1. Mayor Mike McGinn reportedly plans to roll out a proposal to fund his "Walk, Bike, Ride" program, which would help fund transit, biking, and pedestrian programs, next Tuesday. Asked whether McGinn planned to propose a funding scheme for the plan, McGinn spokesman Aaron Pickus said, "We haven't announced anything like that."

For what it's worth, here's a Morning Fizz item from January 12, two days before McGinn made his seawall announcement :

7. Chalk this one up to total gossip, since we haven’t been able to confirm it with McGinn’s office, but there’s a rumor going around that the mayor plans to push for a ballot measure this fall to help pay for the crumbling waterfront seawall. ... Asked about the rumor, McGinn spokesman Mark Matassa said “We haven’t made an announcement about anything like that.”

2. We noted this in passing in a larger story on GOP strategy earlier this week, but it's worth noting again here in the Fizz: Former state GOP chair Diane Tebelius—who was acrimoniously ousted as chair by Luke Esser in  2007 after the Democrats took over the Eastside Seattle Suburbs—may now be a key player in Esser's strategy to take back those very same burbs.

Tebelius is considering a run against powerful Democratic  State Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48, Medina).

3. Earlier this week, we busted U.S. Sen. Patty Murray for telling the press:

“I can tell you, in my campaign cycle, I have not taken any money from Goldman Sachs.”

Some simple fact checking at the Federal Elections Commission showed that Sen. Murray had, in fact, taken money from Goldman Sachs' key lobbyists this campaign cycle.

However, in fairness to Sen. Murray, we must also report this: Recently accused by the GOP of taking over $500,000 from the investment and securities industry over the course of her career, Murray's office got into an exchange with the Republican State Party Chair Luke Esser, completely zinging him on getting his facts wrong about Murray's voting record and pointing out that donations or not, Murray strongly supports the Wall Street reform package.

Here's the exchange over on the Bellingham Herald .

4 . The city attorney's office got back to us this morning with a little more detail about why Chris Bushnell, a former top aide to Mayor Mike McGinn, was able to have a public meeting of the Ethics and Elections Commission closed to the public yesterday. (Bushnell, who falsely claimed to have a Ph.D in economics and subsequently resigned , was charged with an ethics violation for failing to inform the mayor that his wife was part of a team bidding to design the new downtown seawall).

Kimberly Mills, spokeswoman for City Attorney Pete Holmes, says Bushnell " requested that his hearing be closed.  Since he was not an elected or appointed official as specified in that Ethics Code section, the Commission held a closed hearing.  The Commission then came back into open session and decided the case."

The entire hearing was taped. We'll have a listen and report back anything interesting we find out.