Seattle passes campaign finance initiative

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• section8 Member Posts: 1,581

  November 2015

  Great, jack up my taxes so I can pay for some dipshits yard signs.

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• PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,084

  November 2015

  Shit city. Shit initiative. Glad I only had to live there for 4 years.

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• topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,838

  November 2015

  The government is here to help!

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• RaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 104,924

  November 2015

  Shirley this will stop politicians from whoring themselves out to the highest bidder

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• sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208

  November 2015

  Does everybody who runs get taxpayer money?... or... just the Good candidates?
  
  if everybody gets money... is it allocated evenly?... or... do the best candidates get the most?

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• section8 Member Posts: 1,581

  November 2015

  Each voter gets $100 worth of coupons to hand out to candidates as they see fit. Mine are for sale to the highest bidder.

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• dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326

  November 2015

  Yep ^
  All this will do is help activist candidates. Sawant (how on earth she got re-elected I have no idea) is gonna have friends soon

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• PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 43,744

  November 2015

  How many vouchers do dead King County/Seattle voters get?
  
  Fuck Chris Gregoire.
  
  

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• Fire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,623

  November 2015

  So it does nothing to stop or limit PACs, which are the major problem.
  
  FS

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• sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208

  November 2015

  b.b.b.b.but somebody has to do SOMETHING!

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• RaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 104,924

  November 2015

  sarktastic said:

  b.b.b.b.but somebody has to do SOMETHING!

  The government should just pick the winner

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• Blackie Member Posts: 499

  November 2015

  Another #WhyILeft validation.

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• Tequilla Member Posts: 19,825

  November 2015

  dhdawg said:

  Yep ^
  All this will do is help activist candidates. Sawant (how on earth she got re-elected I have no idea) is gonna have friends soon

  She gets re-elected because she represents a bunch of people that feel that everything should be given to them ... it's not really that hard to see.
  
  I could offer up a massive TL, DR rant on the election results last night.

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• sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208

  November 2015

  Sewerant is a leading lieutenant of the growing Free Shit Army. She will grow in popularity as long as others have shit she convinces her followers they deserve to have instead, for free.

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• dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  If people agree with marxism fine. I don't but whatever. She's a complete asshole. Haven't listened to a word she said since she called capitalists criminals at some rally

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• Tequilla Member Posts: 19,825

  November 2015

  dhdawg said:

  If people agree with marxism fine. I don't but whatever. She's a complete asshole. Haven't listened to a word she said since she called capitalists criminals at some rally

  When I see people with openly blind hate like that as a politician, they should immediately be handed a gas can, match, and escorted to the Aurora Bridge.

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• 2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

  November 2015

  Tequilla said:

  dhdawg said:

  If people agree with marxism fine. I don't but whatever. She's a complete asshole. Haven't listened to a word she said since she called capitalists criminals at some rally

  When I see people with openly blind hate like that as a politician, they should immediately be handed a gas can, match, and escorted to the Aurora Bridge.

  *except for your politician.

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• sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208

  November 2015

  Tequilla said:

  dhdawg said:

  If people agree with marxism fine. I don't but whatever. She's a complete asshole. Haven't listened to a word she said since she called capitalists criminals at some rally

  When I see people with openly blind hate like that as a politician, they should immediately be handed a gas can, match, and escorted to the Aurora Bridge.

  Or deported back to their homeland

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• Fire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,623

  November 2015

  I have a little bit of experience in this field but mostly it's a self-proclaimed expert behind a keyboard thing.
  
  The people who draft these initiatives are purposefully making it as confusing and opaque as possible. What might sound good on the surface or at first glance is the exact opposite often times. Even if you trace the money to the source (which about 1 in 100 people would actually do), it might be dark money or at best it's some think tank cloaked behind a folksy sounding name.

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