have been fewer dismissive comments.

There's a reason that the Municipal League ratings get so much attention - even from bloggers insisting that they're not important. And that reason is that they DO carry weight with some folks. Probably not with the same folks who rely on Stranger endorsements, though.

Lynne Dodson got the highest rating from the Municipal League because she has broad experience with a variety of constituencies and issues, and a great grasp of those issues and constituencies. Her work as a community and labor leader has shown that she can bring together diverse forces to successfully promote a progressive agenda. She'll be a great legislator.

Anyone that's for the tunnel is dead to me this election. Period.

Could the fact that Lynne Dodson is female have anything to do with the shock and surprise that bloggers and pundits express in reaction to her endorsement by the Muni League? As in, how could a woman seriously compete with the likes of a Jim Street, Bill Sherman, or Jaime Pederson? Their sexism might be blinding them to reality.

Bob Markholt

Glad to see Lynne has such enlightened supporters like Bob Markholt. We lefties would never support a woman at such a high level of public office. I mean, just look at our Governor and US Senators.

Why is it that Dick Kelley and Jim Street list a lot of overlapping endorsements? Is that common? It could be that I've never noticed it in prior elections and it happens all the time.

Happens all the time. You endorse one person because they asked you and then boom, someone else you also like asks for your endorsement. Hence, the duel-endorsement.

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