Comments on KC Council: Gaming the Public

Slow news day?

I think everyone has played hooky to see a game at some point. I'm just glad they realize that the issue hasn't died in the minds of us voters who are PISSED THE FUCK OFF at having to pay for something we voted against and supposedly won.

So as long as he's putting up a fight to keep me from paying for ANOTHER stadium whose events I usually can't afford to attend I'm going to cut him a little slack on skipping out of work to see a game. At least someone can afford to go.

9:30 a.m. and still no Viaduct slog post? Gimme back my methadone!

Dude, hey, if a baseball fan figures out away to get themselves to opening day, I see that as a positive attribute. Also, Safeco Field is a secular outdoor cathedral and we paid for it. Isn't it appropriate that our civic leaders attend the High Mass of the Spring there? Who are they to insult the Holy Day by going to work?

Having moved to Seattle only in the summer of '05, I was baffled for awhile by the monorail and viaduct issues - the more I learn about the history of the stadiums, the more my understanding of Seattle politics comes together.

P.S. I voted against The Safe, but didn't have to regret my vote!

I wish Phillips would grow a pair and say he doesn't regret helping come up with an alternate funding scheme to pay for Safeco Field.

And to the voters who feel cheated: you (and I) voted specifically against a sales tax increase, you did not vote against funding a baseball stadium by any means. So read the ballot and stop whining about politicians acting against your will.

Safeco Field may have been an obscene boondoggle, but it was a well-executed one that hundreds of thousands of Northwesterners, including some of you at The Stranger, get to enjoy.

So Larry Phillips screws the public vote and openly admits it. The best part of this is that he never saw any consequences. Seattle voters continue to reelect him.

I remember getting caught in opening day traffic at Safeco Field last year and thinking, "don't these people have jobs?"

Josh - ask somebody there for a story lead

It isn't skipping out of work, it's research. Or a "meeting with a potential client".

Oh come on, Josh... The story is that Council members have heard from the public, and realize the mistake they made regarding financing Safeco Field.

Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill on attending games. They're not attending on taxpayer money, or being paid for their time attending baseball games.

As you point out, council meetings are routinely cancelled and/or rearranged. It's not a news story unless they specifically avoided getting crucial work done to go play at the ballpark.

Josh, you should move to Boston, so you could get an annual column out of all the pols who go to Fenway on "Patriot's Day", an entirely fictitious holiday celebrated by Massachusetts government and absolutely no one else, so they can go to a game.

The stadium vote was scandalous, but going to a baseball game is just going to a baseball game. Don't be a grind.

Josh, I've been trying to call you back all day. Where are you, at a Sonics game?

"I deeply regret..blah blah blah, now please excuse me while I grand stand on this Sonics issue."

back in the mid 90's some Democrats actually voted against the stupid idea of using tax dollars to build safeco after taxpayers said no thanks.

What a strange thing to get indignant about. Opening day is, like, a national quasi-holiday. Like inauguration day. Or ECB's birthday. Don't be such a prig.

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