Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is going to China to promote business and trade with the city — and that’s liberal hypocrisy on parade.
Why?
Because of certain instances of grandstanding the mayor has been guilty of lately.
Earlier this year Murray banned all city-employee travel to the North Carolina via an executive order, after the state passed a law that prevents all cities and counties from passing certain bathroom rules. Prior to that, he banned travel to Indiana for a law passed there.
As KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson points out, Murray’s trip to China is “more proof that the mayor cares more for grandstanding than substantive progressive ideals he often promotes.” Monson:
“Can somebody explain to me why Mayor Ed Murray is going to China which has far more draconian LGBT laws than Indiana and North Carolina have even dreamed of? The stunning hypocrisy of this. The mayor says ‘can’t go to Indiana, can’t go to North Carolina. Oh, by the way, I’m going to China…
“In China, they don’t even allow gay marriage… He couldn’t care less about gay rights or LGBT rights. All he cares about is grandstanding. Because there was a trendy movement to ban North Carolina and Indiana travel; he wanted to be ahead of the trend. But when it comes to China there is business interest that is far more important than gay or LGBT rights.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the stunning hypocrisy of liberals.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship which had long abused the rights of its citizens. Our trade brings our ideas, which may help improve the human rights situation there. What’s North Carolina’s excuse?
Oh, and Mr. Monson can go back to complaining how Seattle’s complicated traffic lights hurt his poor little head, and he can thus leave foreign policy to the mentally competent.
Wouldn’t travel to North Carolina bring our ideas, which may help improve the egregious “human rights” situation there? If our ideas may keep China from imprisoning and murdering dissidents, why couldn’t they also keep North Carolina from imprisoning and murdering people that use the wrong bathroom? It seems like a strongly worded symbolic gesture is in order here, but that might put a crimp in Special Ed’s plans for a taxpayer funded China vacation. Maybe he will take Greenie with him. He could tour one of their many coal-fired power plants and watch it belch carbon into the atmosphere.
Apparently your position is a mayor of a municipality should be more concerned about foreign trade policy, that he can do nothing about, than transportation in the city he was elected to serve. Sounds about right, comrade.
Wouldn’t travel to North Carolina bring our ideas,
The population who voted for Jesse Helms can understand ideas?
The population under control of Xi Jinping can understand ideas?
If Shift wants us to believe it cares about the human rights of gays, it can start by rebuking commenters who refer to gays as “deviants”.
Until then, nobody who is actually eligible to vote for Mayor Murray will take Shift seriously on this topic.
Look tensor, I am eligible to vote for Ed Murray. I just don’t see why anyone would vote for someone who can’t complete a sentence without using the word “actually.” Good luck with this city. I hope one day you get taxed out of it. Until then, just keep believing that the socialist that run this city care about you, not your money. You. They do take your money… Seriously.
I hope one day you get taxed out of it.
Your tender concern for your fellow man is duly noted; it’s one of the more attractive traits seen around here of late.
Also, people are not getting “taxed” out of Seattle; rather, Seattle’s booming economy is causing rents to rise to unprecedented levels, pushing lower-paid workers to the margins. Maybe someday you will have an ideology which allows you to admit facts; until then, you’ll just have to keep worrying about non-problems, while ignoring real issues.
(If you really are concerned about my taxes, please go ask all those conservative Republicans in Eastern Washington when they’ll finally begin paying their fair share. King County’s taxpayers receive just sixty-five cents for every dollar in tax paid to Olympia, while most Republican counties receive far more state government services than they pay in taxes.)
Ok tensor. I only want you to get taxed out of this city if you are voting for these socialist hypocrites. Then you would deserve it. If you’re not voting for these dip-shits than I only wish you the best. If we are going to go by our mayor’s ideology, and it sounds like you share the same, we only have Ronald Reagan to thank for our “booming economy.” If slow Eddie blames our “homeless crisis” on the greatest president of my generation then he cannot deny that Ronald Reagan is responsible for our states fortunes. Of course I wouldn’t expect mayor Murray to ever admit that. Please just tell me how he’s going to solve our homeless problem by blaming it on an anti-socialist Republican, who hasn’t held office in over 25 years, and spending millions of dollars of money that is taken from his subjects, along with the people that employ his subjects, just to move said homeless people from place to place. At least the people to the east of our state know how to get what they pay for. As the great George Costanza once said “it’s not a lie… If you believe it.”
At least the people to the east of our state know how to get what they pay for.
Uh, the point is they are *not* paying for many of the benefits they receive — including a huge amount of straight-up welfare.
So, are you ok with my getting “taxed out of Seattle” if those taxes pay to provide welfare for Republican voters in Eastern Washington?
