On Monday, KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson finally succeeded in getting socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant on his show—something Monson has been trying to do since Sawant stood him up in November 2013.
Unfortunately for Monson, his interview didn’t last all that long. After coming on 10 minutes late, Sawant proceeded to hang-up on Monson after only a few minutes.
Monson had Sawant on to discuss Seattle City Light CEO Jorge Carrasco’s outrageous $60,000 pay raise on top of his $245,000 per year salary. Monson and Sawant started off in agreement on the topic of raising the salary of Seattle’s already highest paid city employee, both expressing their disapproval.
But, it didn’t take long before Monson managed to find an area of disagreement with Seattle’s socialist councilmember. Monson asked Sawant “about a few other people she’s associated with that make pretty hefty paychecks” including powerful union bosses the likes of SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry and AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka.
Sawant refused to condemn the high salaries of union bosses, dodging the question by repeatedly referring back to the “excesses of Wall Street executives.” When Monson pushed for a yes or no answer, Sawant hung up.
Check out the short interview and Monson’s humorous reaction below:
After realizing her mistake, Sawant attempted to make amends and answer Monson’s question on KIRO’s The Jason Rantz Show. However, Sawant never actually gave a “yes” or “no” answer. She instead stuck to her talking points.
I’m so surprised, and liberals need to brought to account on this, they scream at others for making money, but it’s okay if they do…. the top list of financial contributors in the US, is filled with Democrats (Soros being the biggest) and unions, the Koch Brothers are at the bottom of the top 10… I’m just saying, if you are going to complain about something, at least be fair about it.
Since 1989, 7 of the top 10 contributors to political campaigns have been Democrat or left-leaning, primarily labor unions. The other three split their contributions almost evenly between the parties. The top donor favoring Republicans, UPS, ranked 17th on the contributions list. Among the top 20 donors, 13 are explicitly Democrat or progressive.
Democrats receive an enormous advantage because their union allies can extract money from members’ paychecks to make donations and support outside spending. Businesses have to actively solicit campaign donations from their employees. It is no surprise, then, that 12 of the top 20 political donors over the last few decades have been labor unions.
Until the Citizens United decision, wealthy individuals were greatly limited in how much they could spend to support any specific campaign. After the landmark ruling, individuals were able to donate unlimited amounts of money, even if it only supported one candidate. In the 2010 elections, conservatives had a temporary edge in SuperPac spending. Six of the top 10 SuperPacs were conservative. Keep in mind, progressives maintained their edge in all other campaign spending.
Now, wealthy progressives are stepping up to form SuperPacs, extending the left’s financial advantage to these now political entities. Leftist billionaire Tom Steyer is pledging to spend $100 million on the climate change issue in the midterms. For the 2014 elections, six of the top 10 spending SuperPacs, so far, are left-leaning. Three of the top 4 conservatives PACs are dedicated to specific candidates. In terms of amounts raised so far, the top 5 SuperPacsare left-leaning.
The left’s advantage on campaign spending is only a small part of the financial edge progressives hold in our political dialogue. Massive foundations like Ford and Robert Wood Johnson spending hundreds of millions a year promoting left causes and making the case for expanded government. This spending doesn’t explicitly influence an election, but it goes a long way toward setting the policy framework for elections.
But they need that lead in fund raising for 2 reasons, 1) it’s hard to shovel that much bullshit without using a lot of shovels. and 2) most of them don’t have real jobs, and they need that money to live on, especially if they don’t get elected *remember, Bill and Hillary left the White House broke…
Not just broke, DEAD Broke. We should really take up a collection for her.
Nah, I’ll take up a collection for my broke ass, LONG before I do ANYTHING for her besides sit on the jury that convicts her…
Care to share, what you feel she needs to be convicted of ?
No, because I will not spend any more of my time wasting it responding to you, you aren’t interested in an exchange of ideas, or a debate.
I see you have nothing intelligent to say & are obviously mad your mother weaned you.
Hating women a past-time or your full time moronic activity ??
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA ! Call a little “man” on your BS & you pout !!!!
Get over it, tea twit.
Yep,
Labor union don’t have jobs, right wing nut slob ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA !!
