I don’t generally endorse Republicans, but I’m willing to give those who share my interests and agenda a fair shake. Take for example Shawn Bunney, who is running for Pierce County Executive on the GOP ticket.
According to an invitation to a fundraising event being held on his behalf by Strategies 360, Bunney is “a leader and friend to those of us who want to improve the region’s transportation systems.” The invitation urges us to “keep Shawn working for the region’s interests.”
And which region is that? Take a look at the accompanying graphic:
Hmm. Isn’t that the Aurora Bridge and a Metro bus in the downtown bus tunnel? So, if elected Pierce County Executive, Bunney will do everything he can to improve transportation and transit… in Seattle?
Now that’s a platform I can support. Too bad for Bunney that most Pierce County voters actually live in, um, Pierce County.
Roger is gonna have something to say about that post header, I imagine.
Well, most of the Pierce County taxpayer money under the regional transportation and transit levies is going to end up in King County anyway. Although these images would be more effective in a piece urging Pierce County to vote “NO” in November.
While I appreicate the irony of the photos, it is true that even people living in Pierce County are effected by Seattle’s traffic.
Whether it’s people who live in Pierce County and communte to the Seattle area for work, or the impact on all busiesses in the region due to traffic congestion, it is a concern for most people from Pierce to Snohomish Counties.
Shawn Bunney is Chair of the RTID (Regional Transportation Investment District) Executive Committee. Duh!
Maybe Mr. Bunney will push for the Sounder trains to run both ways to accommodate those who might live in Seattle but work in Tacoma.
4/18/07
WASHINGTON — FBI agents have searched the Oakton, Va., home of California GOP Rep. John Doolittle, who is under investigation in the congressional corruption investigation surrounding convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Doolittle’s attorney said Wednesday.
Ha – I agree with you ArtFart! I could not believe when I started researching my commuting options (I work in Kent, very near the train station) that the freaking train DOESN’T RUN BOTH WAYS! Unbelievable.
take a close look at the cars in the photos…..does anyone notice that in most of them you see ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE VEHICLE?????
when i was still [shudder] in washington state i noticed that all the time. the reason you boobs have such traffic woes are simple:
A. none of you idiots knows how to drive, and
B. there is only one person in every damn car.
oh, and the entire stupid state is run by democrats….you know, the tools that claim if you just elect them they will fix everything.
oh….uh huh.
how’s that working for you?
UN-OFFICIAL HA CONTEST:
Try and find Mark the Redneck in the left-hand picture.
Anything said by Dickless Pope in this or any other thread is usually going to be:
1) An outright lie
2) A mis-statement
3) A mistake
4) An attempt to defelect attention from issues that matter and which happen to show his party in the light they deserve
@ 9:
It’s hard to see him, but he’s the panhandler by the offramp.
Nice digs, MTR. You TROOP HATER.
christmasghost @ 8:
Who is your congressional representative in CA?
Doolittle??
Hmmmm. . . is that your congressional representative?
Bunny would be a disaster for Pierce County, not that the other guy would be much better.
Savage was playing clips for the tapes that the killer sent to NBC. Profanity laced rant about “rich kids” and hating western culture. Didja hear the same stuff on NPR? Didn’t think so… just keep your head up your ass… it’s OK.
As I listened to this fucking lunatic, it sure sounded a lot like the hate filled shit that goes on here. The “rich kid” tirade sounded identical to the shit that Headlice posts here.
Hey Headlice, when are you going to go on a shooting rampage to “get even” with The Producers who have been screwing you for all these years.
Fucking loser…
Still waiting for someone to defend the practice of jamming a pair of scissors into a baby’s head to kill it. Please attack what SCOTUS did today and make the case for it… I love reading lunatic rants.
In case you missed it, read all about the procedure here. Pay close attention to step 4 where the scissors are jammed in and jimmied around to make a big hole in the baby’s head. http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/diagram.html
I wonder if shitforbrains Ginsburg finds any of that “alarming”.
I’M GONNA FUCKING SUE!!!! Not only is this devious snakeoil peddler a Republican, he ripped off my trademark!!! My brand name is getting tarnished here.
Redneck,
Your idiocy is clinical. The Virginia Tech shooter was insane, from any perspective. He was incapable of rational thought. Your pathetic attempt to put any political cast upon the tragedy reveals the shallowness of your analytical ability. You are a mysogynistic, racist, hater of anyone who is different than you. I hope you do not own firearms as you are a threat to go on a spree.
Republicans steal people’s names all the time! hehehe (picks at teeth with toothpick)
@2 Pierce County voters probably will end up helping pay for Renton’s new Sonics arena, so why shouldn’t they help pay for Seattle’s buses and bridges, too? That seems fair. hehehe
My Republican friends from Oklahoma City deserve to be rich!!! They’re producers!!! They work hard to steal your money!!! hehehe
Incapble of rational thought? Really? He had a plan. Been making the plan for a long time. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Did you hear the tapes of the stuff he read in class.
Did you read the shit he wrote.
Did you hear the tapes he sent to NBC.
