From Stark
BELLINGHAM—Kelli Linville’s lead over Mayor Dan Pike stood at 406 votes after the Thursday, Nov. 10 tally out of 19,332 cast, and both candidates are still sweating out upcoming vote counts.
“Two years in a row,” an exasperated Linville said. “This is hard.”
How hard will it be for Pike to close that gap? It depends on how many city ballots remain to be counted. Pike said he thinks there will be 7,000 to 9,000 more, and that the later ballots will tend to be more favorable to him than the early ones.
Next count won’t come until Saturday. Honor our veterans tomorrow. (and other days too of course.)
John,
Life is short. Is there time in a newspaper for stuff like these two troll letters above? If letters were signed by real people, the letters would be more civil. The Herald does itself no credit by promulgating this kind of vulgar, anonymous attack screed. This masked incivility is a really unpleasant, and completely unneeded, aspect of the Herald. You don’t need to provide a venue for hatred.
Abe Jacobson
Bellingham
Abe is absolutely right. I get the aggressively negative comments when there is still the slim possibility of persuading some poor undecided voter that stumbles on to this blog, but after the election? Time to give it a rest.
Well put Abe and Riley,
Julie it is LONG PAST TIME TO END THIS ANONYMOUS COMMENTING! The level of vicious commenting is out of control.
STOP IT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus
Or simply mushroom or fungus. Oft referred to as “keep me in the dark and feed me Bull Sh*t.
Come into the light and show yourself. Really it will be easier, you will say a lot less! I look forward to examining your record of public service! Although you do read a little like AW.
Lifelong, thanks for the support but, no reason to expect any shenanigans, Kelli will win fair and square.
Doug Starcher
I agree with Mr. Jacobson, who’s always sage about this sort of thing, Mr. Sweeney, and Mr. Starcher. The campaign is over. Give it up. Enough. Life is too short and precious to waste on hateful blog comments.
@abe: Who could disagree?
There aren’t any threads about the initiatives, so this thread is as good as any.
We know that the SEIU day care worker organizing in WA was modeled after the Michigan SEIU, but was the care giver initiative modeled after Michigan, also?
Read this about the Michigan SEIU Care Givers:
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/seiu-siphons-dues-mich-medicaid-payments
It’ll be a nice change of pace to have a mayor who’s not afraid to stand up for our city and won’t hide behind a “neutral stance” when some corporation tries to sue our city. If you’re the mayor, you don’t get the luxury of being neutral when someone’s attacking your city. Spineless Dan has to be the most cowardly politician I’ve ever seen in local politics. Thank God the people of Bellingham had the brains and dignity to throw him out.
Couple of observations:
Anonymous political commentary has been around longer than the United States has been around. And I hardly believe my initial point crossed the line. I merely pointed out that Kelli Linville is a quintessential neo-liberal, without any sort of ideological grounding and overly quick to submit to moneyed interests. Much like our Congressman Larsen and, disappointingly, our president. She is decidedly not a progressive, which should be abundantly clear by now.
And for this mild critique of Linville, my post was deleted by Paben/Stark? Yet an irrelevant post by “John Galt” remains, as does Eric Richardson’s in which he refers to the mayor as “Spineless Dan.” Doug Starcher even uses an expletive, yet his post is also still up. May I then infer that the Herald, or at least Paben/Stark, are somewhat less than impartial in their reporting on the mayor’s race? Moreover, may I infer that a Mayor Linville would surround herself with aggressive henchmen who would have zero tolerance for criticism and do their best to stamp it out wherever it might occur? You surely don’t believe we’ll all suddenly begin to get along when the vote count is over, do you?
I’ll continue to keep my toes crossed and hope Pike pulls it out. And if he does, I shall pour myself a little drink and chuckle that uber-centrist Linville has now registered two consecutive losses to guys with bad haircuts.
Down to 299 votes separating Linville and Pike now! The slacker prog vote keeps dripping in. Good.
Even better, Maginnis takes the lead over Crawford. Sweet!
Cantharellus – If it were not for the red light camera issue, Pike would have won in a landslide.
I am sorry to hear that you think that the comment regarding the SEIU caregiver initiative is so irrelevant but there was nowhere else to post it and no one to provide an answer. I’m still waiting for someone to reply.
I doorbelled all of 224, some of 225, and almost all of 229 for Pike in 2007. I stayed home in 2011. It’s all my fault, or, turned around, I take credit.
There is more than the margin in those precincts.
Win or lose, Dave, all Pike supporters will be reassured in knowing you supported his opponent.
Pretty consistent with Linville’s base of support: the self interested and the simply confused.
Guess that makes me confused, too, Mr. Kirsch.
I disagree with Mr. Kirsch’s depiction of Linville supporters. I believe it’s more a matter of picking one’s poison.
As the saying goes, YOU, yourself, are the only perfect candidate. Unless you choose to run, you must pick between the lesser of two evils.
Personally, I like Kelli more than I like Pike. Am I self-interested? Sure. Am I simply confused? Not so much. To me, Dan’s negatives are more negative than Kelli’s.
“Personally, I like Kelli more than I like Pike.”
Frankly, that’s what was the matter with this election: not enough attention to the records and the issues, and too much ego and personalities.
If Pike hadn’t squandered his office in an attempt to please the police with new revenue, we’d still have a firewall against the developers and the Kremen/Crawford camp out to please them; and of course, your idea of a mayor.