Over at Rainier Valley Post, editor Amber Campbell is dissatisfied with Mayor Mike McGinn's explanation for leaving a two-hour meeting with neighborhood and ethnic bloggers after only 20 minutes. As we reported on PubliCola yesterday , McGinn spokesman Aaron Pickus apologized to the group of bloggers for failing to "make clear" in his invitation that the mayor only intended to stay at the meeting for the first half-hour, after which the bloggers would talk to mayoral staffers about how to work with the mayor's communications team.

“My failure gave many of the attendees the false impression that the Mayor was scheduled to be in the meeting for the full hour and a half, instead of just the initial 30 minutes," Pickus wrote. "I apologize to anyone who felt disrespected as a result of my error and who felt that our office did not value their work in the community."

Campbell isn't buying it.

"Bullshit, Aaron," she wrote today.

[I]magine my surprise when, 20 minutes into the 90-minute engagement, after explaining how important we all are to getting his message out (especially the one about how much he cares for kids and families) Mayor McGinn stood up, announced that the wife was out of town and that he had to go make dinner for the kids. With that, he was gone.

REALLY?!

This single mom can miss dinner and the kids and pay a sitter, but the Mayor can’t?

REALLY?!

I was hot. But I was also embarrassed for the Mayor, and for his staff.

Because I don’t care who you are. That’s just rude.

In fact, it was such a public relations disaster that I couldn’t help but mention it afterward to Communications Director Beth Hester.

She agreed. She said she was as shocked as the rest of us because she didn’t know he planned to leave. She even went so far as to say that sometimes, an event like that isn’t worth having if all it does is piss people off.

Ya think?!