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Monday, October 5, 2009

Politics / City Overheard in the Office (During an Endorsement Meeting Last Week)

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM

Richard Conlin: "I wrote the ordinance that legalized goats."

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My Pastor told me R71 would allow perverts to marry goats.

Posted by Overheard in Church Parking lot on October 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Quick! Someone call Marlee Ginter -- she needs to cover this.

Posted by Cracker Jack on October 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM

the goat promoter guy at the tilth festival knew that there was a goat ordinance but didn't know the details. i think it just adds goats the category of allowable domestic animals, which is now dogs, cats, potbellied pigs, and goats. maximum 3 of any combo (except only 1 pig, max.) on a 5000 SF lot.

Posted by Max Solomon on October 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM

YAY for Richard Conlin! His opposition was/is a really underhanded Bitch who hates animals in general.
Yay for goats!

Posted by julie russell

on October 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM

And he wrote the bag tax which was bagged and buried by voters ... Richard has little skill on important laws ... he did help kill the mono rail ... hear that? True ... vote the new guy, David Ginsberg.

Posted by Coffee Guy on October 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM

@5, from an engineer's perspective the "mono rail" deserved to die, if i can assume you mean the proposed expansion of the current Seattle center to downtown line. Monorails are unable to travel up and down inclines due to their tire-drive, and are therefore a bad choice for a city covered in hills. Also i think your "little skill on important laws" statement is unfair. Richard has done plenty of good things for the city. Take, for example, all the bicycle infrastructure being added to the city in the past few years. That was largely his doing.

Posted by The Striking Viking on October 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Marlee Ginter IS a goat.

Posted by Joe M on October 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Infrastructure? what like a few measly bike racks?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM

He should totally try to get "Goathammer Abortion" to play at his inaguration.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on October 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM

@8, expansion of existing bike trails with proposals for addition of several more, as well as all those sharrows and bike lanes that have been added in the past 5ish years (before there were next to none in Seattle), those were all his doing. Sure, one could make arguments against each as simply painting some lines on the ground and not affecting any change, but at least they make for a good arguing point when car-drivers tell you to "get off the road", and encourages more people to bicycle simply by showing them they have every right to be on the road. In short, yes, infrastructure.

Posted by The Striking Viking on October 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM