{"id":510011,"date":"2010-04-02T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011510247_segalefamilystukwilasouth.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:03:16","slug":"segale-familys-tukwila-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/510011","title":{"rendered":"Segale family&#8217;s Tukwila South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stop playing political games, Super Mario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am happy that Mario Segale made it from rags to riches. This is the beauty of America, the opportunity it gives to everyone. [\u201cSecretive developer has a massive plan,\u201d page one, March 28.]<\/p>\n<p>The part of the story I do not like is that his efforts with the Democratic Party \u2014Gov. Chris Gregoire and Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, in particular \u2014show how easily politicians can be bought.<\/p>\n<p>Segale gave the Democratic Party more than $350,000 since 2008 and now he gets permits galore. A grant from the federal government will be used to build a four-lane road to Segale\u2019s Tukwila South project.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that Segale is doing so well \u2014it truly is. But I resent that he continues to \u201cbuy\u201d Democrats and works to keep them in power in this state. The rest of us just get taxed to death and beyond by the lack of fiscal responsibility that the Democrats in the state and the ones we send to Washington, D.C., demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the difference between Republicans and Democrats is simpler than I thought. Republicans are for businesses \u2014all businesses; Democrats are only for businesses that make large donations to their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Pauline Cornelius, Olalla<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop playing political games, Super Mario I am happy that Mario Segale made it from rags to riches. This is the beauty of America, the opportunity it gives to everyone. [\u201cSecretive developer has a massive plan,\u201d page one, March 28.] The part of the story I do not like is that his efforts with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}