Comments on Follow-Up

Could someone explain to me why the incredibly incompetent and corrupt Port O' Seattle needs money from property taxes? Seriously, could someone walk me through it? Please let me know in advance so I can pop some of my Oxycodone and get myself into a mellow frame of mind.

Thank You

We can only hope - exactly what the recall law was intended for.

If reformer Lawrence Molloy had been re-elected in 2005, he would have had a majority, with Alex Fisken and Lloyd O'hara, to give Dinsmore the boot and clean up that cesspool. But, alas, Molloy was crushed by the downtown powers that be.

Pat Davis has to go. She's spectacularly stupid, spectacularly incompetent, spectacularly corrupt. Fucking filth is what she is. Maybe the Port needs to folded back into city government.

Dinsmore: the highest paid port commish in the country. Even though they lose money hand over fist, require huge subsidies, are shedding business like crazy, build mega-million-dollar facilities that are determined to be obsolete just a couple of years later.

Maybe they should go work for the Sonics.

Fnarf -- The Port Commission is elected county-wide. Conceivably, it could be beaten, whipped, and "folded in" to metrokc.

And if Pat Davis has a career-saving explanation for this caper, it's gotta be a beaut.

My bad. Yes, the county would be better. And appointed commissioners, not elected. If there ever was a better argument against elected commissioners than Pat Davis, I don't want to know what it looks like.

I was just about to write a snarky post about how it's like this because there are no contribution limits for Port races, but I just was fact-checking myself and found that they were actaully instituted next year. What will the cruise ship companies do now that they can't just buy candidates pretty much outright.

BTW - Josh, if you're reading - it isn't the occasional lunch that actually buys politicians, it's campaign contributions - yours, and the ones you can deliver from your friends and your friends' friends (and your friends' friends' friends!)

X - "Citizens for a Healthy Economy" ran a $100K independent expenditure campaign for their slate of candidates in 2005 (and got in trouble for it).

They only made one direct contribution - $10K to Pat Davis - which would have been subject to contribution limits if we had them at the time.

If you think contribution limits will keep money out of politics you're naive.