2015 I won by only 38 votes in D1!

Op-Ed: Opioid Treatment Nurse Shares Why They Support Katie Wilson » The Urbanist # An opioid treatment nurse shares why they support Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor and trust her to address interlinked crises around housing, homelessness, and opiate addiction.

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Yes, more succinct than I was, but yes that’s what he seems to have said.

The written rules you have posted are not consistent with how Wayne is quoted describing them in PubliCola. And to not be in violation under the actual rules we’d have to believe that the 4 am day-after election message to department directors wasn’t for the purpose of supporting the campaign.

PubliCola: “McIntyre’s initial request ‘doesn’t expressly mention it’s for campaign purposes, so I don’t think it’s an improper use of city resources,’ Barnett said.” This seems to say Markham had to indicate, in the message, the intent to violate the code for it to be a violation of the code.

A complaint should be heard by the SEEC on the use of city resources to assist a campaign. It should not only lie with Wayne’s interpretation IMO.

NYC Congressman Jamaal Bowman is in Seattle stumping for Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

He gave a fiery speech arguing Wilson represented hope and the future of the Democratic Party.

City Official Used Internal Teams Chat to Solicit Department Directors' Contact Info on Behalf of Harrell Campaign - PubliCola At least 21 department directors gave OED Director Markham McIntyre their contact information, which he used to solicit support for…

City Official Used Internal Teams Chat to Solicit Department Directors’ Contact Info on Behalf of Harrell Campaign

At least 21 department directors gave OED Director Markham McIntyre their contact information, which he used to solicit support for their boss’s campaign.
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The thing that always gets me is that every single metric ahead of the Civil War showed that the South was going to get wrecked. Even after Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta…they still kept fighting. Bread riots in 1863: Still fighting. Even in the ruins, they blamed the North, not themselves.

Brilliant

How can this be interpreted that to be a violation, the intent must be stated?

“may not ask a city employee to be on a mailing list, *if the mailing list will be used to solicit campaign contributions*”…

NOT “if it is disclosed that the mailing list will be used for…”

I don't think this is what people understood Harrell's reparations proposal to be. I think he suggested this was going to be new money dedicated to the descendants of Black enslaved people. Instead, it could literally be just tacking the word "reparations" onto something they're already doing.

Wtf????

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‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco The tech billionaire's comments put the longtime Democratic ally at odds with city and state leaders.

@mbenioff.bsky.social #salesforce There really is no such thing as a good billionaire- so much for your being one of the good guys. So disappointed.

@seattletimes I predict that when the new contract is announced your edboard will praise everyone for fixing the CARE problems but you won’t ask why no one made SPD officers do what is was they were already supposed to be doing for all of 2024. You won’t ask whose lives could have been helped.

Seattle officers ‘undermining’ city’s police alternative, report says The CARE team has become a darling both inside City Hall and among candidates for office, but Seattle police often aren't using this resource, records show.

@seattletimes.com why do you mischaracterize Katie Wilson in your opinion piece today? Her debate response (and press release she sent out) is clearly responding to this article which is about officers not complying with the terms of their current contract. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Infuriating!

As more evidence of what I promised @SeattleTimes editorial page reinforces false narrative from that of @DavidKroman’s article. @KatieWilson is calling out police for failing to fulfill current contract obligations (as reported by @DavidKroman).

“In its ruling, the appeals court described the attorney-fee calculation as ‘irregular’ and raised the ‘possibility that class counsel were accepting an excessive fee’ at the expense of pushing for a better deal for the Boeing employees.”

‘We represented people who didn’t want to see that settlement go through because it was thought the attorneys were taking far too much money,’ said Alan Epstein, a Philadelphia attorney who objected to the settlement on behalf of about 2,000 workers.”

“But that deal was overturned by an appeals court in 2002, which sided with a group of dissenting Boeing employees who described the deal as unfair, in part because of the $3.8 million in attorney’s fees it awarded to Harrell’s firm.”

He evokes the Boeing lawsuit as he did in 2021. The result was a total victory for Boeing. From the Times: “In 1999, a federal judge approved a $15 million settlement of the case, in which Boeing also agreed to change promotion policies and strengthen internal discrimination investigations.”

When the new contract comes out the fanfare will be “oh look CARE is fixed.” I’m glad that you will remember that police leveraged their intransigence in getting people the help they need for higher wages.

We know that there’s a new contract coming that may remove many of the barriers to CARE. I’m aghast that this sort of intransigence at SPD has been tolerated for the last year and a half. How many more people could have been helped?

Thank you for making it officers aren’t using the limited flexibility in the current contract.

“We wasted at minimum 100 police hours a day dispatching police to those calls that could have been better handled by another unit,” Barden said. “And if we want a safe city, this simply has to change.”

The real question is why has officer intransigence under the current contract been allowed by Chief & Mayor for the last 1-1/2 years, with consequences for real people CARE (not police) should be serving.

Why did the OIG report fail to address the issues in the Seattle Times article? This feels like a set up for the new contract to “save the day.”

I feel like too many people commenting on this story didn’t read it. The rooms were held empty because the Deputy Mayor said the program outcomes were too low. The program outcomes are higher than any other program.