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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Housekeeping Slog Did Some Good This Week

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:22 PM

Susie Tennant at Town Hall informs us that Town Hall was just given $125,000 from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Christopher wrote about this a couple of days ago (and I wrote a followup post yesterday), directing Sloggers to vote for Town Hall in an online competition. Turns out, the top two vote-getters won, and Ms. Tennant thinks that Slog helped push Town Hall over the top. Here's the beginning of the press release:

Recognizing Unprecedented Photo Finish, Town Hall Seattle Also Awarded $125,000

SEATTLE — May 13, 2010 — American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation today announced the Partners in Preservation popular vote winner, the Schooner Adventuress. As the popular vote winner, Sound Experience and the Schooner Adventuress will receive their full grant request of $125,000. In an impressive challenge never seen in the history of the Partners in Preservation program, Town Hall Seattle also staged a comeback resulting in several swings of the tally on the final day of voting. In recognition of the extreme closeness of the competition and the extraordinary efforts of both organizations to rally support, Town Hall Seattle will also receive its full grant request of $125,000.

Good job, Slog! You did a good deed and it didn't even cost you a dime. You should buy yourself an extra drink at Slog Happy tonight.

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Talk about best possible result for Adventuress and Town Hall (TH's people were so sweet with my grumpiness in comments!) - I'm so glad those buccaneers at AmEx dropped the zero-sum bullshit and coughed up!

Posted by gloomy gus on May 13, 2010 at 1:29 PM

Wow. This is a new way for a (pretend) paper to suck ass to politicians. I mean we all know how much the SLOG lovesssss McMayor, but rallying people to get city hall money...geesh...how sleazy and sad.

Posted by mrbombit on May 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM

Town Hall ≠ City Hall.

mrbombit = not so good at knowing stuff.

Posted by HOT PUSSY

on May 13, 2010 at 1:42 PM

@2, I'm guessing you struggled to pass the reading comprehension part of your GED.

Posted by gloomy gus on May 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM

Everyone wins!

Posted by Enigma

on May 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM

This made me so happy when I saw that on their website this morning. What a great thing to do.

Posted by Geni on May 13, 2010 at 3:01 PM

AWESOME!!! I adore town hall, it represents what I love most about Seattle, and why I could never move back home. We had nothing like town hall in my town, and we were certainly the lesser for it. Thank you thank you thank you for promoting this on slog, and for everyone who voted.

Posted by OuterCow on May 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM