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Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Seattle Mafia

posted by on September 20 at 14:55 PM

I’ve been busy trying to set up endorsement interviews, but I wanted to pause for a moment and share my intense love for my new favorite school board candidate, David Blomstrom.

Blomstrom, who operates 2007.seattle-mafia.org (!!!) and looks a bit like Frankenstein, will—I hope—make for one of the liveliest campaign interviews yet. Here’s why:

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From his bio, on his “mature adults only” (No, there’s no porn. I looked.) website:


Welcome! My name is David Blomstrom, and I’m running for a seat on the Seattle School Board. Specifically, I’m gunning for the seat currently occupied by a lying, conniving whore named Brita Butler-Wall, representing District III.

As you may have guessed, this site is for MATURE ADULTS ONLY. If you’re hung up on that freakish Seattle civility, you’ll probably want to vote for my opponent, Harium “No Issues” Martin-Morris (or, as I’ve dubbed him, Whorium).

This is my fifth campaign for public office, having run for school board twice before (1999 and 2003) and twice for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (2000 and 2004). My campaign is both very similar to and very different from my first campaign.

I really want to get in touch with David to set up an interview, but when I called him earlier today, all I got was “the PCS telephone number you have dialed is temporarily not in service.”

David! Call me!

UPDATE:

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Terry Bergeson Superintendent of Public Instruction

Says uber-hippie ECB: “At least it’s a green swastika.”

Double Update: Blomstrom will not be attending The Stranger’s endorsement interview cattle call. “Sorry, I don’t do endorsements with the corporate media,” he says.

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He's got my vote! I love how he's running for the school board but insists that no young people see what he's doing. Shield their innocent eyes from their future ruler!

Posted by Ari Spool | September 20, 2007 3:01 PM
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kooks
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by earle | September 20, 2007 3:08 PM
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I think you mean he looks like Frankenstein's Monster, whose name was Adam, if I recall.

Posted by josef | September 20, 2007 3:11 PM
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No, I meant Frankenstein. No one that isn't a complete asshole refers to him as "Frankenstein's monster." It's Frankenstein. Period.

Posted by Jonah S | September 20, 2007 3:26 PM
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So a green swastika means they are the enviro-friendly Nazis? I am not sure how to take that...

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | September 20, 2007 3:26 PM
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Uber-hippie? I thought she was a meat-eater...

Posted by Mr. Poe | September 20, 2007 3:27 PM
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Most of the info was lifted from Mark Worth, where it was published in the Weekly 10 years ago.

http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/search?q=mark+worth

Scooped by about 9 years or so by the other paper.

Posted by t.p.n. | September 20, 2007 3:36 PM
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I'm not a complete asshole, and I refer to him as Frankenstein's Monster. Because, if you're talking about Frankenstein, and you call the monster Frankenstein, you don't have anything left to call Frankenstein without using an extraneous term (Doctor? Creator?). It's Frankenstein and the Monster; or, without the context of Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster. I only appeal to clarity.

However, I'll gladly agree that my comment was snippy at the least.

Posted by josef | September 20, 2007 3:41 PM
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As best I can tell, Blomstrom exists to make the likes of Stan Lippmann, Goodspaceguy Nelson, Richard Lee, and Mike The Mover appear like reasonable choices.

Posted by N in Seattle | September 20, 2007 3:42 PM
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Scooped? Crazy candidates aren't scoops. They run every year, ain't no thing.

As far as where it was "lifted from," try Blomstrom's website. But thanks for playing.

Posted by Jonah S | September 20, 2007 3:43 PM
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I remember him from a past school board election. I think the state constitution requires a minimum of one certified kook on the ballot per election, and he fills the role quite nicely, thank you.

Posted by tsm | September 20, 2007 3:54 PM
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"Square" swastika = Dharmic religious symbol
"Diamond" swastika = Nazi symbol
Green, square swastika = enviro-Buddhism?

Posted by Patrick | September 20, 2007 4:10 PM
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Relax Jonah. Bloomstrom lifted it, not you.

Posted by t.p.n. | September 20, 2007 4:13 PM
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Eets FRONKenSTEEN.

Posted by viktor | September 20, 2007 6:19 PM
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Wow. His new site is even crazier than his old one.

When I next ran for state office, I was one of three men challenging Terry Bergeson. Guess who got all the publicity? The three women running for the seat: Terror Bergeson, former SPI Judith “I have AIDS!” Billings and the infamous right-wing anti-WASL whore Juanita Doyon.

