{"id":87397,"date":"2009-12-17T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010535679_biddingadieutomayornickels.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-17T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:19:44","slug":"bidding-adieu-to-mayor-nickels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87397","title":{"rendered":"Bidding adieu to Mayor Nickels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madison Valley flooding and a lame-duck mayor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What strange coincidental fate that Nicole Brodeur\u2019s column \u201cMayor takes a few last questions\u201d [NWTuesday, Dec. 15] on the exit of Mayor Greg Nickels was next to the story on the Madison Valley flooding lawsuit [\u201cSuit: City allowed flooding,\u201d NWTuesday, Dec. 15].<\/p>\n<p>In the flooding story, one can find all the rotten underbelly of incompetence, waste and political management found throughout Seattle because, in my opinion, Mayor Nickels was far more interested in his personal federal and national audience, than he was in the efficient operation of Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s response to the flooding in Madison Valley was to remove the most vulnerable homes, dig a big expensive hole where those homes once stood, and next year waste taxpayer money installing a large drainage pipeline that will not be able to alleviate flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Was this solution engineered or politically engineered by spin and legal wrangling over the drowning of a Madison Valley resident in her basement due to flooding?<\/p>\n<p>The present city attorney was also thankfully replaced by voters, so Mike McGinn, here is your first opportunity to save all the city residents and taxpayers substantial amounts of money, prevent significant and needless project disruption and solve several other legal problems at the same time, all while demonstrating you are true to your election campaign statements and promises.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Geoffrey K. Willson, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nickels\u2019 lasting gun ban<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a fine thing to have a watchdog monitoring our constitutional rights. Bob Warden is to be commended for ensuring that our right to carry our concealed weapons everywhere is protected [\u201cPistol-packing attorney files challenge to Nickels\u2019 gun ban,\u201d NWSaturday, Nov. 28].<\/p>\n<p>The audacity of Mayor Greg Nickels in trying to keep guns out of city parks and recreational areas has to be condemned and overturned. How can our children and grandchildren\u2019s safety be guaranteed on the playfields and in the swimming areas in the city unless anyone who chooses to carry a gun there has that right?<\/p>\n<p>No one should have their Second Amendment rights infringed at any time. It would be like limiting someone\u2019s freedom of speech to yell \u201cfire\u201d in a crowded theater as a joke \u2014 Oh, right. You can limit the right of free speech in cases like that.<\/p>\n<p>Well, thank goodness the state doesn\u2019t allow such limitations on guns. Way to go Bob.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Bruce Colwell, Burien<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Valley flooding and a lame-duck mayor What strange coincidental fate that Nicole Brodeur\u2019s column \u201cMayor takes a few last questions\u201d [NWTuesday, Dec. 15] on the exit of Mayor Greg Nickels was next to the story on the Madison Valley flooding lawsuit [\u201cSuit: City allowed flooding,\u201d NWTuesday, Dec. 15]. In the flooding story, one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87397","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}