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Press Release Roundup

News   October 15, 2009 at 5:14 pm Josh Feit

No PRR today. We’re just too busy. (For example, please check out Erica’s scoop about several homeless people’s claims that they were coerced into participating in SHARE’s recent protests at the mayor’s house and at several council members’ houses.)

We don’t want  you to go without video, though.

So, here’s yet another campaign spot. This one from Sierra Club activist Mike O’Brien, who’s running against landlord Robert Rosencrantz for retiring council member Richard McIver’s seat.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDgv-KHfiwU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]


  • Jacob

    Press Release of the campaign cycle is out and there is no PRR today?!?!?! It’s going to be brutal to watch Dow on the debates, he has lost all credibility.

  • Jacob

    Press Release of the campaign cycle is out and there is no PRR today?!?!?! It’s going to be brutal to watch Dow on the debates, he has lost all credibility.

  • http://publicola.net/ Josh Feit

    @1,

    Are you talking about Susan Hutchison’s press release about Constantine’s emails saying he’d vote against the flood district?

    Pretty hot.

    Keith Ervin @ the Seattle Times did pick that one up:
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2010073324_e-mail_constantine_was_prepare.html

    I don’t think he gave it a grade, though.

  • http://publicola.net/ Josh Feit

    @1,

    Are you talking about Susan Hutchison’s press release about Constantine’s emails saying he’d vote against the flood district?

    Pretty hot.

    Keith Ervin @ the Seattle Times did pick that one up:
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2010073324_e-mail_constantine_was_prepare.html

    I don’t think he gave it a grade, though.

  • http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ Mr.Baker

    Got my pre-election Mallahan mailer today.
    One side is sunshine and the flip-side is McGinn dark clouds.
    Classic.

    Plenty of pols make the mistake of packing the flipside with details that are not going to get read before the card makes that 15 second trek to the recycle bin.

  • Jacob

    @ 2

    Yes, that is the one…I’m glad at least one media outlet picked it up…I look forward to your post later today/tomorrow :-)

  • Jacob

    @ 2

    Yes, that is the one…I’m glad at least one media outlet picked it up…I look forward to your post later today/tomorrow :-)

  • flwa

    Sooooooooooo…how about a preliminary grade? You gotta give em an A+, right? Has Dow responded with a press release of his own? This is so bad for him…

  • flwa

    Sooooooooooo…how about a preliminary grade? You gotta give em an A+, right? Has Dow responded with a press release of his own? This is so bad for him…

  • DoctorD

    Look, I remember when Phillips sent an email to the exec, with BF and others in tow, that would have denied certain parks funding if Larry didn’t get what he wanted. I don’t recall any press about those negotiations.

    This, for those of you who are unaware, is how deals are made. Moreover, regardless or who’s in charge it always will be.

    So, nothing to see here. Move along…

  • DoctorD

    Look, I remember when Phillips sent an email to the exec, with BF and others in tow, that would have denied certain parks funding if Larry didn’t get what he wanted. I don’t recall any press about those negotiations.

    This, for those of you who are unaware, is how deals are made. Moreover, regardless or who’s in charge it always will be.

    So, nothing to see here. Move along…

  • flwa

    @6

    Except denying certain parks funding doesn’t risk peoples’ homes and lives. You don’t play politics with this. He got called out earlier on his tactics. He flat-out denied it. He lied. Now he’s been caught in a lie, and he’s trying to say that it was taken out of context. I don’t know how you take it any other way. In order for him to vote for the flood district, he demanded votes for his pet project, the ferry district. This is unfortunate at a whole other level as he has since recognized and admitted the financial boondoggle that project turned out to be.

  • flwa

    @6

    Except denying certain parks funding doesn’t risk peoples’ homes and lives. You don’t play politics with this. He got called out earlier on his tactics. He flat-out denied it. He lied. Now he’s been caught in a lie, and he’s trying to say that it was taken out of context. I don’t know how you take it any other way. In order for him to vote for the flood district, he demanded votes for his pet project, the ferry district. This is unfortunate at a whole other level as he has since recognized and admitted the financial boondoggle that project turned out to be.

  • http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ Mr.Baker

    Got my pre-election Mallahan mailer today.
    One side is sunshine and the flip-side is McGinn dark clouds.
    Classic.

    Plenty of pols make the mistake of packing the flipside with details that are not going to get read before the card makes that 15 second trek to the recycle bin.