Money comes from workers contributions, tea tw@t !
Actually,
Unions can’t use dues to contribute politically & the money donated is by American workers & taxpayers IE your neighbors….
Funny, you morons keep pretending a small minority buys elections, when it takes a 515 thousand workers to equal one Koch sucker..
DISMISSED, come back to summer school.
How many workers does it take to equal a George Soros?
SO, you’re obviously a nanny stater, without an intelligent point….
LMAO !
Koch sucker, huh ???
Haha, your comment isn’t even relevant to my question.
You might as well plug your ears and say, “I can’t hear you, nah nah nah nah naaaah naaaaaaaah”.
Yeah,
When you ask a question, strangers “better” jump with answers, right nanny starter ??
LMAO !
Workers vote with Soros, son…. We’re against the awful polluters = you Koch suckers….
What do you mean by workers? I work but don’t vote with Soros because he represents Big Government. The Republicans were Big Government under W. Bush but thankfully have understood we need to moderate defense spending.
And I bet my car gets better gas mileage than your’s so who’s the “awful polluter”?
You’d be a blathering idiot, in person….
Communists don’t have the power to debate. They swoop in, hit ya with their bullcrap, and then leave.
yeah they leave with all your money, why else has it always been when communists, or socialist take over they at the top of the party are always super super rich, while the rest of the nation suffers in poverty. Socialism, and Liberalism, and Communism are nothing more than a giant ponsey scheme meant to strip the hard working of there pay on the premise of a better life, they are simply there to take advantage of morons, people of low IQ, and in breeds.
Was this your example of “debate” ?
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!! BULLCRAP IS RIGHT !!!!
sweet
SOCIALISTS ARE COMMUNISTS AND THEY DO NOT DEBATE! THEY OBFUSCATE!
she is also quite well off herself; for those of you that are not aware… she is married to a Microsoftie with lost of bucks!!
And yet, Seattle put her on the council. Good luck Seattle.
A firebrand of a woman, hated…of course, by wing nuts world wide. Because every teahadist twit hates mommy for WEANING !!
Always wondered, why do you twits call childish, made up, names…was 2nd grade your pinnacle ?
LMAO !
Says the guy who has the childish, made up name.
And firebrand as in “one that creates unrest or strife”. Political frauds are like that.
Says the “man”, that uses name calling as discussion ?
Says the “guy” who makes no sense about name calling ion a discussion. Of has one hell of a comprehension problem. Read much?
Boring & stupid, teahadist, huh ?
Says the “guy” just two posts ago accused me of name calling that I didn’t do. Hypocrisy much?
Sure, calling someone a fraud isn’t name calling & your radio guy has every “right” to harass Kshama Sawant about union official’s pay, that she has no responsibility for setting.
Funny, $300K is “excessive” for union officials, but Doris makes much more as a “talking head”.
What the hell do you care if I called Sawanta fraud? Are you her daddy? Sawant is the one here that is making big noise about who is making what $$-wise while her hubby drags down six figures. Who cares what Monson makes? Better yet, do you know? Sawant could have simply said “Yes, I do stand with a union leader making 300K a year.” But she chose to hang up. Did he ask her twice? Now THAT would really be nasty!! Look Robin, you’re just an juvenile apologist for somebody you’ve seen on TV. Maybe from about 10 feet away in a crowd when she had a rally. Following and defending frauds is big on your agenda. Not me. Goodbye.
Oh poor baby,
Your rude radio host boyfriend was hung up on ? Give him an extra kissy on the bo bo for us….
LMAO !
Internet tw@t.
Less that a day back, you called no names, numbskull…
Better get your meds checked, I think your head’s cracked. …Right wing ???
As for her making noise, she voted against a pay raise for the city light leader, your radio “host” wanted to make something big outta it & Kshama Sawant hung up….. Simple, simpleton pup…
LMAO !
I like to call her Communist Connie. (I want to see Robin’s head explode with that name.) 😀
You see folks on Discus ??
As “intelligent” as any of your posts, pea brain putz…
LMAO !
So, a woman outearns you, right ??? Annoying ???
LMAO !
