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union shop
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thats 10 on dan from you goldy.
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Fucking typical fanboy douchebag spin
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ah, i feel better now. i don't mess around with the house staff goldy.
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Much less likely. Fuck the Sonics.
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It will alienate his young, too-cool-for-team-sports base. Women voters are as a whole ambivalent at best. And it's unclear how much credit basketball lovers will give him (or how much he deserves) for this.

Best case scenario - he's knocked out of the primary with 11% of the vote compared to 8%. Ed Murray is going to be our next mayor.
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It's his killing of bin Laden.
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triv = tiger woods
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Big win for McGinn?

So a guy who was supposedly the Mayor for the neighborhoods fails to achieve the goal of his single issue candidacy and instead throws his lot in with the Downtown Syndicate and the Billionerds with an even more congestion producing centrist project and calls it "success"?
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Come on liberals! Sign those petitions, lets block the Sonics from returning and earn the scorn of moderate democrats everywhere!
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@9 Pissed off because they won't play in the Tacoma Dome?
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Nicely put, and it's a good test of the challengers. Whoever manages an effective counter will be the one to watch.

We should bear in mind, too, that this particular mayor has all the skills to be his own undoing on this. His self-righteousness remains keen, and it's always on the prowl for creative new ways to entice him into burning his political capital. Could be fun.
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Is it a sure thing that they will be the Supersonics? Personally, I think they should retain the Kings name retroactively in honor of MLK, just as the county did. Or is it disrespectful to name something as trivial as a sports team after such an honorable man?
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Wayne LaPierre could endorse McGinn and Goldy would say "Big Win!".

I enjoy your writing most of the time, Goldy, but I would hope you learned something from your unconditional Darcy Burner shill days.
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I'm indifferent to the return of the Sonics, and I'm indifferent to McGinn. I don't think he's a terrible mayor, but I don't think he's a particularly good one either.

But I agree with Goldy that the Sonics narrative will undoubtedly help him in the election. It will bump his approval rating up a few points, for sure. And even though I'm indifferent to the Sonics, I think the stadium deal was actually a pretty good deal for the city--certainly far better than the shitty deal the previous Sonics owners were trying to blackmail us with.
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lets be real here, if this hansen guy is gonna just about pay off the entire city to make this happen, then he must a (super) sonics fan. so give them the old uniforms too and union shop too. and nhl hockey too and wnba too. goldy, union shop. watch those ballmer alec guys, they don't like that shit.
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Barf. Yea, our ham-handed mayor has done nothing to reform SPD and has been a political jackass for most of his term but FUCK YEAH BASKETBALL. if Seattle reelects this dolt, they truly get the mayor they deserve.
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I'm not a sports fan, but it's undeniable that the Sonics and Storm Foundation helps kids. Having Sonics Basketball Camp back in full swing among the other benefits sure wont hurt the Mayor either. The Foundation is a tremendous side benefit for our city.
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17: he ain't getting reelected, tim keck and slog just work for mike mcginn now. i think its totally corrupt too, but i also don't live there either. go supersonikings!

http://seattletimes.com/html/pacificnw/2…
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Goldy, McGinn and Tim Burgess share this.
McGinn, an apparent "idea man" nearly bungled this thing from the word go.

Regardless, having an opening night roughly a week before the election will make it difficult for Peter Steinbrueck to straddle that pre-election fence the way McGinn did with the tunnel

Steinbrueck's paid gigs will come back as a string of obstructionist positions supported by a lobbyist.
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How does bringing back the Sonics really help Seattle with it's long term problems? The contruction jobs will only be temporary then to be replaced with low wage concession stand jobs during games. And study after study has shown that not a single stadium built in the past 30 years has EVER created any substantial economic growth in any of the cities they have been built in.

And expect the cost overruns to be covered by the tax payers. And don't worry there are ALWAYS cost overruns on stadium projects.
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The Seattle Times will work to make people think Burgess did this. Today's story gives Burgess the first word with mention in 5 of the first 10 paragraphs. Later they even print 3 paragraphs of Dow Constantine's statement. McGinn isn't mentioned until the 21st paragraph and it's only 1 graph.
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22: burgess is darth vader f that guy he is evil.
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i mean to say i agree with you there up there. but i can't see what you wrote its hidden.
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I'd rather have the kind of Sonics that serve chili dogs.
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A success for Goldy's pandering and little else.

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