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Originally Posted by hevusa
One word. Republicans.
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Not really. Two words actually, Republicans and Democrats.
The so called "liberals" have controlled the City Council in Seattle since at least the mid 1970s. Problem is, they are the ultimate "not in my backyard" back door conservative yuppies when things come down to practice. "Liberal" poster boy and former Democrat mayor Norm Rice penned the infamous "Teen Dance Ordinance" when he was on the City Council in the 1980s that effectively shut down All Ages shows in Seattle for decades. The so called lefties on the City Council also drafted the "No Sitting" on sidewalks ordinance and anti-flyering ordinance both of which the ACLU later helped get thrown out in court.
That same crowd has bantered around "light rail" for so long it's laughable, without ever doing a damn thing to make it happen. When the voters passed a referendum demanding they build a citywide monorail system and approved the taxes to make it happen, they managed to blow all of the money before a single thing was done and basically made the will of the people impossible. Again.
There are so few Republicans, especially with any power, in Seattle that you really can't blame them for anything aside from bad fashion sense. Even in King County (which means factoring in Bellevue and Kirkland and such) as a whole they are a vast minority.