If you listen closely you can hear the sound of the Sound Transit PR machine spinning slowly into a higher gear now that Labor Day has passed. Shift features today the latest example of its work, a Publicola-published editorial from Seattle City Council member Lorena Gonzalez extolling the (cough, cough) congestion-relieving aspects of the Sound Transit proposition on this fall’s ballot. If voters will fall for that, they might also think that the bureaucrats in the city of Seattle will be able to successfully implement the many anti-business laws which the city council has been passing in recent years – though the experience Shift reports on which Seattle City Light and Public Utility customers experienced earlier this week might argue otherwise.
Also worthy of argument, or at least head-scratching, is why Gonzaga would hire a communications professor – who was fired from her previous post for being anti First-Amendment – to lecture its students on communication? And finally, you’ll certainly get no argument from those who wonder why Jay Inslee actually does so little work, once they find out he is already receiving retirement pay from Congress. Now we know that taxpayers get to pay Jay twice for not doing much!