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      <title>Comments On: County Switching Horses and Raising Taxes?
    
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      <![CDATA[Something in the headline about raising taxes? Where is that in the story?
        
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      <![CDATA[@6 - i've seen both - it's not the same person, but that's an excellent question - wish there was some place with reporters that could figure that out for us and write an amusing article about it ...
        
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      <![CDATA[All because they refuse to cut police/jail money during a down economy - half of the budget.<br />
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      <![CDATA[if he's related to that douche michael medved i'm not going to vote for him.
        
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      <![CDATA[Appointing someone to a position that they are planning to run for makes them the incumbent and gives them a major edge in the race. It's a matter of whether you want to give the King County Council the power to annoint a chosen candidate or not.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ 2) The exclusion of appointees running for the position is a new policy--a policy that works fine in the case of Triplett but seems seriously flawed when it requires kicking out the person who knows how to run the office.
        
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      <![CDATA[Omitted the word "allegedly" from my post. Let the record show it's been inserted here.
        
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      <![CDATA["when Ron Sims left his post as the King County Executive, the council looked for a new candidate and picked—of course—his former chief of staff, Kurt Triplett."<br />
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      <![CDATA[Medved actively took part in a conspiracy to hide Noble's alcoholism from the King County Council and the taxpayers. He deserved to be fired.
        
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