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jgastil's comments
Posted Thu, Jul 26, 12:31 p.m.
Experience, Vision, and Politics: Experience is a fair issue for any elected office, but this poster's gotta remember: Maleng had no more experience than Scully or Sherman when he took the office. With experience, the question is really, "Do you have enough?" Not "Who has more?" Over-abundance of experience is ...
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 26, 12:19 p.m.
Scully will settle into the job just fine: I share this poster's concern that we get a prosecutor who's excited about the job itself, not the platform it provides for future campaigns. I can say a word to Scully's motivation, as he and I discussed this years before this election. ...
MOREPosted Thu, Jun 7, 5:16 a.m.
RE: Thoughts on the Dem candidate(s) for prosecutor: Touche, Piper. The "Seattle voters" phrase misses the mark, indeed. It didn't carry to work the baggage you imagine, however. I'd say everything I wrote applies to the county as a whole. At the county level, it's quite true that either an ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 6, 2:39 p.m.
RE: Brewster reply: Fair enough--one can have a career develop through successively higher offices. But has Ferguson learned and done all he can on the county council in four short years? Is prosecutor the next logical step? The problem is that this trajectory (staying in office just a few years ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 6, 2:36 p.m.
RE: Thoughts on the Dem candidate(s) for prosecutor: Hardly a slip, my dear comrade. I was simply ruminating about one party's candidates. There is an R in this race, and it is King County, not Seattle. Keep your powder dry. Just havin' a conversation about one party's candidates (note title ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 6, 10:57 a.m.
Thoughts on the Dem candidate(s) for prosecutor: Seattle voters would do well to choose someone who wants to be King County prosecutor as opposed to a candidate who would just use the office as a stepping stone to higher office. We have a very livable city, and that's largely because ...
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