"Amnesia"

The Mayor & His Comrades Gang Up On Me & the Center

I understated it in yesterday's post, but I was shocked that Mayor Jim Ferrell lambasted me at the Golf Club forum even though I was one of his most strongest supporters until the day before yesterday, and his political aide-de-camp suddenly got amnesia when it came to remembering our phone conversation of December, 2014, when he inferred that I could expect the mayor's support if I got in the Council race.  However, this wasn't a recorded conversation, so of course he wasn't going to refute Ferrell's apparent disinclination to support my campaign a half-a-year later, even if facts got in the way, so that's that, and it's not really that big of a deal, but it does show how quickly a politician can lose favor with the Establishment if you don't go along with the program 100%, like not going along with the vote to establish the 32 million dollar Performing Arts and Conference Center, and another 8 million dollars for Target Store property, because you think it's all too costly for the city and hard-working taxpayers.

So Ferrell is not announcing a choice for Position 1, which after the day before yesterday, pretty much means that either Assefa-Dawson or Murrietta would be just fine with him, and apparently there's not much difference between these 2 Democrats.  So much for going with a more-or-less Independent political insurgent who could have been a linchpin between the mayor and the Council, and Ferrell's more radical, pot-smoking comrades in his new-found Democratic Party family and his old conservative bastion in the Republican Party.  The mayor is apparently going all in with the ultra left-wingers and the union bosses, now that this brand of politics has helped put him in the mayor's office, and if it takes doing a kind of Bill Clintonesque wringing out of an outsider(s), though from the center as opposed to the left, so be it.  Like Clinton, the mayor is probably relishing in making "peripheral" supporters and outsiders into political opponents, but that might turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory, similar to Clinton's tattered legacy.

-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 1 

[Revised on 7/31/15.]