Today’s loser: Arena opponents.
This afternoon, opponents of the proposed SoDo arena released a poll purporting to show that a strong majority of Seattle residents oppose the arena. However, the questions in the brief poll provided several negative talking points against the arena—including the fact that it would be largely taxpayer-funded and “could cost jobs and worsen transportation problems in the SoDo area; making it more difficult to get goods and cargo to and from the Port” of Seattle.
Additionally, arena proponents have pointed out, poll respondents skewed older than Seattle’s population as a whole, with 26 percent of the poll’s 300 respondents saying they were 65 or older—a demographic that tends to skew more conservative and anti-public spending.
Today’s winner: State food stamp clients.
The state’s Department of Social and Human Services has announced that under a new contract with banking giant JP Morgan Chase, it will no longer charge low-income Washington State residents who use their Electronic Benefits Transfer food-stamp cards to withdraw cash from debit machines. Previously, every time a food-stamp client used their EBT card as a debit card, Chase took an 85-cent cut, making a $100,000 monthly profit on transaction fees alone.
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