Posted Fri, Mar 16, 9:13 a.m.

"Tziko"? No offense, but a one-second google or really any awareness of the Seattle public education scene would have told you it's Dziko.

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 4:38 p.m.

RE: Are you asking me?: It doesn't matter what consultants think - they're not making the allegations. Do you believe that our fellow citizens are so gullible and impressionable as to be duped into voting for candidates based on a flyer in their mailbox? As far as I can see, ...

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 4:15 p.m.

RE: Lilly's links: I not only think, I know that you give "the establishment" far too much credit for the ability to either mobilize some movement or "strategically place" editorials (again, as if to trick the voters into something they weren't otherwise moving toward on their own.) For one thing, ...

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 3:53 p.m.

RE: Buying votes: when patricia stambor says the reason for the sweep (which was accomplished by individual voters voting) was the wide disparity in campaign contributions, what is she saying if not that candidates with a lot of money were able to make more voters vote for them? And please ...

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 3:44 p.m.

RE: How big is your community?: 1) It's not my community - I'm not a member 2) I have no idea what the membership is. 3) Not sure how this is relevant to my correcting two errors in your description of them.

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 3:38 p.m.

RE: endorsements: Again I ask - what is it you're saying about voters' intelligence when you say they can't distinquish between a PTA leader speaking as an individual or for the group?

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 12:37 p.m.

More bogeymen: Now patricia stambor calls out "quiet money" and CPPS (which, by the way is "Communities and Parents for Public Schools", not "Concerned Parents..." and was founded in May 2005 by parents from schools slated for closure, not with the grant from the Gates Foundation which only came 2 ...

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 9:27 a.m.

How are voters bought with big money?: The discussion about large donations never seems to distinuish clearly between their effect on voters and their potential effect on the candidate-recipients. I can understand the fear and suspicion about the latter, but I can never understand how the activist/dissident voices who decry ...

Posted Wed, Nov 7, 9:22 a.m.

Where's the data?: I was very close to one of this season's campaigns, and as a neophyte was fascinated by all of the conventional wisdom thrown around by the campaign consultants and handlers...with no data that I could see or even discussion about how one might *get* (or have gotten) ...

Posted Tue, Nov 6, 6:48 a.m.

Are you not oversimplifying, too?: Refreshing to hear someone who understands the credit Raj Manhas deserves (along with his former CFO and other senior staff) for returning the district to financial stability, and you sound like a thoughtful voter, but aren't you over=simplifying by thinking one "adult" board member (aka ...