How do you know republicans get welfare
By knowing how our state government actually works:
According to 2008 budget figures compiled by the state’s Office of Financial Management at the request of Representatives Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle) and Glenn Anderson (R-Fall City), King County, with roughly 29 percent of the state population, produced 42 percent of state tax revenues, yet it received back less than 26 percent of state benefits. That’s a return of only 62 cents on the dollar for our state’s Democratic stronghold.
Compare that to the generous $3.16 return on each dollar enjoyed by taxpayers in hard Republican Ferry County in deep northeastern Washington. All in all, only six counties qualified as “net donors” to the rest of the state—San Juan, King, Skagit, Kittitas, Whatcom, and Snohomish—while the remaining 33 counties enjoyed an average return on investment of over $1.40 on every tax dollar sent to Olympia.
I see you know what you are talking about. Maybe if WA buys more local produced fruits and vegetables those poor bastards would be less inclined to receive welfare, than again, once hooked on free entitlements, it is like drugs very hard to let go.
Support your local farmers. Although fresh fruits are better than the cheap fruits that been harvested the year prior the local store have.
I am all about supporting Ma and Pa’s local store. I purchased my snowboarding gear from a local store and they were so appreciative that I chose them (more expensive at least by 30%) over a big chain. Unfortunately, a year later they closed down.
If we just spent a little more to keep these vanishing business open we would have more people working. Look at China Towns, USA they are a thriving community.
One of the reasons why I am moving there is the beauty, but there is another reason which I would tell you, but I don’t like to say in public forum.
So, you doubted rural Republicans were receiving state government welfare from urban liberals, and when you did finally learn this old news, you blamed other people. No praise for the wisdom of the free market, no telling the welfare recipients to market products people actually want to buy; it’s all other people’s fault, for not buying products they neither want nor need. (All this after lecturing me how liberals feel envious of, and entitled to, other people’s money!)
So, either we city dwellers buy farm products we don’t need, or the rural Republicans simply deserve to get our tax money in the form of welfare payments? Is that what you believe?
East WA republicans or liberals should not pay what it is called King County self inflicted taxation. The more the government regulates and take cares of your basic needs due to incapability of not doing it on your own. No other counties should pay for your lack of personal responsibility.
i missed you tensor.
…but you still here and read Shift’s propaganda.
Yes tensor, let’s leave Seattle’s foreign policy to Ed Murray. That is quite possibly the stupidest thing that I have ever heard. By your logic could we not improve our trade policy with North Carolina? I haven’t heard Dori Monson’s view on the traffic lights in Seattle. I drive home from work around four o’clock in the morning, it’s just me and delivery trucks, waiting at traffic lights. Not because there is traffic, but because our “green city” can’t afford to put sensors on traffic lights. Sure Ed, I’ll sort out the compost from the recyclables so you and tensor can keep believing that you are both not hypocrites. Keep on believing.
“I haven’t heard Dori Monson’s view on the traffic lights in Seattle.”
Too bad; you’ve missed a true delight:
“It is so confusing,” says Monson. “There are five lights, and you’re supposed to decipher what to do.”
Worse yet, some are *red*, and some are *green*, so how is poor Dori supposed to “decipher” their meanings?
This is the person whom Shift chose as an expert on China policy. Do you need further help in understanding why no one in Seattle takes Shift seriously?
(You see, if you’d just learned about Dori’s brilliance before you commented, you now wouldn’t have to revise your statement to read, “the second stupidest…”)
Oh, I have heard that. I don’t listen every weekday between noon and three on Kiro radio, but I do know the difference between Dori being serious and Dori being silly trying to fill time. He makes it rather obvious. So either you don’t really listen to the show or some shit for brains liberal sent you the sound bite and you bought into it. You remind me of the guy that came into my bar the other day and told me that Bernie Sanders wasn’t going to raise my taxes unless I made over $200,000 a year. Sure. I’m going to steal a line from our Governor and tell you the same thing I told him “we don’t want your stupidity in our city.”
I do like how you immediately pivoted from not knowing of Monson’s statement, to absolute certainty that you know exactly what his statement meant — all without ever having heard it! Your talents are truly impressive.
But, that’s not the only time Dori gave Seattle’s cyclists the benefit of his “humor”:
“If you’re a cyclist, you have to be defensive. If Volpe is as experienced as he makes himself out to be — (sic) unless he was distracted as well — (sic) he shouldn’t have hit that car.”
So, please use your amazing talents to tell us: was Dori making a joke at the expense of a cyclist who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in a bicycle lane, or was Mr. Monson being very serious when he blamed the cyclist for getting hit while having the right of way?
Mr. Monson must be some racist terrorist womanizer, homophobe, and islamophobe bible thumping conservatives.
He’s a big POS!! What the hell is going to China for? Traveling on the people’s money, this is out right bullshit.