Dear Mayor Ed Murray,
Rumors suggest you might have dropped out of the mayoral race as early as earlier this morning. So do newspaper headlines. Also, your live and prepared statements. In the interests of the city and in making us look concerned about the interests of the survivors of sexual assault, we hope the rumors are true.
To be clear, we really were not paying much attention to Twitter this morning. We’re not proclaiming your guilt or innocence in a civil case alleging you sexually assaulted a teenager in the 1980s. Our conclusion that you should not seek re-election comes in reaction to the news that you are not seeking reelection.
From taking up the cause of raising the minimum wage, to bringing developers and affordable housing advocates to the table, to your groundbreaking work on advancing LGBT equality during your tenure in the state legislature, you’ve made a positive mark on this city and this state.
But now that you are not seeking re-election, we ask that you not seek re-election.
Sincerely,
The Editors*
*NOTE: Clearly, nobody edits anything here on HA.
Serious question or perhaps provocation. My hunch is all this talk about providing affordable housing, especially in deals with developers, doesn’t really do much. That is, there’s an enormous amount of overhead running them, and the end pricing isn’t actually that cheap. So the city (and the mayor) feel like they are providing decent housing for the working poor but in reality they are doing very little (but at great cost). Thoughts?
With this post, horsesass.org officially jumped the shark.
Is that Onion I’m smelling?
Maybe we ca get the Mayor’s race polls ect to replace the 2016 Presidential race? How many votes will the Mayor who is not running for reelection get? Can we do a pool?
@3 no. It’s Mayor Ed’s spunk that’s all over your face.