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News & ArtsFriday, October 9, 2009
City Seattle Times Endorses Pete Holmes
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM
They backed Pete Holmes for city attorney earlier this year, and they mean it:
We are for disclosure of public documents, so we can inform our readers, and for the protection of private documents such as our reporters' notes, so that sources will trust us. We have fought with Carr over both of these things, and we know his attitude about them.The public should care about this, and not only because they rely on newspapers. Most requests for public documents come from the public. Their access is crucial in holding government officials accountable — and their access has been limited by Carr. [...]
Holmes does bring the risks of the unknown. But Seattle voters have decided to embrace the risk of an untested mayor. They will also have a new police chief. It's an opportune time to hire themselves a new city attorney — one who promises to work for them.
Tip from Will in Seattle.
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