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does the city charter allow for the impeachment of mayor big load?

How about a plain old recall?

neither are possible - the sheer fact you don't like him has no bearing on a recall

try to beat him next time - but remember c. hill is a low turnout area and can't elect the mayor at all

so stranger danger hipsters don't like him - so what?

run stephanie pure against him, or that guy from the U - elections for mayor are serious, not joking shit

NIckels had a vision, if it doesn't go - well - so much for that - after the fracas is over, people will connect with his hard work and record

and end up saying the tunnel idea was great, just could not afford it

erica, you are just getting boring on the topic. you did a good long feature, well done. now rest and let people vote

oh I know you think every fart is news, but really, it isn't

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Yeah, Erica, you heard the man. Once an issue has been reported, you should stop covering it - even when there are new developments. Added facts and extra information just make it harder for voters to decide what's really going on. The only solution is to withhold further information until all the ballots have been counted, the referendum overturned, the ground broken, the construction completed, and all the bills paid - in 2050.

We, the United Readers of Slog, have reached our threshold capacity for any issue related to the viaduct (or transportation generally). Our utter exhaustion can by proven by the the URS's reticence over the past week to comment on any post related to the viaduct.

Thank you, Eric, for having the courage to face down Erica, who has a remarkably similar name, but a radically different set of priorities. Now, let's get back to the important business of looking at butt cracks and wanting for free booze.

ECB, pull your empty little head out of your fat ass. If anything the no replacement and tunnel people need to work together to prevent a rebuild (which I think both camps agree would be a disaster). Once the rebuild (which Madam Governor is all moist over) is defeated, then lets fight out when we put in the tunnel. (After your solution fails, or immediately.)

Yeah, that's a pretty cogent argument YGBKM.

Too bad you had to go and completely fuck up any semblance of credibility you might have generated, by penning that juvenile opening sentence.

Erica's bummed that none of her errors got a mayor response. Hmm.

Amen on the Viaduct stuff. Heard enough.

Can we get back to Darcy? Or Josh going bald?

going?

Congratulations, across the field of battle, to Erica Barnett for being honored as journalist-of-the-year by the Seattle Municipal League.

So you fault the Mayor's office for responding to the Governor's coordinated effort to minimize and distort the impact of constructing the new viaduct. Yes, the mayor's office is engaging in a campaign debate, but let's not forget the governor is doing even more campaigning with state resources.

No.11: I agree (and I don't like the elevated any more than the mayor does). But I wasn't talking about Nickels v. the governor - I was talking about Nickels's response to the Times, which seems entirely out of proportion to the "errors." It's standard for politicians to request corrections, including for extremely minor and nonsubstantive errors and mere differences of opinion; it's not standard for politicians to send those correction requests to media outlets citywide.

Fair enough. But that is a pretty tough standard to hold elected officials to. At some point they do have first amendment rights, no?

I think the bigger scandal is the complete co-option of the state transportation department by the governor. I say this as no fan of the mayor -- I voted no on the tunnel. I think her target at the moment is actually Ron Sims, hence this silliness that they can build a new viaduct around the old one with minimal closures and disruption. I guess if you can pretend that years of mitigation isn't needed, you can avoid having to invest in transit and build new lanes on 405 instead.

Erica, congrats on the award. And congrats on the hard core, well, semi-hard core feminist rap.

95 percent of your male readers are sexist pigs and need some of that stuff from an outspoken, take no crap, woman.

Sissy and mommie and simpy girlfriends did not do them favors by letting it pass.

And what is wrong with butt crack - especially with the Stranger slog, have the puritans arrived at last to save us from butt cracks?

Be nice, GW (Bush) - or I will explain what I do with them in graphic detail and get an award at the next porno fair.

ERICA, FROM YOUR NAMESAKE, PLEASE GET SOME BACKING FROM YOU EDITORS AND DO THE BIG STORY ON PROBLEMS AT OUR VERY OWN VA HOSPITAL - BEACON HILL, better than most but rumors of bad shit there too.....another award? Real journalism, you have the skills.

eric

No, you could recall him for lying about public works. If you had standing ...

"standing" or not - no. it is quite hard to get a court to order a recall election.

tried more often than we hear - rare to succeed

makes sense as in total chaos might ensue over mere differences in opinion - and the next election is the test/relief of the voters in a given district/city/electoral terrain.

you sound like the R hacks who were going to try to impeach Gregoire after the close election, just because they were unhappy

couldn't, cant't, he might retire anyway, given a job in the newly elected President Obama's cadre....

I'm glad someone is correcting the spin out of the state's highway department trying its best to build a big new freeway over Seattle's waterfront. You can't count on the Seattle Times to get things right on this story.

While the state's freeway engineers are busy hiding things from voters, the Governor and state legislators, I'm glad someone at City Hall is doing something to get better information out. The state has already spent over $60 million on its freeways dreams, none of which can come true.

Um, are you not familiar with politics? I hardly think this is worth any outrage.

Not that hard. I got in a shouting match with Ron Sims once about doing a recall.

I could file it. But I won't.

I'm confused why people are getting so uptight on here. Barnett is merely pointing out the oddity of such a mass correction by a government agency. It is rare for these things to happen. They nit pick all the time privately, but hardly ever send such information to all outlets out there.

I believe that was the whole point of her post. And for some reason, y'all got your panties bunched up into the butt cracks that Eric wants to discuss with GW.