As has been widely reported at Publicola, the P-I and elsewhere, the putatively nonpartisan King County Council deadlocked last night along partisan lines as they struggled to name a replacement to fill Dow Constantine’s vacated seat through the end of 2010.
Which raises a question. Were the Municipal League, [...]
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"Weird, Weird, Weird": Last night, the King County Council failed to fill the spot left vacant by Dow Constantine, who was elected King County Executive last month - the West Seattle Blog was live-blogging the meeting that eventually resulted in a deadlock.
Not Again: [...]
For the proper price this holiday season you can purchase 45 minutes of city-shaking time with incoming mayor Mike McGinn. (During which time you shall get to drink with—and have your political t-shirt wardrobe helped by—hizzoner. What an honor!) Go ahead, spend the' [...]
The Seattle P-I’s Chris Grygiel tells it like it is:
How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month’s King County executive’s race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs. Constantine’s strong showing in what, until [...]
A reader writes in a letter:
I have watched with a great deal of horror through the years how The Stranger tells people how to vote and how people do what The Stranger says and get themselves in worse mess than before.
Dow Constantine is even more dangerous to this city than [...]
Carl has already thoroughly fisked it over at EFFin’ Unsound (yes, I know Carl, you hate the etymology of the term, but find me a better word that describes what you do), still, I just couldn’t let this Seattle Times editorial pass without comment.
METROPOLITAN King County Council members [...]
Good job, voters. You almost had this:
Eli Sanders
Text of Constantine's inauguration speech appears after the jump.
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[...]Dow Constantine is being sworn in as King County Executive about now, leaving a vacancy on the King County Council. Eleven people—including known homosexual and confirmed state senator, Joe McDermott—have thrown their hat into the ring:
Jan Drago—A member of the Seattle City Council who is leaving the Council this [...]
At 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, the canvassing board for King County Elections will meet to certify the election. Just seven hours later, Dow Constantine will be sworn in as the next county executive. (Because he is replacing an interim executive, he doesn't wait until the new year like other recently elected' [...]
Constantine can move quickly because he doesn't face a huge learning curve.
Unlike the dingbat they endorsed.
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