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Anti-Tunnel Campaign Accuses Pro-Tunnel Camp of Astroturfing
In an email to Let's Move Forward, the pro-tunnel campaign, today, Magnolia Community Club president Diana Dearmin accused the group today of falsely claiming that the Magnolia Community Club has endorsed the pro-tunnel effort. (The pro-tunnel group is pushing for a "yes" vote on Referendum 1, approving language enabling the city to move forward with the tunnel in the future).
Seattle Citizens Against the Tunnel founder Elizabeth Campbell, who distributed the letter, was a longtime member of the community club and still lives in the neighborhood, where she is head of the Magnolia Neighborhood Planning Council.
"It has come to our attention that Magnolia Community Club has somehow come to be listed as one of your organization’s endorsers," Dearmin wrote. "The MCC has never voted to endorse Let’s Move Forward. Please immediately remove the MCC as an endorser from any and all literature, including removing the MCC from your website list of endorsers."
Let's Move Forward subsequently removed the group's name (along with that of MCC member Steve DeForest, who was briefly listed as an individual supporter) from its endorsement list, which currently several citywide and ethnic chambers of commerce; the current governor and two former governors; and developer lobby groups like the Master Builders Association, the Building Owners and Managers Association; and the National Construction Alliance.
Seattle Citizens Against the Tunnel founder Elizabeth Campbell, who distributed the letter, was a longtime member of the community club and still lives in the neighborhood, where she is head of the Magnolia Neighborhood Planning Council.
"It has come to our attention that Magnolia Community Club has somehow come to be listed as one of your organization’s endorsers," Dearmin wrote. "The MCC has never voted to endorse Let’s Move Forward. Please immediately remove the MCC as an endorser from any and all literature, including removing the MCC from your website list of endorsers."
Let's Move Forward subsequently removed the group's name (along with that of MCC member Steve DeForest, who was briefly listed as an individual supporter) from its endorsement list, which currently several citywide and ethnic chambers of commerce; the current governor and two former governors; and developer lobby groups like the Master Builders Association, the Building Owners and Managers Association; and the National Construction Alliance.