Yer not gonna hear it on NPR. Go turn on Savage RIGHT NOW.
@3 Now that we’ve driven Seattle’s working class to Pierce County with sky-high housing prices, and Pierce County is just a bedroom suburb of Seattle, of course they should help pay for Seattle’s sports palaces and gold-plater bridges! hehehe
VT killer was as brainwashed as the moonbats here.
The “free” market is the greatest invention since the wheel! People who flip houses can make 10 times as much as people who perform useful work! Ain’t America great? Especially when it’s being run by free-market Republicans! Everything will be free!!! Well, for them, but the rest of you have to pay for it. hehehe
@8 “take a close look at the cars in the photos…..does anyone notice that in most of them you see ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE VEHICLE?????”
If you build it, they will come! Building a 6-lane 520 bridge will get you 6 lanes of congestion instead of 4 lanes of congestion. We can NEVER build our way out of congestion. Why do some people refuse to understand this?
If you’re wondering why a concrete-pontoon bridge costs 5 times as much as a steel suspension bridge, the answer has to be land acquisition costs. Take a good look at the 520 corridor — do you see space for more lanes there? Neither do it. So where do they get more land? Easy, they’ll tear down a huge number of hugely expensive homes — on your dime and mind. And for what? To increase by 50% the number of idling engines stuck in stalled traffic spewing pollution into our air, that’s what.
This is insane! You should give that regional transportation package a long hard think before you vote “yes.” And then, if you still feel an urge to vote “yes,” have someone kick you in the nuts so you have an idea of what your wallet will feel like if it passes.
The $16.4 billion they want from us this time around is several magnitudes greater than what they’ve extracted from your pocket so far. And remember — this is just the down payment. That $16.4 billion doesn’t even build the 520 bridge. If it passes, they’ll be back for the rest of the $70 billion later. You can count on it.
How much is $16.4 billion + $70 billion? About $27,000 for every person in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, or roughly $92,000 for an average household of 3.4 persons. Not counting interest.
Imagine the bank simply deciding to add $92,000 to your mortgage balance. Would you let them do that?
Now imagine our state’s transportation planners telling you they’re going to put your family $92,000 in debt. Would you let them do that?
@9 He’s the guy in the ’64 Volkswagen beetle at the far end of the bridge.
@13 I believe that’s spelled Bunney, as in B-U-N-N-E-Y, no relation to the species of fauna often referred to as “bunny.” I just wanted to clarify that.
Do you ever wonder how O’leily and Coultergeist can be called “Best Selling” authors?
http://www.conservativebookclu.....cd=WC00291
Looks like there is some warehouse somewhere just trying to dump this shit. Or maybe some government subsides.
@14 He was another satisfied customer of our equal-opportunity-for-all Republican economy.
MTR @ 20
Do you want to know where I heard what he wrote and figured out how crazy he was? On Air America, that would be 1090 on your AM dial. Trumps your notion that we liberals don’t get the news, you worthless piece of shit.
Why would the VT killer put a return address on the package to NBC of ” A. Ishmael”.
What? You didn’t know this? It wasn’t on NPR? It wasn’t on CNN? WTF????????
“In Islam, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) from Hagar, and as an appointed prophet of God.
Although Ishmael’s name was not mentioned in the Qur’an as the son who was supposed to be sacrificed, nevertheless the sacrifice tale in the Qur’an (As-Saffat [37:112]) clearly states that God gave Abraham the good news of Isaac and who he will be (a prophet, and one of the Righteous) after the sacrifice tale has finished which means that Isaac was not yet born at the time of the sacrifice[2]. In Islamic beliefs, Abraham had prayed to God for a son (‘Isma’ in Arabic means ‘to listen’, i.e., answer prayer, and ‘ell’ is derived from the Hebrew word ‘elle’, meaning ‘God’). God delivered this child to Abraham, and later tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to sacrifice his only son at the time. However, just as Abraham was to kill his only son, God halted him, praised him for his loyalty, and commanded him to sacrifice a ram instead. This leads to the Muslim practice of sacrificing domesticated animals such as sheep, goats or cows, on the celebration to mark this event known as Eid ul-Adha.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael
@31 ROGER RABBIT QUIZ
a) What famous novel begins, “Call me Ishmael”?
b) In the same novel, what is the abbreviation of Captain Ahab’s last name?
c) What is an ethnic South Korean who grew up in Virginia and attended writing classes at an American univeristy more likely to be familiar with, “Moby Dick” or the Quran?
Redneck is a good example of a home-school dropout. P.S., pay your gambling debt, welsher!
PL – That explains why you’re so uninformed and so full of hate.
The ONLY way to be a librul and remain one is to be willfully uninformed and fucking stoopid beyond belief.
33
You sure pegged me, you motherfucker. Man, you have more insight than I thought you did.
If a mama cat was having kittens, and somebody pulled the head of the cute little kitten out and jammed a pair of scissors in its head to kill it, what would be the reaction of you librul moonbats?
Shit… our unelected guvner would call a special session of the legislature and the girlz would make it capital fucking crime. Death penalty.
