"The whole country's going to hell because of that president. I can't imagine what Dow will do to the county. Talk about a Ron Sims clone—dip him in tar and he'd be the same guy!"
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[...]"The whole country's going to hell because of that president. I can't imagine what Dow will do to the county. Talk about a Ron Sims clone—dip him in tar and he'd be the same guy!"
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[...]Addressing his thorough drubbing tonight—at present he's trailing by 23 points—Tom Carr told the SECB, "It is just the way it works. It's democracy. It looks like an anti-incumbent year."
(At least he didn't blame his loss on "bad feng shui," like outgoing Mayor What's-His-Name.)
When the SECB asked what he's going [...]
The SECB just slipped out of the Reject R-71 party at the Holiday Inn in Everett. Larry Stickney's wife was at the door when the SECB arrived, passing out name tags. There were two security guards by the entrances because GAY PEOPLE ARE SCARY AND THEY MIGHT SHOW UP AND [...]
Right now Joe Mallahan has the entire room full of sweating supporters PRAYING for the murdered police officer. (I'm the only one typing/not praying.) AT LEAST TWO FULL MINUTES HAVE GONE BY. And now he said AMEN! And everybody screamed AMEN, too. Except me.
Weird.
I-1033
Yes 43.82%
No 56.18%
Ref 71
Approved 51.90%
Rejected 48.10%
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[...]Is it a bad omen for an election-night party to be watching a reality show called The Biggest Loser?
Yes.
The Max Vekich people are watching The Biggest Loser and he's dragging far behind Tom Albro: 56 to 42-ish. A squeak and a moan went through the crowded suite at the Westin. [...]
It’s a freaking Mallamob here at the fabulous Edgewater Hotel, where the ESCB finds a chic and sweating crowd!
The party is crammed to it’s crannies with hopeful faces and expensive suits and flawless eyewear! The room is a sweating, heaving mass. Everyone who isn’t a bit grey at the temples [...]
"Don't leave until Richard speaks," shouts the lady holding the poster board of election results.
Richard speaks: "Thank you...being on the council...communities...help people...thanks for your hard work...great things or Seattle...great honor..." And we're out.
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[...]ALERT: These are only the results for King County. Still waiting on state numbers.
Initiative Measure No. 1033
YES 34.28%
NO 65.72%
Referendum Measure No. 71
APPROVED 65.91%
REJECTED 34.09%
King County Executive
Susan Hutchison 42.76%
Dow Constantine 57.01%
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[...]Mayor
Mike McGinn 50.03%
Joe Mallahan 48.96%
City Attorney
Pete Holmes 61.56%
Tom Carr 38.24%
Council Position No. 2
Richard Conlin 75.40%
David Ginsberg 24.31%
Council Position No. 4
Sally Bagshaw 68.58%
David Bloom 31.17%
Council Position No. 6
Nick Licata 57.73%
Jessie Israel 42.03%
Council Position No. 8
Mike O'Brien 57.91%
Robert Rosencrantz 41.86%
Proposition No. 1
YES 63.33%
The SECB is having a perfectly lovely time at City Council candidate Mike O'Brien's basement party at the Fremont Abbey, where a crowd of about 40 folks are milling around quaffing high-end microbrews and waiting for the 8:15 results dump.
The crowd seems more hopeful than O'Brien is comfortable with, and [...]
For a gay party, it's kind of lame here at Pravda. Right now all the talk is about the hopeful news from Maine. We are listening to Astrud Gilberto. There is video of Mariah Carey talking to Larry King projected on one wall for some reason. Two cash bars, no [...]
By 8pm, most of the party is seated and eating. Did we mention the cheese puffs? The complimentary wine has run out, but a couple Conlin supporters have bought some more. "This isn't one of the ones I'm sweating," someone says. Everyone seems more concerned about the mayoral race.. A [...]
...and a Republican is on track to win the New Jersey governor race. Bloomberg wins third term as NYC mayor. NYT all over East Coast races.
