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Drinking Liberally—Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us for another evening of electoral politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

There are three primary events tonight: The Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and the no-stakes “show-me” primary in Missouri. This one looks pretty interesting. The latest polls show:

  • Gingrich is polling third in Colorado, behind Romney and Santorum
  • Santorum has a slight lead over Romney in Minnesota
  • Santorum may even take Missouri (though based on a slightly older poll)

Will Santorum really win two out of three?!? Clearly we’ll have some live blogging going on for this G.O.P. train-wreck.

Drinking Liberally–Seattle meets every Tuesday at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our nominal starting time is 8:00 pm, but some of us will show up much earlier for the political happenings.

Can’t make it to Seattle? There is also a meeting tonight of the Tri-Cities chapters. On Thursday, Drinking Liberally Bremerton meets.

With 227 chapters of Living Liberally, including twelve in Washington state and six more in Oregon, chances are excellent there’s one near you.

Comments

  1. 1

    ad-moon-istration…

    Perfect for the likes of Raygun (who talked “alien life forms” with Gorbachev) and Gingrich who is as spaced out as it gets.

  3. 3

    Discuss this you a$$holes–
    KING5 TV found:

    • More than 1000 employees have been on home assignment.
    • More than 50 employees were paid to sit at home for a year or more.
    • Approximately 100 employees were on home assignment for at least 6 months.
    • The number of home assignments increased every year from 112 in 2006 to 245 in 2010.
    • In 2011 there was a slight decrease: 224 employees were on home assignment.
    • The cost of paying employees on home assignment increased every year from $918,000 in 2006 to $4.2 million in 2010.
    • In 2011 there was a decrease in the cost: $3.8 million paid in salaries and benefits.
    • A Department of Corrections psychiatrist collected the most: $247,000 during 14 months at home.

  4. 4

    Seems an EFFer has graced us..

    Is the Pooper still hacking away down there in Olympia? Yawwwwn… Who cares?

  5. 5

    3. canubelievethis? spews:

    Discuss this you a$$holes–
    KING5 TV found:

    • More than 1000 employees have been on home assignment.
    • More than 50 employees were paid to sit at home for a year or more.
    • Approximately 100 employees were on home assignment for at least 6 months.
    • The number of home assignments increased every year from 112 in 2006 to 245 in 2010.
    • In 2011 there was a slight decrease: 224 employees were on home assignment.
    • The cost of paying employees on home assignment increased every year from $918,000 in 2006 to $4.2 million in 2010.
    • In 2011 there was a decrease in the cost: $3.8 million paid in salaries and benefits.
    • A Department of Corrections psychiatrist collected the most: $247,000 during 14 months at home.

    02/07/2012 at 7:37 pm

    This dumb fuck posted this same drivel on TWO threads just to be sure we ALL read it.

    Way to go, fuckwad.

  6. 6

    @3 Sure, I’ll be happy to discuss it.

    There’s nothing unusual about an employer with 100,000 employees putting 100 to 200 of them on paid leave while investigating possible misconduct.

    There’s nothing unusual about an employer with 100,000 employees having to fire a couple hundred of them every year.

    There’s nothing unusual about an employer with 100,000 employees incurring a few million dollars a year of employee separation costs.

    I suspect if you compared the private sector with the state, you’d find those numbers and costs substantially higher in the private sector.

    And one thing you won’t ever find in the public sector: A CEO dismissed for poor performance getting a severance package of anywhere from $10 million to $100 million. In state government, when an agency head is shown to the door, he gets his final paycheck and accumulated vacation leave — and that’s all.

    If you were trying to make some sort of point here about “wasting taxpayers’ money” on personnel expenses, the answer is that when you buy a product from a private company, you have to pay for it; and when you get services from public agencies, you have to pay taxes for them. Even though nitwits like you think public services should be free and public servants should work for free, that ain’t the way it works in the real world.

  7. 7

    Private Sector = Private money (who cares)
    Public Sector = Public Money (we all should care)

    You keep defending incompetence and corruption, you’ll get more & more of it.

  8. 8

    7. canubelievethis? spews:

    Private Sector = Private money (who cares)
    Public Sector = Public Money (we all should care)

    You keep defending incompetence and corruption, you’ll get more & more of it.

    02/08/2012 at 6:43 am

    This useless twit will vote for Ron Paul…again.

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