The folks at Shift survived Windmageddon 2016 with only one brief power outage – in well-managed Seattle, of course – and are prepared for another week. Fortunately the storm ended up like the media’s approach to Hillary Clinton’s ever-growing WikiGate scandal – just much ado about nothing.
Despite far less interest from mainstream media in her contemporary troubles compared with Donald Trump’s latest tawdry history revelations, we are enjoying watching the squirming on the liberal side as they try to prepare for whatever daily embarrassment comes out from what they thought were private emails. Whether it’s Hillary’s closest advisors complaining about Chelsea Clinton’s interference with their pay-to-play schemes at the Clinton Foundation, or her campaign’s behind-the-scenes collusion with the Democrat Party to take down Senator Bernie Sanders – how dare he run against the chosen one, Hillary – there always seems to be something fun coming from WikiLeaks, err, the Russians.
Closer to home, more bad news – some might call it the truth – continues to hamper Sound Transit’s campaign for permanent tax increases for its $54 billion dollar light-rail boondoggle. Shift highlighted how the agency’s math just doesn’t add up (nothing new there), and how they just keep unethically spending public money to help the campaign to raise taxes for trains to be running in 25 years (also nothing new). Rest assured the Shift spotlight will continue to be bright on Sound Transit’s campaign of deception.
We also raised the curtain a bit on the deception coming out of the campaign to raise taxes to give politicians your money for their campaigns. The rich out-of-state liberals behind I-1464 are hoping no one notices the blatant hypocrisy of them using their big money to get the big money they don’t like (you know, bad corporate money) out of politics.
The two Democrats running to succeed Jim McDermott in Congress were also hoping no one would notice their extreme ignorance when it came to the source of the power that lights up Seattle – hydropower. But, Shift was happy to point out that Pramila Jayapal and Brady Walkinshaw don’t know too damn much about dams.
We’ll be happy to keep pointing out liberal hypocrisy and big-government excesses in the closing 21 days until the general election. Keep tuned in.