Do it to a human baby and you call it a fucking “choice”.
I’m STILL waiting for somebody to defend the practice of kiling a baby by sticking a pair of scissors in its head. I need somebody to explain why shitforbrains Ginsburg is right in her minority opinion. Any takers?
Hey Leftist – Just how “proud” are you of moonbat kook Ginsburg when she called today’s ruling “alarming”. Are you “proud” that your side defends the practice of jamming a pair of scissors into a baby’s head to kill it?
Tell me how the fuck you can be “proud” of that.
Shitbag…
@31 ROGER RABBIT QUIZ
a) What famous novel begins, “Call me Ishmael”?
b) In the same novel, what is the abbreviation of Captain Ahab’s last name?
c) What is an ethnic South Korean who grew up in Virginia and attended writing classes at an American univeristy more likely to be familiar with, “Moby Dick” or the Quran?
Make perfect sense to me. Hell if we conect the dots it is obvious that Moby Dick not the Quran was the influence behind this mass killing. Good job rabbit.
You know this whole tradgedy could have been averted if only there were signs stating “gun free zone”. Obviously the killer would have obeyed the law, right? I mean if we are going to ban guns shouldn’t we have signs all over the place reminding criminals that guns are banned?
Mark The woman hating Redneck brainless doofus says:
If a mama cat was having kittens, and somebody pulled the head of the cute little kitten out and jammed a pair of scissors in its head to kill it, what would be the reaction of you librul moonbats?
I’d want to pick up a gun and shoot MTR down in cold blood. There is no lower life form than welshers, and I could probably get off by pleading ‘mercy killing’.
Shit… our unelected guvner would call a special session of the legislature and the girlz would make it capital fucking crime. Death penalty.
What does Dino Rossi have to do with your irrational rant?
Do it to a human baby and you call it a fucking “choice”.
No. It’s about who gets to choose. Overwhelmingly, most folks would agree you should definitely have no say in such matters.
I’m STILL waiting for somebody to defend the practice of kiling a baby by sticking a pair of scissors in its head. I need somebody to explain why shitforbrains Ginsburg is right in her minority opinion. Any takers?
Read it first, then get back to me, and you’re on.
You’re one sick pup, buddy.
Freeloader fucking Clay Bennet says he’s gonna torture us with one more fucking season of sonics and dykes. Can we get him to leave town TONIGHT after the final game of the season? Just fucking leave.
KTTH interupts O’Reilly to put the fucking sonics on. Who gives a shit…
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003041.php
I bet Dickless Pope is jealous he isn’t getting some of this right wing crook’s legal fees.
Serves this traitor right – having to spend so much on lawyers. Since righties hate lawyers (except when they need one) it has to REALLY hurt. Take that you piece of shit.
Now that we know the UV killer was a conservative (active in the GOP student counsel) what steps will the righties take to make sure there aren’t other wild killers out there working for the GOP?
25.
Nope I wouldn’t let them do it, but it won’t matter because there will be a new King County Elections Director (Hack) tommorrow, who will let them do it.
So open up your carrot patch, the John Deere is coming through!
Makes perfect sense to me, Dave. After all, the bulk of RTA taxes paid by Pierce County voters wind up in King County, so why shouldn’t the Pierce County exec work to ensure the funds are spent wisely? He just wants to look out for his own folks’ interests.
@34 “willfully uninformed and fucking stoopid beyond belief”
Describes wingnuts to perfection. Funny how much these guys mirror themselves in their rants.
@38 You can’t connect the dots on your own clown costume. My comment is about the vacuum between MTR’s ears, and nothing else.
@39 You’ve now got a poster boy for gun rights. Congratulations.
@41 If only we’d be so lucky. This is a dance, and Bennett’s latest whines are merely the opening act. Read Postman’s column in today’s Times to see what comes next. This drama is far from over.
It’s like standing guard duty in fuckin’ Nam. The minute you fall asleep, Clay Bennett (who is the moral equivalent of the Viet Cong) will snatch your wallet. You have to stay awake and watch your back every second until the fucker crawls back into the hole he slithered out of.
@44 I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a professional running elections than a party hack.
Gosh, the all the righteous bullshit flowing through the keyboards of these “Christian” redneck posers, you would have thought that we had won the Iraq war, the social security problem was solved, Herr Presidents market economy had solved all the domestic social ills, and Iraq had rebuilt itself into a peaceful Democracy through their own oil revenue.
But being a Republican means never having to say your sorry for sending 3500 patriotic American soldiers to their needless death. The President spits on our Constitution at every opportunity. His top cop lies with impunity. His chief banker has the moral standards of Idi Amin. He cannot find anybody to execute the Iraq war, because the know it is a completely politicized war.
The only thing the Congress should be doing is impeaching the President. Everything else is bullshit.
And anybody who supports him is a traitor to the Constition.
You forgot to mention he’s a CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE, too.
OOOOh, Mike, you are sooooooo stoooopid!
Every welscher is stoooooopid.
Why is it that Republicans can’t seem to talk about their region when they’re talking about their region?