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Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat imagines this scenario:
GOP Chair Reince Priebus accidentally tells the truth:
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For years you heard the word Seattle and the first thing you thought was: pot smokers and gays, he said. Well, the jokes on us, because it turns out all those pot smokers and gays have jobs.
A new jobs report showed Seattle businesses are on a hiring spree that has driven the citys unemployment rate well below the rest of the state, to one of the lowest for big cities in the U.S.
The realization that neither the citys high taxes nor its endless bureaucratic red tape seem to have dampened this explosion of capitalism at all has already begun to shake up the local political scene.
Sen. Rodney Tom, leader of a mostly GOP coalition in the state Senate, said he was mulling switching parties. Again.
The whole point of joining with Republicans was to fight Seattle and its values, Tom said at a press availability. But while Im fighting Seattle, businesses are moving there. It doesnt make any sense.
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Correcting for those who don't read full article.
Blue Owl
(50,420 posts)right on
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Huh..When I hear Seattle,I think about coffee and the Space Needle.And,yes,I've been there.
Like any other rethuglicon,any truth spoken by Reince Priebus,is almost by definition,accidental and usually inconvenient,for them,as well.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)And the other disciples of Joe McCarthy - Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, Scott Walker, Jim Senselessbrenner, Tom Petrie, et al.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Not really. I think the last two paragraphs are important...
Thats true. Inconvenient to the politics of the day. But true.
blm
(113,065 posts)thx
Sometimes I forget that not everyone clicks on the link and reads all the way through.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)kisses, babies, gentleness, sweetness, those are the things that draw people together, make strangers into friends, even lovers and couples, and the Republican economic viewpoint fosters not a one of those experiences.
Seattle's and Portland's crazy lifestyles do. No wonder those cities are doing pretty well as things go.
Been to both cities. This seems obvious to me.
Besides, if you want THE BEST SALMON IN THE WORLD, move to Seattle. I don't think it could possibly be beat.