Slog tipper Dan Savage called the office from a noisy place in response to this morning's quote from Mayor Greg Nickels, who said he voted for Mike McGinn because McGinn vowed not to block the deep-bore tunnel project. Nickels said, "I hope that he... was being absolutely sincere."

Savage responds, "I hope that McGinn was as sincere about building the tunnel as Nickels was sincere about building the fucking monorail."

As you may recall from November 2002, Greg Nickels said, "Let’s build it!" and "The debate is over, the vote counting is done. Let’s begin." Three years later, however, Nickels announced he was withdrawing street permits for the monorail and renewing the debate by calling for a fifth vote on the project.