Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels starts the conversation on
Seattle "inside baseball " politics Sound Transit's Prop. 1 ballot measure and mass transportation. The conversation then turns to the piles and piles of money dumped (sometimes illegally) into in the Washington state gubernatorial race. Will Rossi and surrogates succeeded in unifying the haters? And why hasn’t the BIAW been enjoined from spending more money on the race? Goldy laments the lack of editorial outrage from the traditional media over flagrant violations of election financing laws. The panel chit-chats about other races, like the presidential race and the Burner--Reichert race. Goldy, in response to the PI’s endorsement of Reichert, offers the proposition that the Seattle media establishment suffers from mediocrity. With two journalists on the panel, the comment triggers something of a group therapy session....
Goldy was joined by Chairman of the
Sound Transit Board of Directors and Seattle
Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle P-I columnist
Joel Connelly, Publisher of the Group News Blog,
Jesse Wendel, HorsesAss reporter
Josh Feit , and Seattle blogging pioneer
N in Seattle.
The show is 65:16, and is
available here as an MP3.
[Recorded live at the Seattle chapter of
Drinking Liberally. Special thanks to
Confab creators
Gavin and
Richard for hosting
the site.]
