It begins:
When you've fought every day for 10 years to turn a map you and a friend drew at a kitchen table into a $2 billion transit agency, and volunteered and done strategy for two winning underdog city council campaigns, and then run for city council yourself' [...]
Mayor-elect Mike McGinn lays out his vision, names his transition crew, and asks for your input on what to do next.
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[...]Mayor-elect Mike McGinn continues to beef up his outreach crew for his transition into City Hall. At a meeting on Friday, McGinn called in former city council member Heidi Wills, People’s Waterfront Coalition director Cary Moon, and Port Commissioner-Elect Rob Holland. Each are tasked with reaching out to their respective [...]
After every general election, Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36) hosts a forum for political wonks at the Hale's Brewery in Ballard. The panelists have been folks like Dem Chair Dwight Pelz, newly-elected Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36), blogger David Goldstein, and state Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown (D-3). My favorite panelist was [...]
In case you missed it on Friday afternoon, the transition team of Mike McGinn is looking into switching the computers in the mayor's office from PCs to Macs.
Not only is this inflaming long-simmering Mac vs. PC tensions among our commenters—it's pissing people off in all [...]
Steve Elliott takes on the useless waste of humanity that is Frank Chopp. It makes absolutely no sense to me that Mike McGinn can win the mayoral race, but that guy can’t be defeated by an actual progessive in the 43rd District.
Arrested: the Greenwood arsonist suspect.
McGinn Transition: Taking shape. Meanwhile, the new administration is looking at converting the mayor's office from PC to Mac.
Challenging the Gun Ban: "A Kent man has announced that he intends to carry a pistol into a West Seattle community center" [...]
Mayor-elect Mike McGinn has announced that Liz Birkholz, a landscape architect and open-space advocate, will serve as his transition program manager. Darryl Smith, a Windermere Realtor and former city council candidate, and Kip Tokuda, head of the human service's family and youth division and a former 37th District Representative, will [...]
In the name of pummeling a dead ungulate, the latest results from King County Elections show that Mike McGinn is now beating Joe Mallahan by 6,475 votes—a 3.2 percent lead—up from a 5,714 vote lead yesterday.
Fascinating facts: For comparison, Greg Nickels beat Mark Sidran by only 3,158 votes in [...]
Is there any doubt that in the race for mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn was a Mac while Joe Mallahan and Greg Nickels were PCs?
Not really—and if there was any doubt, the election results pretty much settled the question.
So it probably shouldn't be any surprise that' [...]
Joni Balter on KUOW just now (in conversation with Eli Sanders), talking about the McGinn administration she anticipates. She went on: "Only the bike lanes will be paved in the next snowstorm. I mean cleared."
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[...]This morning, about 30 people representing labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and advocacy groups were given their marching orders—in the most egalitarian way marching orders can be given—in the mayoral transition offices on the 60th floor of the Seattle Municipal Tower. Mayor-elect Mike McGinn asked the individuals, as community ambassadors, to [...]
I recommend you watch this video. While Mayor-elect Mike McGinn picks new drapes for city hall, he says, "We're not just going to talk to important elected officials, nor are we just going to talk to the same old people who advise new mayors about how things should work—we're going" [...]
From Phone Banks to Skyscrapers: McGinn knights seven campaign volunteers with jobs on the mayoral transition team. "We're not big on titles," McGinn says.
Afghanistan War: Obama rejects every plan from his national security team on fighting the Taliban. He tells officials to rewrite proposals on adding more' [...]
(From left to right: Mike McGinn, Jen Nance, Elliott Day, Derek Farmer, and April Thomas.)
Seven of the people who worked more than 40 hours a week on the McGinn for Mayor campaign without pay—the core volunteer staff—now have paying jobs. They are Ainsley Close, Aaron [...]
Not that it matters as much now that the conceding and victory speechifying is over, but today Mike McGinn's lead over Joe Mallahan grew even further.
Yesterday it was 4,939 votes. Today it's 5,335 votes.
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Yes yes, FAIL Blog has brought us hours of schadenfreude-rich pleasure, but to commemorate the first full day of Mayor-Elect McGinn's triumph, let's accentuate the positive with SUCCEED Blog.
To the right is the Hair Sculpture Succeed. Here is the Obama Sushi Roll Succeed, and [...]
"Mayor Mike McGinn" Has a Nice Ring to It: The mayor-elect accepted Joe Mallahan's concession last night in a campaign office in southeast Seattle, before cake and pizza and beer materialized. Seattle Times, which endorsed Mallahan (as well as Susan Hutchison, Robert Rosencrantz, and Jessie Israel), editorializes about [...]
Forget the fact that he ran the most impressive, effective, tireless, grassroots campaign I’ve seen since I started following local politics. According to the political sages at the Seattle Times, Mike McGinn mostly owes his victory to moody voters…
SEATTLE voters are in a testy mood. They turned down the [...]
Mayor-elect Mike McGinn is spending his victory night the same way he spent many nights of his campaign: at his Southeast Seattle campaign headquarters in a room full of volunteers, surrounded by phones and empty pizza boxes. “It looks like a phone bank night,” McGinn says.
McGinn credits his victory [...]
Here's the video:
(Eli Sanders adds: "And who's the 'We' in 'We did it'? Lots of people, of course, but it's hard to see how it could have been done without those McGinn-leaning late voters.")
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