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[...]As the Stranger Election Control Board fans out over the city...
The SECB's hive mind isn't concerned at the moment with weighty matters of state or the fate of various candidates or boondoggle tunnels and their likely cost overruns or the very real chance that King County voters might elect a' [...]
The race for City Council Position 8 has been particularly nasty, thanks to a well-financed campaign that outspent former Sierra Club chair Mike O'Brien three to one. The opposition campaign for Robert Rosencrantz, a conservative by Seattle standards, was bolstered by support from Forward Seattle, a PAC funded by' [...]
The first numbers are in and they don't look good. Only 19 of 605 precincts have reported, however, so... fingers crossed.
UPDATE: And now with 11 more precincts in... things look bettter. "NO" is ahead—55 to 45. It's going to be a long, long night, people.
UPDATE 2: Rex Wockner is' [...]
JJ McKay, a socialite and gadabout who has been called the "Perle Mesta" (the original "hostess with the mostess") of Seattle is a Mallahan supporter.
(He's a personal friend of Mallahan's and hosted the fundraiser last month where Mallahan wept—some said because he was so [...]
A statement of thanks, released today on the Seattle Police Department's blog:
The family of Officer Tim Brenton would like to thank the community for the tremendous outpouring of support. Even with the tragic loss, Tim’s wife and children are finding solace in the support from the police community, [...]
We haven't been on great terms with King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison but it is election day and she made one stop in Seattle (in University Village, which is sort of like Seattle) on her whirlwind trip from the suburbs and we thought we'd give her [...]
T-Mobile is having a global network outage in honor of Joe Mallahan's impending doom*. If you have T-Mobile, you should be able to dial out, but if anyone tries to call you, they will get the fast busy tone that is the soundtrack of driving efficiencies. T-Mobile's Department of Customer [...]
Slog tipper Terry Nguyen writes:
Hey Stranger,
Thought I'd send along some photos I took of Mike McGinn when he dropped by the UW campus today — and stood next to one of those itinerant everybody's-going-to-Hell preachers — in case you wanted to put them on Slog or something.
He [...]
The internet has completely swallowed up all the time that I used to spend watching television, and for the most part, I don't feel bad about it. Why bother watching the entire, painful 90 minutes of Saturday Night Live when you can just catch the occasional honestly funny five minute' [...]
Whether the bigots who put Referendum 71 on the ballot meant to do this or not, they inspired exactly the sort of gay-rights activism outside Seattle that gay leaders, including State Senator Ed Murray and State Representative Jamie Petersen, have been trying to encourage for years.
“We've had ongoing phone' [...]
"What I'm feeling is caustiously optimistic," said Craig Benjamin on the phone just now. That's the sort of response you usually hear from campaign insiders when you ask them how they're feeling on election day. Actually, that's always the response you hear from campaign insiders when you ask them how [...]
Peek has announced the debut of "the world's first dedicated Twitter device." For $199.99, you can get a device that exists for the sole purpose of posting to Twitter. While the device does allow you to look at photos via TwitPic, you can't actually surf the' [...]
Sketch by Antoine Predock for the Tacoma Art MuseumI remember the days when we arts writers were continuously invited to press conferences that were not about the arts. They were about architecture. The building boom in the Seattle [...]
Really, does "good hair" matter?
The shirt on the woman with the "good hair" is made and sold by marcadeteez.
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[...]... according to some Brit who is, um, encouraging another American Revolution?
One of my more reactionary relatives forwarded this video with the note:
After you have viewed this, pass it on to every one in your address book and ask, that they do the same. This is some serious [...]
The SECB's intrepid news intern hunted down elusive mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan at Green Lake this afternoon, where he was confronting joggers. And when Mallahan gets to speak on his own—without the filter of his campaign staff—he's pretty endearing:
Dow Constantine is after the jump.
