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<description>I&apos;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&apos;s why: From his bio, on his &quot;mature adults only&quot; (No, there&apos;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...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:55:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Ari Spool</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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!</p>]]></description>
<author>Ari Spool</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808205</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808205</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:01:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by earle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>kooks<br />
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz</p>]]></description>
<author>earle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808215</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808215</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:08:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by josef</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I think you mean he looks like Frankenstein's Monster, whose name was Adam, if I recall.</p>]]></description>
<author>josef</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808218</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808218</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:11:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jonah S</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>No, I meant Frankenstein. No one that isn't a complete asshole refers to him as "Frankenstein's monster." It's Frankenstein. Period.</p>]]></description>
<author>Jonah S</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808237</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808237</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:26:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Cato the Younger Younger</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>So a green swastika means they are the enviro-friendly Nazis?  I am not sure how to take that...</p>]]></description>
<author>Cato the Younger Younger</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808238</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808238</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:26:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mr. Poe</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><b>Uber-hippie?</b> I thought she was a meat-eater...</p>]]></description>
<author>Mr. Poe</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808241</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808241</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:27:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by t.p.n.</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><br />
Most of the info was lifted from Mark Worth, where it was published in the Weekly 10 years ago.</p>

<p><a href="http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/search?q=mark+worth" rel="nofollow">http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/search?q=mark+worth</a></p>

<p>Scooped by about 9 years or so by the other paper.</p>]]></description>
<author>t.p.n.</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808255</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808255</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:36:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by josef</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.  </p>

<p>However, I'll gladly agree that my comment was snippy at the least.</p>]]></description>
<author>josef</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808259</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808259</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:41:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by N in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<author>N in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808261</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808261</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:42:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jonah S</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Scooped? Crazy candidates aren't scoops. They run every year, ain't no thing. </p>

<p>As far as where it was "lifted from," try Blomstrom's website. But thanks for playing.</p>]]></description>
<author>Jonah S</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808263</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808263</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:43:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by tsm</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<author>tsm</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808274</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808274</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:54:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Patrick</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"Square" swastika = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Religion_and_mythology" rel="nofollow">Dharmic religious symbol</a><br />
"Diamond" swastika = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Nazi_Germany" rel="nofollow">Nazi symbol</a><br />
Green, square swastika = enviro-Buddhism?</p>]]></description>
<author>Patrick</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808286</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808286</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:10:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by t.p.n.</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Relax Jonah. Bloomstrom lifted it, not you. </p>]]></description>
<author>t.p.n.</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808289</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808289</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:13:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by viktor</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Eets FRONKenSTEEN.</p>]]></description>
<author>viktor</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808376</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808376</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:19:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by tsm</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Wow. His new site is even crazier than his old one.</p>

<blockquote>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.
</blockquote>

<p>Stay classy, David!</p>]]></description>
<author>tsm</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808405</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808405</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Natalie</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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?</p>]]></description>
<author>Natalie</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808424</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808424</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:44:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by cascader</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Ask him if he's ever been to seattlesucks.com. Then ask him why he looks like Gimli.</p>]]></description>
<author>cascader</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808441</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808441</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:51:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Katelyn</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>But what about THE ISSUES. THE ISSUES, PEOPLE. How is calling everyone a whore gonna help anything? </p>]]></description>
<author>Katelyn</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808587</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808587</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:11:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Smarm</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<author>Smarm</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808818</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808818</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:42:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Super</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"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?"</p>]]></description>
<author>Super</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808908</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c808908</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:19:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by David Blomstrom</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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:</p>

<p>“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.”</p>

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

<p>Jonah replied, “Have you ever read our paper?”</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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?</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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?</p>

<p>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.”</p>

<p><em>David Blomstrom</em></p>

<p>www.seattle-mafia.org<br />
<a href="http://2007.seattle-mafia.org/Misc/Strange_and_Stranger/" rel="nofollow">http://2007.seattle-mafia.org/Misc/Strange_and_Stranger/</a></p>]]></description>
<author>David Blomstrom</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c809464</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_seattle_mafia#c809464</guid>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:34:01 -0800</pubDate>
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