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Thursday, June 18, 2009

City Snow's Over

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM

The city's Ethics and Elections Commission (SEEC) says it won't be filing ethics violation charges following an investigation into allegations that some city officials received preferential plow treatment during Snowpocalyspe 2008.

According to the SEEC's report, investigators interviewed plow drivers and examined 1,000 reports on plow routes, and found "no evidence that Mayor [Greg] Nickels...or any other elected officials misused their official positions to secure special treatment from [the Seattle Department of Transportation] during the storm response."

Although a plow driver told investigators that former city transportation manager Paul Jackson had informed drivers that clearing streets in front of the mayor, deputy mayor and SDOT director's homes in West Seattle was in their "best interests" and would "make [them] all look better," the report says, the SEEC did not find enough corroborating evidence to charge Jackson with an ethics violation.

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Or, "Snowpocalypse".

Posted by Oi. on June 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM

"former city transportation manager" is probably an appropriate punishment for that fat ass.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM

but wait... how are we supposed to trash Nickels for this now?

dangit.

Posted by yay! leftovers on June 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM

I want a snow cone.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM

Doesn't all management work to impress? And, who better to impress than your own boss? Seriously, that quote from the driver sounds so much like every job I have ever had.

Posted by TheMisanthrope on June 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Still wrong. Maybe "Schnopocalypth?"

Posted by JohnnyTeeth on June 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM

I expect apologies from the Seattle media for reporting wrongly on this issue is 5...4...3...2 .. oh wait that will never happen.

Posted by hmmmm... on June 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM

When was Jackson fired. The last I read he resigned but kept his $107,000 salary. His new job hadn't been decided on.

SDOT is corrupt.

Posted by abc on June 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM

Haha, like an EEC run by the very civic officials the accusations implicated was going to find them guilty.

The EEC is a weak, pathetic attempt at accountability. No one gets rung up for anything legitimate, ever.

Stay tuned for next winter, when the exact same thing will happen!

Posted by Gomez

on June 19, 2009 at 12:31 AM

Gomez -

Go back to the basement.

This was the 100 year freak winter.

You will be long dead before it happens again, so will I.

Giant tempest in the no story box.

Posted by Aarondia on June 19, 2009 at 7:46 AM