Lane Czaplinski described choreographer Diana Szeinblum's work as "Crystal Pite meets Constanza Macras on Percocet." But I think he was just trying to push my buttons—he knows how much I adore the way Pite and Macras weld together high technique, pathos, sex, and fun. [...]
Holy shit. Daily Finance brings disturbing news to us:
On Oct. 28, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited Walmart (WMT) for improperly disposing of nuclear material. The items in question were exit signs that contained tritium, a hydrogen isotope, and Walmart had apparently been lax in its removal [...]
Nate Silver at 538 believes that Washington state voters will approve R-71...
Washington is similar to Maine in certain respects, being white and fairly secular, and since I think the pro-gay marriage side is more likely than not to prevail in Maine, you might think I feel the same way [...]
In The New York Review of Books, Raban's got an essay that reviews the life and work of the famous, irascible, and sometimes blindly vain FSA photographer of Migrant Mother through two biographies and his own readings of the pastoral tradition in America. His conclusion hits [...]
Revel Smith at Real Change writes, "Nickelsville's amicable 5-week stay at Keystone Congregational Church ends tomorrow." The 30 residents of Nickelsville—it's a small town—will be moving to New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, she says. "The outdoor lots connected to the church can accommodate 50 to 100 people."
But since Mayor [...]
I'm a 22-year-old bi guy with a preference for males. My last relationship was with a female with whom I've stayed friends. Since we broke up we've been hooking up maybe once a month. The first two times she said she didn't want to hook up anymore, but she kept [...]
Students at the University of Richmond are mad as hell about Robert Crumb's comics, and they're not going to take it any more. Student Timothy Patterson is horrified:
“[The] book features a number of appalling depictions, such as the raping of a little girl, forced oral sex with a woman' [...]
Pete Holmes, who is running against two-term incumbent City Attorney Tom Carr, says, “I feel optimistic.” And he should. The Seattle Times endorsed Holmes, as did The Stranger and nearly every Democratic district organization in the city (except in Carr’s home turf of West Seattle). “It sure seems like things [...]
Have you been to Citizen in lower Queen Anne yet? It is adorable, and the crepes are pretty good, and the wine is insanely cheap. More here.
Also, Chef Nordo Lefesczki—or at least someone who bothered to register as such—has chimed in over in the comments on the controversial [...]
The war on terror has been extended to the animal kingdom:
A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants had assault rifles but [...]
Spring Design, the creators of the upcoming Alex Reader, are suing Barnes & Noble. Spring Design claims that they showed the Alex to Barnes & Noble under a nondisclosure agreement, and that Barnes & Noble copied significant characteristics of the Alex reader for their new e-book, the Nook. [...]
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Scott Whiteaker, a spokesman for the campaign to stop Eyman's pernicious Initiative 1033, points out that it mirrors Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). That measure devastated Colorado's funding for education, heath care, vaccines, [...]
E.S.
There's currently a large police response near 11th and Pike for a traffic stop involving a car that fits the description of the car used in Saturday's murder of officer Timothy Brenton. A Stranger intern saw the driver of the car (a beat-up Chevy Monza) being [...]
Dow Constantine, King County Executive candidate and the SECB's biggest crush, is gesticulating at traffic in West Seattle with a cadre of sign-waving supporters—State Senator Joe McDermott (D-34), campaign manager, girlfriend, and volunteers—while scads more volunteers are phone-banking at his office. "We raised a lot of money" [...]
Holy smoke!Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called “primitive man” and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 100. All of this time, all of these years, I thought he died around the time [...]
The good people of King County elections would still love for you to cast your vote, and have made it pretty easy, and (lucky you) there is no one in line at the "accessible voting" location inside Union Street Station at 401 S. Jackson Street.
I [...]
Seattle filmmaker Len Davis thinks you should vote today. So do the hundreds of employees here at Lunchtime Quickie*.
*By hundreds, I mean me. VOTE!
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[...]
