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Friday, August 17, 2007

Does David Della Have A Split Personality?

posted by on August 17 at 15:57 PM

Over on City Council member David Della’s blog, it’s hard to tell who’s talking: Sometimes, it sounds like boilerplate David Della.

My family tradition is linked with the working waterfront. Today, there are nearly 125,000 jobs connected to Seattle’s industrial lands. These are, for the most part, good family-wage jobs that have been the backbone of our economy.

At other times, his blog appears to have been taken over by a mysterious second person.


The Alki Foundation of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce endorsed David’s campaign today.

The personality of the writing changes dramatically, too. From pleasant but bland:

As I’m walking around tonight’s gathering, one conversation keeps coming up–I’m hearing the mantra that as Seattle is growing, it’s becoming more unaffordable for middle class families.

To sarcastic and bizarrely angry:

As I was riding on the elevated monorail with David this morning between Ballard and West Seattle, I remarked to him how fortunate his opponent, Tim Burgess, is to have the endorsement of Tom Weeks, Board Chair of the wildly successful elevated train.

“Without him, 40,000 more people might be driving their cars today, causing more traffic and pollution. It’s a good thing Tom brought his sharp pencil to the job,” I said.

Who is this mysterious second voice? Does Della have two personalities—the nice David and the really, really super angry one? Does he just like referring to himself in the third person (and talking to himself)? Or could there be another explanation?

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1

Drugs.

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 17, 2007 4:08 PM
2

Who cares?!?

Read SLOG!

Posted by mr.ryan | August 17, 2007 4:41 PM
3

Simple - one of his staff (or campaign) members probably does a lot of his blog stuff.

Posted by Mr. X | August 17, 2007 4:42 PM
4

Della's an asshole. He can't have a split personality. Just a fissure.

Posted by Dan Savage | August 17, 2007 4:51 PM
5

I'm hoping one personality is Sugar and the other is Spice.

Posted by Original Andrew | August 17, 2007 4:55 PM
6

@4--very clever!

Posted by good one, savage! | August 17, 2007 4:58 PM
7

Rough week, Dan?

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 17, 2007 4:58 PM
8

Nope, Mr. Poe. Pretty sweet.

Posted by Dan Savage | August 17, 2007 5:04 PM
9

Erica, did you try to post a comment? As I mentioned in another Slog comment this morning, the comment I tried to submit to Della's blog on 7/29/07 is still "awaiting moderation." Not a single comment has been posted to his blog, ever. Doesn't he have any friends?

Posted by JvA | August 17, 2007 5:38 PM
10

Yes Dan he is! But you left out total.

The other voice is Della's brain - Michael Grossman

Posted by whatever | August 17, 2007 5:39 PM
11

Wow, that does sound schizophrenic.

Such is the peril of being under the thumb of multiple special interests. It appears it's gone to his head.

Posted by Gomez | August 17, 2007 5:54 PM
12

I talked to David about workers abused by the underground economy on city funded jobs. I thought based on his past he would be sympathetic. He was disinterested and skeptical. I suppose it could be worse and have an antilabor candidate instead of a disinterested one.

Posted by 52 pickup | August 17, 2007 7:46 PM
13

Hmmm...judging from his political record and his appearance at the QA Chamber on Thursday, I don't think Della has even one pesonality, much less two.

Posted by Gitai | August 17, 2007 9:12 PM

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