Monday, November 23, 2009
City Mayor-Elect McGinn to Lead Three Town Halls
Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Mike McGinn will hold three town halls—one in south Seattle, one in the Central District, and one near Northgate—before taking over the mayor's office in January. In a pivot from his campaign stump speeches, McGinn says he's intent on listening to residents about what they want. "I just want to know how we build trust in government and how we built a strong team," McGinn says. "I want to synthesize that information and act on it."
Two town halls are confirmed:
Monday, November 30
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Northgate Community Center gymnasium
10510 5th Ave Northeast
Tuesday, December 1
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
104 17th Ave South (17th Ave. & E. Yesler Way)
A third town hall in South Seattle is tentatively schedule for December 2; more details when they're available.
After talking to McGinn about his ideas for light rail and the upcoming legislative session, I asked him what it's like to be the mayor-elect, going from a campaign fueled by phone bankers to the the mayor elect on 60th floor of the Seattle Municipal Tower. "The first day we showed up ... it felt a little lonely," McGinn says. "The office was always packed with people and had a lot of energy end excitement, and then it was just me and a few transition staff heading up to a rather sterile office space."
"Campaigns are always more intense because of the deadlines," McGinn says. In the last few weeks, McGinn has built a team of 70 ambassadors that he's tasked with reaching out to communities and neighborhoods. "It’s nice to be in situation to talk about how do we tackle the big issues? How do we organize ourselves to get the resources of government pointing in the right direction?" After months of campaigning, McGinn says, he is "enjoying being back in problem-solving mode that isn't about getting the most votes, but actually trying to create change."
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OH NO HE MIGHT HAVE TO INTERACT WITH A MEMBER OF THE FQTBLG COMMUNITY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT PUT HIM IN OFFICE
MCGINN IS JUST ANOTHER OBAMA FOISTED OFF ON SELF-ACTUALIZED QUEERS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY TO FIND THAT THEY THROW US UNDER THE BUS
WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THAT THE STRANGER ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS ARE LIKE POISON AND THAT DAN SAVAGE IS JUST A LACKEY FOR THE ANTI QUEER MOVEMENT
ITS JUST AS WELL MCGINN & CO WOULD JUST POLLUTE SACRED QUEEN SPACE AND THE YUPPIES ARE DOING THAT ALREADY
OH, SO WE SHOULD SETTLE FOR THE BACK OF THE BUS RATHER THAN UNDER IT?
UNLESS YOU CAN PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE FQTBLG COMMUNITY TO GET THERE AND THEN BACK TO OUR HOMESPACE AKA CAPITOL HILL WE'RE NOT INTERESTED.
GAYS BASH BACK!
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Everyone else will be using trolleys, light rail, and monorail.
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But after the dozens of town halls McGinn held during the campaign, you want him to hit every single fucking neighborhood now?
Complain about something real.
Video, $100.00 or more - on the table - from thousands and thousands, maybe millions worldwide.
Could make Hump look like the small time Renton style shit it is.
Holden, are your ready ... of course .. Domenic is a classic cocksucker guy.
Mr. Mayor Mc Ginn ... can you dig it? For charity.
(if you will both smoke a giant hand rolled joint on camera, red haired local green bud, wow, before the sex, the bid goes WAY up - $300.00?? Or more)
Consider, by comparison a dozen Town Snore Meetings is nothing.
There are plenty of gays who don't just visit, but LIVE in the Central District. That gentrification going on -- a big part of that is gays buying up houses.
I too am disappointed with Obama's moves on gay rights, and I do expect a lot of McGinn. But I've never been one to believe that my identity and my needs as a queer man subsume everything else I care about -- the environment, an economy that puts people over profits, and yes, a City where the mayor pays attention to people of color.
Gays buying houses?
You are full of shit. I lived in the CD up to several months ago for years.
The old house buyers are middle class hets with kids.
And the term gentrification is over used in the negative.Those great old houses worked for the sellers, taking checks of 400,000. home after closing - and the buyers who fix them up and redo all the essential systems, extending functional life for 70 years or more, which in most cases is sorely needed.
You need to get off the gays ruining my neighborhood - gay men long ago started buying in West Seattle and Ballard.... not the CD. Sorry. Lesbians in Madison Valley, Wallingford and Columbia City.
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(gasp)
Oh, wait, there have been some for ... hmm ... about 20 some years now, at least as far as I can recall.
It's just like him to create a distraction of "public input". Get to work, Mike. If you don't know what's wrong, let's do a recall. He's very hierarchically oriented despite his "open source" stuff and "grassroots" support. Top down. That's Mike.
Mike, what the heck is the primary function of government in a democracy. That is your charge. Forget your distractions.
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