My first thought upon reading this was.. "WHO THE FUCK CARES WHO THE DAMN UNIONS COZY UP TO!"
I'm so fucking tired about the media giving unions more publicity than they deserve. The era of unions is OVER! They need to get over themselves. The IT industry, which is HUGE in this area has no union. How are the wants/needs of that huge voting block represented? They aren't.
Waahhhha waahhhhh I'm a union member and I want my dues to mean something! Wahhhh
Geeeessshhh..
What is hilarious Baconcat, is that the unions have no way to justify supporting either candidate, and McGinn LESS so than Mallahan. If anything... Mallahan will get their grudging support as he is the lesser of two evils to them.
Either way.. .hopefully NEITHER of them pander to union interests. Unions need to be shown in dramatic fashion that their influence has waned in recent years.
I admire Murray for this decision. It's the right thing to do, at this time.
But I think he would've made a great candidate for Mayor.
Everything he says here is true -- the conversation urgently needs to be elevated to the real issues in this town. The public must demand this -- of the media, and of ourselves.
We also need more than 75,000 people to vote for Mayor in this town! Come on!! How hard is it to mail in a ballot, people???!!
Do your homework, read up from a variety of sources, attend some debates and candidate appearances, ask questions, ponder the answers, mull it over with your friends and family, if you must....and then VOTE.
Bravo, Mr. Murray. You have eloquently voiced my disquiet about the choice we have. I like Mc Ginn, but I also want a tunnel. I don't want to be a single issue voter. Mr. McGinn, convince me why even though I disagree with you on your biggest issue I should still support you. Mr. Mallehan, I just don't trust corporatist types. I am not anti-business-- I just don't trust them with public office (to paraphrase Adlai Stevenson about Republicans). Show me if you will be enlightened and talk to me about the broader agenda. It's not just the unions that are up for grabs.
Murray has done a great job with gay rights. Let's all get behind the effort to APPROVE R-71. I'm glad McGinn is unwavering on gay rights. Good for him.
Thanks for calling these guys out, Mr. Murray. Seriously, thanks for seizing this very public opportunity to remind them that it's time to put on their big boy pants and start actually telling us why they think they should be mayor.
Thanks for calling these guys out, Mr. Murray. Seriously, thanks for seizing this very public opportunity to remind them that it's time to put on their big boy pants and start actually telling us why they think they should be mayor, beyond "I don't want a tunnel" and "I have a lot of money".
@8 - by not building a $4.2 billion dollar deep bore tunnel (before cost overruns) we have a chance to continue funding things such as social services, transit, libraries, senior services, etc. Anybody else notice *all* the libraries in the city are closed this week? If we build a tunnel, get used to it.
@13 - yes, that's what he means. what he doesn't say is that Seattle voted for a monorail a bunch of times and he killed it. then Seattle voted against a tunnel and he put together a deal for one. we could all have been "working together" on surface/transit for the last couple years . . .
I agree with DOUG. @14. Selfish is a cheap shot. And kinda out of nowhere.
Speaking as a transit supporter, I trust Ed Murray about as much as I trust America's health-insurance companies. He keeps putting himself out there as this great champion of transit, he keeps aligning himself with people like John Stanton who are sworn to kill light rail at all costs, he keeps doing things to undermine transit, and then he keeps saying, "No, you don't understand what I'm trying to do. Trust me, I'm transit's biggest defender in Olympia."
Do a little search some time on the Web or just on Slog for:
"Ed Murray" "Sound Transit"
or
"Ed Murray" "John Stanton"
You'd have to be a full-time Olympia insider to know whether Ed Murray is full of shit or if the glass is just half-full of shit.
Aside from just wanting to take a moment to badmouth Ed Murray, my relevant point is that the only reason Ed Murray ever seemed like this white knight riding to the rescue was the fact that--unlike Greg Nickels, Mike McGinn, and Joe Mallahan--he wasn't running for mayor.
McGinn would be shoo-in for mayor if he wasn't obsessed with the tunnel. If he wants to win, he needs to let it go - otherwise we will be stuck with a simpleton who hasn't voted in ten elections.
Love it!
I'm so fucking tired about the media giving unions more publicity than they deserve. The era of unions is OVER! They need to get over themselves. The IT industry, which is HUGE in this area has no union. How are the wants/needs of that huge voting block represented? They aren't.
Waahhhha waahhhhh I'm a union member and I want my dues to mean something! Wahhhh
Geeeessshhh..
What is hilarious Baconcat, is that the unions have no way to justify supporting either candidate, and McGinn LESS so than Mallahan. If anything... Mallahan will get their grudging support as he is the lesser of two evils to them.
Either way.. .hopefully NEITHER of them pander to union interests. Unions need to be shown in dramatic fashion that their influence has waned in recent years.
My .10
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But I think he would've made a great candidate for Mayor.
Everything he says here is true -- the conversation urgently needs to be elevated to the real issues in this town. The public must demand this -- of the media, and of ourselves.
We also need more than 75,000 people to vote for Mayor in this town! Come on!! How hard is it to mail in a ballot, people???!!
Do your homework, read up from a variety of sources, attend some debates and candidate appearances, ask questions, ponder the answers, mull it over with your friends and family, if you must....and then VOTE.
Now I know why people write in Mickey Mouse and pray a lot about keeping the nation safe in the arms of Jesus.
Are any of these guys real, or just images and PR? Tell the lap dog he can whimper ... said the political boss.
Ed needs a serious lefty, young, energetic, hard campaigning, new greenie, Dem. to file next round. Shake him up a bit.
His failure to move forward just cost him congress. He won't survive the dog fight that will be. A perception now is Ed will roll.
Mickey Mouse, you get my vote.
They vote as an oblate spheroid.
-- Ed Murray
I assume this is McGinn--is he talking about the tunnel?
@13 - yes, that's what he means. what he doesn't say is that Seattle voted for a monorail a bunch of times and he killed it. then Seattle voted against a tunnel and he put together a deal for one. we could all have been "working together" on surface/transit for the last couple years . . .
Speaking as a transit supporter, I trust Ed Murray about as much as I trust America's health-insurance companies. He keeps putting himself out there as this great champion of transit, he keeps aligning himself with people like John Stanton who are sworn to kill light rail at all costs, he keeps doing things to undermine transit, and then he keeps saying, "No, you don't understand what I'm trying to do. Trust me, I'm transit's biggest defender in Olympia."
Do a little search some time on the Web or just on Slog for:
"Ed Murray" "Sound Transit"
or
"Ed Murray" "John Stanton"
You'd have to be a full-time Olympia insider to know whether Ed Murray is full of shit or if the glass is just half-full of shit.
Aside from just wanting to take a moment to badmouth Ed Murray, my relevant point is that the only reason Ed Murray ever seemed like this white knight riding to the rescue was the fact that--unlike Greg Nickels, Mike McGinn, and Joe Mallahan--he wasn't running for mayor.
LOL