Poor Mayor Mike: Can't please anyone

[DBP]

Welcome to Seattle, dude.

Turns out this really was your city after all.

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Still reeling from his third and final Viaduct Tunnel rebuke, Mayor McGinn was desperately looking for something to salvage his legacy, a way to restyle himself as Mr. Can-do, instead of Mr. Won’t-do-and-you-can’t-make-me.

Then along comes a stadium proposal. And best of all, it’s going to pay for itself.

And if it doesn’t, what the heck? At least the taxpayers won’t have to.

This could be just the ticket, thought Mike.

But wait. What’s this?

The Port’s agin it?

The Mariners are agin it?

Even the Times are agin it?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018264119_citygrowth23m.html

All still in favor: vote Aye. (Yi-yi!)

 

Oh well. See you at the primaries, guy.

 

 

      Or maybe not.

 

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[JanS]

I’m thinkin’ that if Mayor Mike was a smart man, he’d tell all those folks who want him to run again to go jump…and go back to lawyerin’….

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[smokeycretin9]

The only reason the Mariners are against it, is they are fighting for sports fan’s dollars.

People only have so much time and money to see a sporting event. It costs somewhere in the $200-$300 range for a family of four including parking, food, and maybe a souveneir at a game.

If basketball comes, more choices, less money to go around.

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[kootchman]

Stop it! He IS a man of action. It took over 100 years, but we finally have green boxes painted on streets. No other mayor has managed to do so. I think they are for bicycles… but no one seems to know.

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[redblack]

gee, DP. i have nothing in common – politically or otherwise – with the port, the mariners, or (especially) the times.

sounds like the mayor is a lot like me.

and maybe the mariners regret putting that fiasco of a corporate welfare eyesore at first and atlantic. i sure do.

me? i would tell the california hedge fund manager to look a little farther south and get that traffic the hell away from downtown SR99.

beyond that, if it pays for itself, then let the capitalism flow.

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[kootchman]

Burien!

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[JanS]

South Park !

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[KatherineL]

How about Everett? They wanted NASCAR up there; let them build a basketball stadium instead. Let some other county pay for it when the it-pays-for-itself doesn’t.

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[JoB]

Mayor McGinn’s compassion has allowed Nickelsville to become a functioning community.

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[maplesyrup]

Interesting how the Mariners deal came at a much larger cost to the public but they’re against this deal.

Perhaps their efforts would be better spent putting a decent team on the field.

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[kootchman]

Got a city job offer JoB?

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[JanS]

fer cripes sake…JoB is right…McGinn looking the other way has allowed this illegal tent city to flourish, continue, help lots of people. You have a problem with that, Kootch?

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[DBP]

>>Mayor McGinn’s compassion has allowed Nickelsville to become a functioning community.

So, you get compasssion points just for not tearing down homeless people’s tents and shacks and telling them to move along?

Oh all right. Let’s be generous. Let’s forget about the fact that the City has actually been closing indoor shelters, threatening to shut down OSL, and so on.

Let’s give McGinn a brownie point for not shutting down Nickelsville.

In the meantime, we’re still waiting for him to show some leadership on getting NV water and electric, and coming up with a plan for a better place to stay. Either that or make the current place permanent.

What’s the hold-up? That should be a bigger priority than a sports stadium.

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[munchkin22]

I’m with DBP on this one. Not a sports fan but a big fan of humanity and helping those less fortunate than the rest of us.

It wouldn’t have been politically expedient for the mayor to boot the NV’rs out, but I hear he showed up down there unannounced a while back without the media. Good on him.

It was said that the water/sewer hookup would have come to $36,000. Surely the city has that in their petty change drawer. Look how much positive pr that would have created as a humanitarian gesture.

I can allow him a point for turning a half blind eye at NV.

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[kootchman]

Perfect JaN… that’s the new definition of compassion… just look the other way? And you don’t like my politics? That’s it? That’s all we have to do? I’ll pass that along to the TEA Party forming committee… all we need to pass liberal muster is “just look the other way”! How cool is that! That’s the new bumper sticker…

Print up the new McSchwinn bumper stickers and yard signs..

Just look the other way – Vote for Mike

That’s a problem solver I’m in. (DBP I agree with you on this one…)

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[casaboba]

Back to the Topic… Maybe there’s a “learning curve” to being Mayor? Maybe even President? We’ll know in five months…

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[smokeycretin9]

Maybe some more bike lanes would fix the problem.

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[JanS]

aw, geez, Kootch…that’s not what I meant, and you damned well know it. Mayor Mike could have just kicked NV out, and you damned well know that too. Do I like his brand of politics? NO…I thought both mayoral candidates last election did not deserve to be there. Guess we’ll never know what the previous guy would have done, huh. But…don’t put words in my mouth, thank you very much.

Do I think more could be done for NV? Damned straight. Water, electricity, recognized as a tent city legally…and left alone. Get off my back, won’t you?

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[Ken]

My vote for McGinn went just as I forecast. I voted for the man least likely to be able to implement any of his crazy policies and do enough damage to the city. His right leaning opponent had not pissed off enough of the cities other policy makers to be truly ineffective. Unless a competent and semi-progressive challenger shows up to challenge, I will vote for him again.

Not managing to screw over NV is more a case of picking his battles and spotting how much ink would be spilled by opponents.

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[JoB]

DBP..

you seem to forget that the previous mayor had them moving 17 times in 3 years…

they now have simple sturdy sleeping structures popping up because they have been in one place long enough to make them feasible

there are 5 more planned for this month by 3 different donor groups

and every one of those simple sturdy sleeping structures that go up is a visible reminder to the city’s politicians that it’s citizens are investing in Nickelsville…

as is the funding of those honeybuckets and garbage by private donation.

yes, there is much more that can and should be done

including moving this community to a site that would be more conducive to success

but if you put this one decision into the incremental process that is political progress…

it’s a doozy.

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[kootchman]

Nope.. just trying to “look the other way” as an affirmative social policy.

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