Morning Fizz
Including Republicans Jane Hague and Pete Von Reichbauer
1. Asked why they endorsed every incumbent, except Seattle City Council member Jean Godden, yesterday
, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce's new political wing, Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy, was politic, telling Fizz that it wasn't about Godden, it was about Maurice Classen, the Godden challenger who nabbed CASE's thumbs up.
"Jean deserves a lot of credit," chamber spokesman George Allen said, "but compared with Maurice, who runs three businesses—who knows what it's like to have to meet a payroll---that kind of experience is rare and critical among elected officials. That was very important to us."
2. Fizz wasn't able to attend Great City's candidate cookoff last night, but Sally Clark won the People's Choice Award. Her dish: Gazpacho in pastry cups, a dish that meets zero-waste policy standards. You can eat the cup!
3. There's a reason we weren't at the cookoff. Fizz was in Burien at the latest King County Council hearing on the pending $20 car tab fee. The emergency funding proposal would stave off drastic cuts in Metro bus service; 600,000 hours of service, or nearly 20 percent of service.
The council can pass the temporary fee with a supermajority vote of six, or send it to a public vote with a simple majority of five votes.
The news from the hearing: This time, seven council members showed up—including Republicans Jane Hague and Pete Von Reichbauer—a sign that the vote count could be ticking up. (At the Seattle hearing ten days ago, only four council members, all Democrats—who publicly support the proposal—showed up.)
MIA last night at the packed hearing? Republicans Reagan Dunn and Kathy Lambert—who don't support the proposal.
4. More evidence that US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is serious about running here: Yesterday, he sent out a press release with the following headline:
Kucinich was speaking against legislation that would pardon Boeing execs even though the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against management for violating the National Labor Relations Act by moving 787 production to South Carolina in response, the company said, to a Boeing workers' strike. The case is pending, but the pardon would preempt any punishment—which could include making Boeing moving production of the Dreamliner back to the Puget Sound.
Watch Kucinich speaking out against the pardon legislation—"This bill ... interferes with an active case where the employer has already been found by the NLRB to have openly violated federal law ... It destroys the very concept of equal justice before the law and equal protection of the law ... It is an attack on the First Amendment rights of workers to free speech and it destroys their right to a legal remedy"—here:
"Jean deserves a lot of credit," chamber spokesman George Allen said, "but compared with Maurice, who runs three businesses—who knows what it's like to have to meet a payroll---that kind of experience is rare and critical among elected officials. That was very important to us."
2. Fizz wasn't able to attend Great City's candidate cookoff last night, but Sally Clark won the People's Choice Award. Her dish: Gazpacho in pastry cups, a dish that meets zero-waste policy standards. You can eat the cup!
3. There's a reason we weren't at the cookoff. Fizz was in Burien at the latest King County Council hearing on the pending $20 car tab fee. The emergency funding proposal would stave off drastic cuts in Metro bus service; 600,000 hours of service, or nearly 20 percent of service.
The council can pass the temporary fee with a supermajority vote of six, or send it to a public vote with a simple majority of five votes.
The news from the hearing: This time, seven council members showed up—including Republicans Jane Hague and Pete Von Reichbauer—a sign that the vote count could be ticking up. (At the Seattle hearing ten days ago, only four council members, all Democrats—who publicly support the proposal—showed up.)
MIA last night at the packed hearing? Republicans Reagan Dunn and Kathy Lambert—who don't support the proposal.
4. More evidence that US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is serious about running here: Yesterday, he sent out a press release with the following headline:
“Congress Should Want Boeing to Succeed but not by Undermining Its Workforce which is the Best in the World.”
Kucinich was speaking against legislation that would pardon Boeing execs even though the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against management for violating the National Labor Relations Act by moving 787 production to South Carolina in response, the company said, to a Boeing workers' strike. The case is pending, but the pardon would preempt any punishment—which could include making Boeing moving production of the Dreamliner back to the Puget Sound.
Watch Kucinich speaking out against the pardon legislation—"This bill ... interferes with an active case where the employer has already been found by the NLRB to have openly violated federal law ... It destroys the very concept of equal justice before the law and equal protection of the law ... It is an attack on the First Amendment rights of workers to free speech and it destroys their right to a legal remedy"—here:
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