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Friday, July 31, 2009

City Judging a Candidate for School Board by Her Penmanship

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:50 AM

We're not publishing our primary endorsement picks until today at 4:55 pm. That's more than five hours away. What will you do until then? How many times will you hit refresh? For now, enjoy the penmanship of one of the candidates for school board. This letter just arrived in the mail. Bethany Jean Clement suggests that the pitched angle of the lines and the erratic use of upper-case Es as lower-case es suggests a crazy mind. "I like it," Lindy West counters.

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Gosh, a handwritten thank-you note written by the actual candidate and not typed up by a staffer looks rather refreshing to me.

Posted by TVDinner

on July 31, 2009 at 11:54 AM

She's totally into you, dude!

Seriously, the hand-written note is a nice gesture. Judge her on that not on the penmanship.

Posted by CommonKnowledge on July 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM

The erratic frequent use of extended hyphens instead of period marks suggests that her tits are made of solid gold, but, like BJC, I am not trained in handwriting analysis, so it doesn't matter what either of us think.

#1 - Spot on.

Posted by Limey Rick on July 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM

hey slog staff: can we get a mayoral straw poll this afternoon before you announce your endorsements?

Posted by montgomery sun on July 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Handwriting analysis is too nebulous a thing to judge a person by.

Could you, rather, post all the candidate's star charts, instead?

Posted by Ackham on July 31, 2009 at 12:06 PM

Superfluous use of quotation marks = school district candidate fail. Next.

Posted by allergictopizza on July 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Handwringing over handwriting? Yet another reason I can never run for public office.

Posted by Anonymous and Proud! on July 31, 2009 at 12:11 PM

I like it, too. She has flair.

Posted by very bad homo on July 31, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Looking at the handwriting, I can say the author would cheerfully unload a full mag of 9mm rounds into wild pit bulls trying to eat small kids.

So the author has my vote.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 31, 2009 at 12:15 PM

oh and straw poll vote for the vegan pit-bull-shooting win.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 31, 2009 at 12:16 PM

"hope you guys support me" or "hope you gays support me"?

Posted by Jesse Vernon on July 31, 2009 at 12:23 PM

@11 That is exactly what I was wondering!

Posted by Take it all in on July 31, 2009 at 12:25 PM

@11 - ha ha ha... "you gays" would be phenomenal.

Posted by Julie in Eugene on July 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM

GOODSPACEGUY for King County executive!!!

his name is GOODSPACEGUY.

I'm guessing it's going to be Bagshaw-Israel-O'Brien for city council, McGinn for mayor, Holland-Vekich for port, and Constantine for executive.

I voted Nickels, but I'm still undecided about county exec, leaning towards Philips.

Posted by Cale on July 31, 2009 at 12:31 PM

also, yes on bag tax (why not a tax now and a ban later? no need to delay!)

and ellington for court of appeals, which is pretty much a no-brainer if you have seen her opponent's campaign.

Posted by Cale on July 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM

I like my plastic bags like I like my women, untaxed and banned in most places.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 31, 2009 at 12:43 PM

She uses the regular, lowercase cursive e when the final stroke on the proceeding letter is at the base of the line. If the final stroke is at the midline, then it's the upper case "epsilon" e. So it's internally consistent. And yeah, I think it is gays. Look at the u in "you" versus the first and second a's in "campaign."

Posted by Another Andrew on July 31, 2009 at 12:44 PM

I'm glad she took the time to send a handwritten note. And I dig the flow of her handwriting--straight lines, fairly uniform letters, and I'm partial to the big loops on the G and Y and the way she writes her S and F.

All that said, look at her crazy Ps. 7 of them, and maybe 2 are similar. They overlap and overwhelm the words. Subtle, though. I bet she'd be surprisingly great in a bar fight.

Posted by snakes on July 31, 2009 at 5:04 PM