Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  • Seattle Election notes

    Watching the debate for Port Authority position #4 on seattle channel - Tom Albro vs. Max Vekich
       Albro - engineer small business owner vs. Vekich - career politician labor guy longshoreman
       vekich is full of platitudes, smug, and i coming off really badly
       pretty good questions - e.g. merge port of seattle and port of tacoma?
       good questioning of financial funding - max vekich is funded almost solely by labor
       actually getting testy and good

       reading a bit more ... i'd vote Albro

    Now watching the Port Authority #3 debate: Rob Holland vs David Doud
       intros - both are coming off as not that bright and sleazy
       holland - sales labor guy vs. doud - real estate, international investor, business and mayoral candidate
       creating jobs is the dominant topic this time - very protectionist
       merger question is a key differentiator - holland is against merger
       questioning holland's huge union support - he ducks it
       can we just take both the guys running for position #4?

       refusing to merge the ports kills holland for me. tacoma is going to spend $1B to steal business from seattle. doesn't seem smart from a regional competitiveness standpoint.
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