Stay classy, David!

Posted by tsm | September 20, 2007 8:02 PM
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Hmmm... I played chess online with a guy tonight who called everyone who played him a whore. I wonder if it was the same guy?

Posted by Natalie | September 20, 2007 9:44 PM
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Ask him if he's ever been to seattlesucks.com. Then ask him why he looks like Gimli.

Posted by cascader | September 20, 2007 10:51 PM
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But what about THE ISSUES. THE ISSUES, PEOPLE. How is calling everyone a whore gonna help anything?

Posted by Katelyn | September 21, 2007 10:11 AM
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I don't think he looks the least bit like Frankenstein. But imagine him wearing a sailor cap, squinting one eye, and smoking a corn cob pipe while he mutters to himself.

Posted by Smarm | September 21, 2007 11:42 AM
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"Towards the end of my career with Seattle Schools, I was told that every school in the district would soon have meals prepared and delivered by a private company. I saw what those meals look like at Rainier View Elementary School, and I was appalled. Nor were the students thrilled with them; they lined up to throw their food in the garbage every day. Have Seattle liberals no shame? Why not forget about freeing Tibet for a couple days and help me shove some of that pig slop down Cheryl Chow’s throat?"

Posted by Super | September 21, 2007 12:19 PM
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Why Jonah, you two-faced asshole - why didn’t you tell me you were trashing me on your forum at the very time you were inviting me to an endorsement interview? That’s right, folks. I received the following e-mail at 2:24 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20:

“My name is Jonah Spangenthal-Lee and I’m a reporter at The Stranger. We’d like to have you in for an endorsement interview. We’re doing them on Sept 26-28 and Oct 3rd and 4th. Please give me a call as soon as you can.”

I replied, “Sorry, I don’t do endorsement interviews with the corporate media. Learned my lesson in 1999.”

Jonah replied, “Have you ever read our paper?”

Of course, I have; I’ve studied most of the the major media in Seattle. So I visited Google to find some choice links to share with Jonah. In the process, I accidentally stumbled across this forum and was amazed to discover that the “reporter” who said he and his colleagues wanted to interview me was already telling the world that he thinks I’m some sort of kook who looks like Frankenstein.

I won’t say that’s the sleaziest media stunt I’ve ever witnessed—framing a teacher and driving him to suicide is a pretty tough act to follow—but it’s probably the most amateurish. They don’t call you people media whores for nothing, do they?

Fortunately, you probably don’t have to worry about losing your job; after all, The Stranger is hardly known for its journalistic integrity, now is it? Frankly, I think you’ll fare a lot better than Rebekah Denn and Lynn K. Varner, two other media whores I ’ve tangled with.

And “t.p.n.,” you anonymous, gutless piece of shit, where do you get off claiming I “lifted” anything from another source? I stated very clearly on my website that I was inspired by a sensational series of articles that appeared in the Seattle Weekly (Who Really Runs Seattle). I copied the names of the chief mafiosi who were chronicled in that feature and offered links to the original.

If anyone’s guilty of lifting anything, it’s you. After visiting your website, I discovered that you “lifted” a passage from my website - www.seattle-mafia.org - stole some of my ideas and even “lifted” the link I posted to another sensational article by Michelle Malkin.

By the way, your profile is simply stunning - a male working in the “maritime” industry somewhere in the Duwamish Valley. It’s always encouraging to discover freedom fighters who aren’t afraid to put their face behind their words (even if you forgot to include a photograph). Dipshit.

N in Seattle - I visited your website, too. Wow, peacetreefarm.org is such an inspiration! It makes me want to run out and fight Republicans, Democrats and media whores all day long. Actually, it makes me want to have some peaches and cream and take a long nap, but I’m sure your intention is to rally your chipmunk friends to do battle with the Evil Empire - right?

Well, I could stay here all day calling you people assholes, but I think you can make the case without my help. Thank you so much for discussing the ISSUES, caring about kids and democracy, blah, blah, blah. I encourage you to vote for my opponent, Whorium. Like you, he has no issues and works for what I call the “Seattle Mafia.”

David Blomstrom

www.seattle-mafia.org
http://2007.seattle-mafia.org/Misc/Strange_and_Stranger/

Posted by David Blomstrom | September 22, 2007 8:34 AM

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