As of 11:08 pm, King County Election Division reports that with 97% of precincts in:
The latte tax has been vaporized, 68% - 32%, while the marijuana initiative has passed 59% - 41%
The top two vote getters in each city council race will run off in November. Most notably, septuagenarian former Seattle Times gossip columnist Jean Godden beat out the three best people in the race to topple Judy Nicastro.
| #1 | #5 | #7 | #9 | |
| First Place | Nicastro | Pageler | Wills | Compton |
| Second Place | Godden | Rasmussen | Della | Manning |
| Alki Foundation | Rosencrantz | Pageler | - | Compton |
| Seattle Times | Min Rosencrantz | Pageler | Della | Compton |
| Seattle P-I | Smith | Pageler | Wood | Manning |
| Seattle Weekly | Nicastro | Thompson | Della | - |
| The Stranger | Nicastro | Falkenbury | Wills | Manning |
| Shark Blog | Min | Pageler | Della | Manning |
Meanwhile, in the school board races, barking lunatic anti-chocolate milk activist Brita Butler-Wall pulled off a regrettably strong finish. The November school board race will be at large.
| #1 | #2 | #3 | #6 | |
| First Place | Peterson | Flynn | Butler-Wall | Stewart |
| Second Place | Soriano | Brown | Waldman | Hoagland |
| Alki Foundation | Peterson | Flynn | Waldman | Stewart Hoagland |
| Seattle Times | Peterson | Flynn | Waldman | Stewart |
| Seattle P-I | Cardamone | Flynn | Butler-Wall | Moroles |
| Seattle Weekly | Peterson | Flynn | Butler-Wall | Stewart |
| The Stranger | Cardamone | Flynn | Butler-Wall | Stewart |
| Seattle Education Ass. | - | Flynn | Butler-Wall | Stewart Hoagland |
| Shark Blog | Peterson | Brown | Waldman | - |
"Baghdad Bob" Ferguson has narrowly upset 20-year County Council incumbent Cynthia Sullivan. Hank Bradley points out that this isn't the worst thing that could have happened.
The unchallenged Kool-aid drinkers will remain in control of the Seattle Unpopular Monorail Authority. If you want to help me kill this boondoggle, more of you will have to write in my name in the November election.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 17, 2003 12:13 AMGo out and have a mocha for me!
Posted by: Mike Silverman on September 17, 2003 09:32 AMWell the latte cup is half full.
I'm glad the tax failed, not because I begrudge the dimes my wife would pay (i hate caffeine), but due to the burden that it drops onto the backs of small business owners, about $500 a year in accounting expense.
I'm disgusted abt the don't-note-the-dope initiative and am certain this is going to mean I will have to move away, upwind.
Not because I begrudge adults voluntarily lowering their IQs and getting lung cancer, but due to the burden that it drops onto the backs of police officers and taxpayers.
An 11-member panel to make sure the cops aren't bogarting people for pot?
Police with reams of papers to roll to HQ? That's a drag. The clock chimes: bong bong...bong bong...
If your surgeon was about to operate on you and you found out that he had a beer the night before, would you be worried?
How about if he was high the night before? Of course you'd be worried. Same for your pilot, your accountant on the day of an audit, etc etc etc
Ok, so not everyone is a doctor. Then what this means is the tetrahydrocanninibol opiate of the masses is for the proletariat-- for flunkies. The bourgeoisie are too important and valuable to allow to wile away their brutish existence with marijuana.
Posted by: bleeding heart conservative on September 17, 2003 11:28 AMI made a note after the above making it clear the commie-like comments were tongue in cheek, but apparently html doesn't allow for double dash arrow! ooops.
I do hate the fact that the police now have a mountain of crap to deal with, when they were already making pot a low priority. So now they have to administratively demonstrate that it was the lowest priority. How inane. I75 was a solution in search of a problem.
Thanks to author for this blog
Posted by: steel buildings on April 8, 2005 10:54 PM