The race for Seattle City Council is filled with a plethora of far-left candidates who are more than willing to carry on the legacy of irresponsible, big government that so defines the city of Seattle. That’s what makes far-left candidate Bill Bradburd’s reason for running so very odd.
Bradburd, who describes himself as a neighborhood activist, is for one of the council’s two citywide seats this year. Bradburd is particularly concerned with high-density real estate development in Seattle’s residential neighborhoods. His website states he wants to “aggressively invest in new housing for those that cannot afford what ‘the market’ produces” (he puts the market in quotations… take that as you will.)
Really, it’s what any member of the Seattle City Council would tell you. It’s the real estate developers and all around corporate bad-guys who are the problem, not the crippling regulations that have plagued the city. Bradburd is taking a line out of socialist Kshama Sawant’s playbook, exhibiting contempt for the market while pushing a far-left agenda.
But, Bradburd seems to think he is different. His campaign slogan proudly declares, “Take Seattle Back!”
Of course, the obvious follow-up question is back from what? Seattle is already in the hands of people like Bradburd. There is no need for Bradburd to “take Seattle back” to the far-left. If that’s why Bradburd is really running, he might as well save his time and money.
… the crippling regulations that have plagued the city.
Examples of which would be… ?
Bradburd is taking a line out of socialist Kshama Sawant’s playbook…
A candidate for the City Council is imitating a recently-elected member of that same City Council? How very, very odd of him to do such an outrageous thing!
Keep on shifting the debate in Olympia by, um, making vague and obvious statements about Seattle. Yeah, that’ll work…
I had the misfortune to be on Capitol Hill the other day and I saw this gem: A red poster that said 2 things, “Tax the rich” and “Reelect Kshama Sawant” What a simpleton.
Our District 3 race has already become the most expensive of the seven district races, despite it being the physically smallest district. It appears to be attracting a lot of money from outside the district and city. It seems our election of Council Member Sawant has provoked much opposition from outside interests.
Perhaps you could help explain why. For a guy who brags loudly about his disdain for Seattle, you seem to spend a fair amount of time here, and you seem to have intense feelings about our politics.
I don’t know why it’s the most expensive race. Give a kid a box of red crayons and he could churn the tsarina’s signs all day long for next to nothing. Of course she wouldn’t be paying anybody $15/hr to do it. And why red, comrade? All they’re lacking is a hammer and sickle. That would play well with you and the rest of the lowest common denominator crowd.
I’m eternally grateful I escaped Seattle when I had a chance but unfortunately work takes me back once or twice a month. Rest assured, I spend as little time as possible in the loony leftist hellhole.
… work takes me back once or twice a month.
How can that possibly be? I thought Seattle was plagued by “loony ideas”, which are part of a “War on Jobs” waged by “far-left” politicians who know nothing about how an economy really works?
Your paying to publish such opinions here, while your own behavior belies every supposed basis for those opinions, just adds to the hilarity. Thanks for (more) laughs!
“Perhaps you could ask those anti-American Bolsheviks at The Coca-Cola
Company about the advertising advantage of red”
Perhaps Coca-Cola used it before those anti-American Bolsheviks hijacked for their own purposes. Kinda like in the Christmas carol “Deck the Halls”, the line “don we now our gay apparel” doesn’t mean get into a leather thong with a rainbow mohawk while toting a dildo. You yourself have accused me of “red-baiting”. What does that mean? Am I trying to get you to buy more Coke? Are you seriously that dense? What’s your tsarina’s excuse? Does she really like Coke or is she crazy about communism?
Seattle is plagued by loony ideas, which are part of a War on Jobs waged by far-left politicians who know nothing about how an economy really works. Your analysis is spot on. However, if a Seattle leftist wants to pay my going rate plus a loony liberal surcharge, I’ll gladly take their money. That’s how Capitalism works. Not that you’d know.
Perhaps Coca-Cola used it before those anti-American Bolsheviks hijacked for their own purposes.
Then again, maybe they didn’t. Facts — who cares how they work?
Seattle is plagued by loony ideas, which are part of a War on Jobs waged by far-left politicians who know nothing about how an economy really works. Your analysis is spot on.
And yet, you keep coming here, for no other reason than to make money via capitalism. Why aren’t you raking in the dough in places like Kettle Falls, WA, or the great state of Mississippi? They’re not plagued by “crippling regulations,” like lefty Seattle, are they? They must be economic paradises, right?
However, if a Seattle leftist wants to pay my going rate plus a loony liberal surcharge, I’ll gladly take their money.
And if they read your many abusive remarks about Seattle, and they so decide to take their business to someone else, are you going to rant about how they are a bunch of Communists?
Or because it represents the blood from hell that runs in her coal of a hart?
Who is Bradburd going to “take back Seattle” from?
I find Seattle interesting. Why?? People gripe and whine about Seattles’ far left views and actions, yet, the whiners are still there. When will there be an exodus? Never!! People just love it there; in the far left swill they keep whining about.
I am wondering when Seattle will pick up the Hammer and Sickle. They live under it anyway, so go figure.
Seattle has become a very dirty city, the mayor has done a terrible job since taking office. So much filth, it’s a shame it’s not like the rest of the evergreen state.