The fact in the subject line was brought to my attention by Slog tipper Jake, who found a Craigslist call for Club Z! Teachers/Tutors Needed $16-$20/hr.
Here's the Eastside's Club Z. And here's Seattle's Club Z. (And here's Christopher Frizzelle's [...]
Brian GeohaganSlog Tipper Brian wanted to share a sticker that he saw on the street. I cannot express how much I love this paranoid, sign-holding cartoon cat.
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[...]A Roman Catholic priest has been showing up outside a Planned Parenthood office in full vestments—where he passes the time yelling at staff, visitors and the volunteers—for two years. It turns out that the Rev. Virgil Bradley Tetherow, or "Father Gabriel" as he's known, has a particular interest in [...]
This is how we do it:
Details are sketchy, but numerous witnesses report that veteran feature editor Henry Allen punched out feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia on Friday. The fracas took place in sight of [Washington] Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli’s office. Brauchli rushed to separate the two.
It should be noted [...]
Film
'Good Hair'The most enjoyable thing about Good Hair is not its (almost uncritical) exploration of the booming, recession-proof black-hair economy but its narrative of four hairstylists who are preparing to compete at the annual International Hair Show in Atlanta. Two of the hairstylists are black [...]
Usually, bookstores take Election Night off, but there are a ton of readings tonight, including a book about murder and honor at Elliott Bay Book Company, a book about a long trek home at University Book Store, a discussion about, er, "fierce" leadership at the Pan Pacific [...]
A few stray photos on a computer trips up the Scranton branch of the Catholic church...
A northeastern Pennsylvania priest has been removed from his duties after church officials say he accidentally displayed inappropriate pictures from his computer before Sunday Mass. The Diocese of Scranton said [...]
And then join your favorite team of reefer addicts and hooch pushers here on Slog as we attend all the election-night parties, boozing it up with the winners and losers. We'll post all the best parts: interviews, photos, videos, and oodles more.
Which candidate will kick out' [...]
The arrival of the universal:
Four Tanzanians have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a 10-year-old albino boy last year, reports IOL. The court convicted them of murdering the boy and removing his head and legs. The ruling brings to seven the number of suspects sentenced to [...]
The District of Columbia is debating the legalization of same-sex marriage. The loudest voices being raised in opposition belong to African American religious leaders and it makes for pretty depressing YouTube viewing. But Lurleen at Pam's House Blend points out that more black clergy in D.C. support marriage [...]
Detailed cross tabs of a poll released yesterday by SurveyUSA show Joe Mallahan has a two-point lead, but 12 percent of voters remain undecided. How are they likely to vote?
If late-October trends are an indiction, Mike McGinn could do well: He picked up seven percent support since a poll [...]
The latest complaint from domestic partnership opponent Larry Stickney, via CBS News:
"You have to swear allegiance to the gay lobby if you want to do business in Seattle at this point," he said.
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[...]After two decades of having disastrous neoliberal policies (ESAP) stuffed down its throat, and all of its woes blamed on dictators, government incompetence, and corruption, Africa is finally challenging the advanced capitalist world on the ground of its own corruption, mismanagement, and environmental abuses:
African countries are boycotting international [...]
...by the video cameras we install in bathrooms.
Police say Joseph Moreaux of Lancaster was cited and released on suspicion of peeping by means of an electronic device Sunday after a customer spotted the device hidden among boxes in the corner of the bathroom of the Family Christian Book Store.... [...]
Barack Obama made time to campaign in New Jersey and Virginia and sent Joe Biden to upstate New York to campaign for a Democrat running for Congress. But the Obama administration refused to do the bare minimum for the president's LGBT supporters. Obama didn't issue an explicit statement calling on [...]
Vote Today: Here are our endorsements.
Vote or We Will End Up Like This: Hamid Karzai hilariously vows to fight corruption in Afghanistan.
Seriously, Motherfucker, Vote Today: Three elections could indicate where our country is, one year after electing Obama.
Mourning and Waiting: A community waits as the police [...]
