Can you imagine the howling we’d hear from the Seattle Times editorial page if it was Sound Transit that had flushed 97 million dollars down the toilet, and not the Port of Seattle? Or if it was Sound Transit that was under investigation by the Justice Department and not the Port of Seattle?
Sound Transit was pounded by the Times during last year’s Prop 1 campaign. After Prop 1 failed, the Times editorial page took plenty of cuts at Sound Transit and at light rail. The Port of Seattle, meanwhile, gets the kid glove treatment.
With the Port of Seattle’s recent malfeasance, you’d think the Times would be all over it.
Nope. Nothing yet.
If somebody at Sound Transit so much as palms a twenty from petty cash, they get the third degree from Balter, Vesely and the gang. Port of Seattle under investigation? Doesn’t move the meter.
Port trouble apparently also doesn’t interest the HA Happy Hooligans either.
The Piper
Or most everyone is stuck in traffic. Hmmm…
Reportorially, the Times has been on the story … moreso than all the blogs put together.
Hm. I wonder if the lack of editorial scrutiny has something to do with the long-standing Good ‘Ole Boy connections between the Times ed board and the corrupt elements at the Port?
Couldn’t be.
How come using tax dollars to provide health care to poor kids is “socialism” but giving tax dollars to fat cat port contractors and consultants is “capitalism”? Aren’t socialism and capitalism the same thing, the only difference being who gets the money?
So, if we gave Sound Transit to some rich guy it would be capitalism, but if the public owns it, it’s socialism?
Is the port run on the Husky Athletics model? “If you don’t give me the port director I want, I’ll take my ships and go home?” Looks that way.
Are Ed Hansen and John Craig Herman twin brothers?
The editorial board of The Seattle Times endorsed Pat Davis the last time she ran. I couldn’t believe it; it left me dumbstruck. Why?
Why does the P-I break more stories about the Port?
The Port annually buys space in the newspapers for an advertisement reporting on its activities.
Let’s eliminate the sales tax exemption for newspapers.
Fuck you crackpiper…moron.
Good thing we’re the one of the last of the two newspaper towns.
Maybe Mic Dinsmore is against the “death tax” the “dog hunter” hates so much.
@ 1 Piper
Too many trolls here (and by that I DON’T include the Rabbit!) You all take over, and there’s not much place for intelligent discourse.
I do my Pork of Seattle yapping over at PI’s Soundoff, with nearly every article. I ALWAYS make it a point to remind the PI that THEY ALSO endorsed Fisken’s ‘Dinsmore-backed opponent’ & I repeatedly ask WHY the PI editorial board doesn’t bother to “read their OWN newspaper?” Why would they give such an endorsement, if they bothered to read their OWN newspaper? Fisken was the ONE trying to drain the swamp!!!
Wish someone in the court system would get off their dead butts and let us get it ON with princess pat davis recall petition!! Maybe this audit and mishandling of funds would put the recall issue on someone’s front burner. Although, perhaps, they are hoping she will die of old age before they have to consider?
I always figured the fishwrapper was pi$$ed that the P.I. did such a great expose on the Port mess, while the wrapper was asleep at the helm ignoring the stinking fish heads.
The Times announced just yesterday that they’re going to change the format of the paper, reducing the page width by an inch, to save printing costs. It’s a cinch that the PI is going to have the same thing imposed on them whether they like it or not.
@13…FnF…
Hey! There’s as much of a place for intelligent discourse as you care to have, just go down a ways and type away!
Funny thing about free speech is that often you have to fight not to speak, but to be heard. Maybe audicity and persistence ought to be considered by you?
Never give up, never quit.
The Piper
@14…AF…
Didn’t The Times so something similar not long ago? Like less than a year ago?
Pretty soon it will be as small as the McLendon’s ad booklets.
Sucks to be a Blethen.
The Piper
Dull Knife sighting on Posts 10-12
Dull Knife@10:
You are a credit to your party. Keep up the good work. The DNC will reward you for your delivery and word choice.
look at who the seattle times endorses for commissioner
two and half year ago the corrupt pat davis
this time around “son of pat” bill bryant whom mic dinsmore and pat davis got to run on three red herrings against the utterly clean notgetalong goalong with bi as usual alec fisken:
1] the environment – the port has been pro-green for years, unanimously so, including dinsmore
2] transportation – as though the port of seattle is can do anything about the rail and street gridlock.
i forget the third herring right now, it was even less pertinent. the seattle times refuses to run stories on ssa marine, the goliath at the port, who get freebies and ultimately favored treatment; the seattle times the owner i imagine like the corruption at the port just fine and the folks who benefit. eliminating the commission will save 30 k in salaries! they get 6 k a year. some travel expenses, and not much else. eyeman who wants to eliminate the commission, is an idiot. what is needed is a modern commission with real teeth not a board of five alderman and women as for a 1900 norwest church. it is the port operation that they oversee where the problem lies, probably not even in the 97 million cost over run, if that is what it is. but rather in being able to bypass their watchdog aldermen with contracts less than a million dollars. of course there is no real need for the tax subsidy but it sure keeps the bonds rated AAA.