Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:
7PM: The Stranger Hour with Erica C. Barnett
The Stranger’s Erica C. Barnett joins me for a recap of the week’s local news, and a preview of what’s coming up in the week ahead. (That’s right, ECB can predict the future!) Josh Feit may also join us to give Postman his take on why reporting matters.
8PM: How did Cary carry the day?
When Cary Moon of the People’s Waterfront Coalition first proposed replacing the aging Alaska Way Viaduct with a surface boulevard, the powers that be said she was crazy. Three years later, the “surface plus transit” option is emerging as the consensus solution. Cary joins us for the hour to talk transportation and urban planning, and to explain how she moved her idea from crazy to consensus. It’s a textbook lesson in effective activism.
9PM: Who is Freewayblogger?
Over the past four years Freewayblogger has put over 4,000 anti-war signs along the roads of California and other western states. His travels bring him to Seattle this weekend, and he joins me in the studio to talk about his unusual odyssey. We’ll also be joined by HA co-blogger and Hominid Views proprietor Darryl. But I’m not sure we’ll let him speak.
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
Well whaddya know! Roger Rabbit is posting on HA while Goldy talks on the raaay-deeee-ooooh!!! Another Xmasghost theory is blown to hell.
Jane Balogh has been exposed as a Tim Eyman supporter.
I know when Carrie Moon gets in the paper I should be focused on the story and the issues at hand, but I can’t seem to move my eyeballs from the photos of Carrie to the text.
Goldy, tonight you are a lucky man.
Jane Balogh is a hero and a patriot. Now if we can get her to expose how the KCRE disenfranchises the military voter.
@4 Yes, Doofus, you’re the kind of person who would think submitting a false voter registration for a dog is cool. That’s about your speed. You should ask Ms. Balogh for a date.
(I’m not too worried about Doofus and Balogh getting together because neither of them will figure out how to make kids.)
KCRE doesn’t disenfranchise military voters. But the GOP disenfranchises military voters:
“The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.
“A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.
“Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.
“One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
“Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’ The lists of soldiers of ‘undeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters … to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.
“One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. … [See this scrub sheet at http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.g.....038;size=o ] …
“A soldier returning home in time to vote in November 2004 could also be challenged on the basis of the returned envelope. Soldiers challenged would be required to vote by ‘provisional’ ballot. Over one million provisional ballots cast in the 2004 race were never counted; over half a million absentee ballots were also rejected. The extraordinary rise in the number of rejected ballots was the result of the widespread multi-state voter challenge campaign by the Republican Party. …
“The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. A check of the demographics of the addresses on the ‘caging lists,’ as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes.
“Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: ‘The only thing I can think of – African American voters listed like this – these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.’ …
“The Republican National Committee in Washington refused our several requests to respond to the BBC discovery. … The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. … Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law. … While the party insisted the lists were not created for the purpose to challenge Black voters, the GOP ultimately offered no other explanation for the mailings. …
“Soldiers sending in their ballot from abroad would not know their vote was lost because of a challenge.”
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Doofus probably figures if he repeats that lie about military voters often enough, he’ll eventually believe it. No one else believes it, though. Nor should they, because it’s a fabrication from the GOP noise machine.
The 2004 election proved one thing to an absolute certainty: Of the proved felon votes cast in King County in 2004, 80% were Republican votes for Rossi and 20% were Libertarian votes cast for whoever.
IT’S GOING TO COME OUT SOONER OR LATER IN DETAIL ABOUT HOW THE GOP SUPPRESSED THE VOTES OF MINORITY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN IN 2004.
YOU WON’T HEAR A WORD ABOUT THAT FROM DOOFUS.
The “surface-transit option” is not an option at all because there is not adequate transit in place, now or planned. It is not any “consensus position,” Cary Moon has not “carried any day,” and on this issue, Goldy is a Horse’s Ass.
11 Let’s see….from where do you get your authoritative information that there’ll never be “adequate transit”? Or are you somehow implying that we couldn’t possibly provide it in the same time frame that it would take to build the New Viaduct On Steroids or Mayor Greg’s Big Hole In The Ground?
8 This seems to be a common characteristic of the right-wing screech monkeys. They don’t seem to have noticed that they’re the only ones who believe their own bullshit.
The fucking dog story gets all kinds of play. The Republican emails outlining their illegal”caging” of voters gets no play.
The RNC, since 1986, has been under legal sanctions for voter fraud.
Why is this not front page news?
Ivan @11,
Here on HA, we like to try to keep political discourse above the level of petty name calling.
(Just kidding, of course.)
The state won’t pay for a tunnel, and the city won’t accept a rebuild. What the November vote bought us was the time to rethink Viaduct replacement, and see if we can come up with a transit and street improvement plan that will make a surface solution work.
I remain open to being convinced that Seattle is indeed unique, that a surface plan can’t work, and that only a freeway through our waterfront can meet our needs. But you stating that it “is not an option” is not convincing.
Goldy @ 15:
Repair the Viaduct until transit is in place. The Viaduct is a state highway, in place, and the city does not have jack shit to say about it.
Get the transit in place. Everything else is bullshit. Traffic has to roll, despite what wackaloons like Cary Moon and Erica C. Barnett say. Why would you want to be like them? It’s hardly a sound career move.
Show us the transit first.
@10 You will, however, hear about it from Roger Rabbit. I’ll never let those rightwing bastards forget how shabbily the GOP treated our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
@14 Guess who owns the so-called “liberal” media?
But don’t worry, the dog story will go away as soon as the rightwing editors who control the rightwing MSM figure out that Jane Balogh is one of theirs and not one of ours.
Ivan, it occurs to me that a politics-based decision-making process is probably the worst possible way to design a traffic arterial, but that’s the process we’ve got, so be prepared to live with whatever emits from it.
Roger Rabbit @ 20:
Oh, I’m prepared to live with it, but as long as it’s a politics-based decision-making process, I intend to play.
Charlie Smith the Seattle Times posted differing numbers on Felon Votes. But the ‘Bats on this board choose to ignore the Seattle Times. >50% of the Felon votes they found were DONK!
I’d post the link (posted it before) but Cluelessman would call it right-wing bullshit!
Some seem to think I am a Republican – wrong! Democrat? Wrong! All I want are representatives to act like an American for America, not a bunch of PC folks who put every other entity before our citizenry, the sanctity of our vote and the safety of our country. Just think of how this could play out…. Get a voters registration by submitting a utility bill, use the voters card to get a drivers license and the doors are open to get other forms of identification showing citizenship. Now we have people, maybe wishing to do us harm, running around doing whatever they please. I called and wrote Olympia and other politicians before I registered Duncan. I never did get an answer. Where does an ordinary citizen turn for help with concerns about an issue?