More fun with the Seattle City Attorney
Warning: if you’re not from Seattle you won’t care about this. Even if you are, you probably won’t.
I wrote about who I wanted to win the local Seattle elections this year and how I did on my predictions–Six for six!–before. But if you want some evidence of why one of them was a seriously good pick, read this article on The Stranger about the supposed fallout from the new City Attorney, Pete Holmes, cleaning house. The voters spoke. These professionals need to deal with it and move the on. If some of these city attorneys did get replaced for their parts in unpopular actions that voters rejected, that’s how the political cookie unfortunately crumbles. The lesson is that if you do stuff that basically pisses off a politically active base of voters, and they vote your boss out, odds are you’ve been voted out as well.
A complete posting of the letter is here, which is even funnier. One of the complaints about Holmes:
The Draconian use of fear and subterfuge to try to pacify this Division will not make one who is unqualified an effective leader.
Not unlike how the ‘old’ City Attorney governance model was to use Draconian fear against the Seattle nightlife culture?