You’re bitching about name calling and used “teahadist twits” and “wing nuts”. And THEN you continue with, “why do you twits call childish made-up names… was 2nd grade your pinnacle?” Hey Pot, meet Kettle.
No, those aren’t names, they’re DESCRIPTIONS, teahadist tw@t.
We need to get rid of this commie!!
I Pray London will keep her!
Why should she debate a rude azz ?
How was he rude? He simply pointed out that she stands shoulder to shoulder with big $$ taken from the workers. Big money I’d like to point out that does very little to earn it.
It seems to me that she was the rude one, being 10 minutes late for a radio interview. Timing is very important in radio.
Also, her claim that she takes only a small portion of her actual pay home is some sort of sacrifice or solidity is complete hog wash as her hubby works for a pretty famous (Capitalist) tech company and drags in plenty more than that average person. She could go without pay entirely and it wouldn’t hurt her at all. What I’d like to see is her hubby donate all but 40K of his salary and she go without any at all (donate the whole thing). She might as well live like the working class as long as she’s condemning everybody else for making to much $$.
He repeated questions, she answered & her personal finances, let alone her husband’s… aren’t your $$$ to spend, comrade.
He repeated questions!!!???? Why that dirty b@stard!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Boy, Commies are sure thin skinned! But, when you challenge any dictatorial do-gooder in the 1% they do get testy. Ha! Ha! Ha! You really crack me up Robin. You aren’t my old neighbor are you? Seriously. Pat is this you? Hell, of a joke buddy!
He had a guest, if you don’t know how to treat guests, you’re a moron….
Sorry, I feel bad to have to break the news…
Says the “guy” who just got all teary-eyed, a couple of posts down, about name calling I didn’t do. Jeez Robin, you’ve really hurt my feelings now. Stop it.
LMAO !~
Reading is fun & name calling Kshama Sawant gets you the same….
You’d like to tell other people what to do with their $$$? Seems fair, can WE start with you?
As for radio timing, it’s not like they can play music, do news, or banter….
They should refuse to pay her…oh yeah, the only one paid was the rude azz.
SO, you’re commenting on her husbands wages ???
Perfect IRONY !!!
Isn’t it weird that to be a member of the top 1 percent of
income-earners in the US, you actually have to be making over 380,000 in individual
income per year? So technically, that puts Sawant well in the bottom 99
percent. But I guess that you won’t be bothered by technicalities if
you’re just trying to slander someone without any basis in facts and
figures. On the other hand, if you want to be serious about posting
“intelligently”, it helps to do things like asking the question, ‘what
does it take to put someone in the top 1 percent?’ What are the figures?
Just so you don’t look like an idiot.
So somebody who makes $379999 is in the bottom 99%. Do you really want to use that as a talking point?
And what her husband makes is very much relevant when she wants to claim to be here for the people and is against big business. Is she making a sacrifice by giving up a portion of her salary? HELL NO!!! Get a better argument.
Actually, SUCK to be stupid ??
Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant will take $40,000 after taxes of her $117,000 salary and put the remaining money into a “Solidarity Fund” to support her causes, Sawant announced on Monday.
Kshama Sawant: “My place is with the working people and their struggles.”
“Every Council member faces a choice who they represent and which world they inhabit: My place is with working people and their
struggles,” Sawant said in a statement.
A couple quick points. Sawant is going to drag the Democrats in Seattle way left and potentially create the first opening for Republicans to step into the middle since the 1980’s. This isn’t that different from what the T Party is doing in super red districts… the only difference being they don’t elect economic arsonists.
The minimum wage hike if contained to Seattle will not significantly damage the city economy. Sure it’s going to put some small businesses out of business, but the Seattle economy is built around large business not small. Those who are sensitive to the wage hike will move to Bellevue or Renton dragging jobs and revenue with them. It will also make shopping and eating in Seattle much more expensive, which will also drive a percentage of people to other areas for these activities. This could heavily benefit conservative areas.
Despite being a Libertarian, I support Sawant. Not simply because she bashes Democrats, but because like myself and unlike Democrats… I think she actually cares about people. She may be wrong headed in her policy application, but she is trying to do good. Democrats are generally more of a neo-fascist group, much more interested in power than people.