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1. A PubliCola reader wrote to state representative Mark Miloscia (D-30) expressing her opposition to his candidacy for state auditor.
Miloscia, as we reported yesterday morning, is sponsoring legislation that would require doctors to give women medically inaccurate information about abortion and impose a 24-hour waiting period on abortions.
Miloscia's response:
2. The conservative Red State blog is seeing red—as in Marxists. In a post over the weekend , Red State published a help wanted ad from the Service Employees International Union 775 as evidence that the local healthcare workers union is "a radical and militantly Marxist union."
Red State bolded some of the language in the SEIU help wanted ad (the union is looking for an organizer) to prove its point:
Their post concludes (with italics this time): "The question that lingers is: Will 2013 be the year when a real attorney general finally begins to look at the entire SEIU structure with RICO in mind? "
Asked how they responded to the accusations of Marxism and racketeering, SEIU 775 spokesman Adam Glickman gave Fizz a quote that's likely to make Red State even more skittish. Bolds ours!
"As low-wage home care workers have, like many working families, seen their pay and benefits stagnate or decline over the last several years while CEO salaries have skyrocketed, they become increasingly mobilized to fight back," Glickman begins. "Our members’ fight for living wages and against continued cuts to the services they provide is part of the broader struggle to force the wealthy to pay their fair share to fix the economy they broke."
SEIU 775 is the long-term health care workers' union that ran I-1163, the measure voters passed 65-34 to fund health care worker training.
3. Will Mayor Mike McGinn reshuffle the deck at Seattle Police Department HQ in light of a damning report from the Department of Justice about brutality within SPD ranks? C.R. Douglas---formerly of the Seattle Channel, now at Q13---seems to think so.
After interviewing McGinn last week (McGinn told Douglas he had no plans to fire police chief John Diaz but was cagey about whether he planned to get rid of command staff), Douglas concluded, "He may stick with Diaz, but something's got to change in the department [and] it's got to happen pretty fast."
4. During yesterday's city council meeting, four "bag monsters"---activists wearing costumes made of hundreds of plastic bags---serenaded council members with a song "opposing" a proposal banning disposable plastic bags. (Sample lyrics: "A bag monster's made each minute/ Five hundred bags are in it.")
The bag monsters didn't give their last names, identifying themselves only by their first name and the last name "Bagmonster."
1. A PubliCola reader wrote to state representative Mark Miloscia (D-30) expressing her opposition to his candidacy for state auditor.
Miloscia, as we reported yesterday morning, is sponsoring legislation that would require doctors to give women medically inaccurate information about abortion and impose a 24-hour waiting period on abortions.
Miloscia's response:
Dear [redacted],
Thank you for letting me know your views on this issue. The State Auditors Office has nothing to do with this policy issue or in ones ability to be a good auditor.
Sincerely,
Mark
2. The conservative Red State blog is seeing red—as in Marxists. In a post over the weekend , Red State published a help wanted ad from the Service Employees International Union 775 as evidence that the local healthcare workers union is "a radical and militantly Marxist union."
Red State bolded some of the language in the SEIU help wanted ad (the union is looking for an organizer) to prove its point:
• Plan and execute strategic direct action field plans including banner drops, bank takeovers, and capitol occupations with membership, other local unions, and coalition partners
• Train and lead members in non-violent civil disobedience, such as occupying state buildings and banks, and peaceful resistance.
Their post concludes (with italics this time): "The question that lingers is: Will 2013 be the year when a real attorney general finally begins to look at the entire SEIU structure with RICO in mind? "
Asked how they responded to the accusations of Marxism and racketeering, SEIU 775 spokesman Adam Glickman gave Fizz a quote that's likely to make Red State even more skittish. Bolds ours!
"As low-wage home care workers have, like many working families, seen their pay and benefits stagnate or decline over the last several years while CEO salaries have skyrocketed, they become increasingly mobilized to fight back," Glickman begins. "Our members’ fight for living wages and against continued cuts to the services they provide is part of the broader struggle to force the wealthy to pay their fair share to fix the economy they broke."
SEIU 775 is the long-term health care workers' union that ran I-1163, the measure voters passed 65-34 to fund health care worker training.
3. Will Mayor Mike McGinn reshuffle the deck at Seattle Police Department HQ in light of a damning report from the Department of Justice about brutality within SPD ranks? C.R. Douglas---formerly of the Seattle Channel, now at Q13---seems to think so.
After interviewing McGinn last week (McGinn told Douglas he had no plans to fire police chief John Diaz but was cagey about whether he planned to get rid of command staff), Douglas concluded, "He may stick with Diaz, but something's got to change in the department [and] it's got to happen pretty fast."
4. During yesterday's city council meeting, four "bag monsters"---activists wearing costumes made of hundreds of plastic bags---serenaded council members with a song "opposing" a proposal banning disposable plastic bags. (Sample lyrics: "A bag monster's made each minute/ Five hundred bags are in it.")
The bag monsters didn't give their last names, identifying themselves only by their first name and the last name "Bagmonster."
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