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Key phrases include "generally applied" and "final action".

The Davis/Dinsmore memo is improper on its face, regardless how it was conceived and gestated. (My guess would be that Dinsmore dictated it and Davis signed off, rather than the other way around.)

The ethics apparatus can grind slow and fine. There's no relief in the process for Davis, who just has another 60 days to twist slowly in the wind.

60 days does take it past filing week for Port Commission races. If a vacancy then develops, I'm not sure what happens. Might be that the interim appointee serves until the 2008 general election, rather than having to run immediately in 2007.

Posted by RonK, Seattle | April 26, 2007 3:17 PM
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Nice brass tacks, Josh.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | April 26, 2007 4:07 PM
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Besides those imprecise key phrases that seem to allow some discussion as long as there's no action, the majority of the commish says the talk never took place anyway.

Posted by Bill Bigguy | April 26, 2007 4:35 PM
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You may not be a lawyer Josh, but you did a credible job of reading the statutes and applying them to the facts at hand. That’s a lot better than some lawyers can do.

On the following webpage are drafts of part of the new ordinance Sound Transit wants voters to approve in November:

soundtransit.org/x4862.xml

Take a look-see. What do you think?

If anything doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means SLOG about it. We’re a helpful bunch, out here in the ether . . ..

Posted by Ether Or | April 26, 2007 4:55 PM
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Keep at this - the plot thickens!

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 26, 2007 5:16 PM
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Posted by Josephine | May 7, 2007 6:49 PM

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