LD endorsements determine who gets their literature carried free district-wide - and other LDs pay attention to them too, so yeah, they matter a lot.

actual doorknocking does more than all the emails you send.

So there ya go.

They don't want to seem unpopular so you won't hear much about it.

you lose a vote so you insult the people who out-voted your side?

very classy.

you didn't join you didn't go you didn't vote so STFU about the people who did. They don't deserve your arrogant elitist insults. The light rail is funded by a sales tax. They're sick and tired of our unfair regressive tax system -- a tax system Stranger bemoans -- except when it comes to a vote adding a sales tax hike -- then it's who gives a shit about actual fixed income people who actually suffer.

And guess what -- aresolution for transit in general doesn't mean this plan is approved.

Duh.

And think:
if the old time long term democrats in the very place that gets "benefitted" don't want it...

um maybe you should take a second look.

If you want people to go to their district democrat meetings, put up the times and places like you do for art shows, movies, readings, etc.

That would help a lot of younger folks to go and yes they should go.
Second, folks in the 37th are already getting the light rail pahse 1 -- they perhaps don't want to pay for phase 2 because they perceive no need to tax themselves to build a train to Fifeand other outlying areas. Perhaps they just want to go downtown and don't need a line 70 miles long that goes way out there to the exurbs.

What you mean is "They should have MY opinion".

We'll actually be getting a fairly awesome deal of it thanks to Subarea equity.

Were there no Subarea equity, construction could certainly be done 2-5 years sooner by paying it forward. But we have to be fair to those who "don't need a line 70 miles long that goes way out there to the exurbs."

I think the assessment that they need to have an opinion is fair.

Voting for it will enslave you to gangsters and con men for the next 20 years.

@13: The reason it's so difficult to get from Cap Hill to the CD is because long distance commuters have to... drive! 23rd is congested with cross-city traffic from those long distance commuters and so are so many other roads in this city.

Paying 50 cents on $100 is a good deal, especially if we can also get local transportation wrapped up in the future on the back of this. Not now, of course, since ST is generally barred from providing local transit, but this passing would certainly give us ground to say "people want rail transit, why not specific to the city?"

Rossi is more concentrated on roads which we are in dire need of in the exurbs.

I disagree with his plans for 520 and the Viaduct.

Both should be scrapped.

Other than that, Vote Rossi!

Think you can come up with something of this planet?

Anybody WITH a job knows you don't always get to decide WHERE YOUR JOB IS.

Inbreeding isn't just limited to rural areas. What else would explain some of these moronic comments?

"One thing is glaringly clear: Sound Transit's primary purpose isn't to help people get around the city, rather it's to help people get around the region."

As if people who live in Seattle don't work in, say Bellevue or Redmond. There is a new weird argument invented each day to oppose light rail in Seattle.