I wonder if Google going to contribute to the mayor, since Comcast is funding his opponent.
Google typically funds all major contenders in big races.
As a corporation, or are you counting their employees?
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google typically funds all major contenders in big races.
As a corporation, or are you counting their employees?
In general, corporations do that more or less to hedge their bets. They want the candidate that they support to win, but if the other candidate wins, they will be able to settle with at least some influence on that other candidate through that funding.
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#13McGinn frustrates me. Issues like this are highly popular and resonate with everyone, but I haven't been a fan of several of his policies. He raised public parking rates to pay for street maintenance upgrades, safety at schools, etc. But, a lot of city streets have yet to be repaired, and safety at our particular local school has slowly been getting worse. He has had to deal with a police force in transition after a…
The city is massively behind on road maintenance due to decades of deferred maintenance. Raising some parking rates doesn't come anywhere near paying for repaving even the worst road segments in the city.
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#15McGinn frustrates me. Issues like this are highly popular and resonate with everyone, but I haven't been a fan of several of his policies. He raised public parking rates to pay for street maintenance upgrades, safety at schools, etc. But, a lot of city streets have yet to be repaired, and safety at our particular local school has slowly been getting worse. He has had to deal with a police force in transition after a…
McGinn isn't a professional politician, which is good because the professional politicians and the "Seattle process" have fucked this city for decades, but it leads to the occasional misstep. The city gigabit fiber initiative was his, though. That and some controversial transportation reforms are parts of his vision that convinced me to vote for him. Too many Seattle politicians are willing to sell themselves out to…
I've only been here since 99, so I don't yet have the full history. On top of that, my track record is poor -- I have yet to vote for the mayoral winner.
But still, while I know he has his initiatives, I couldn't articulate what McGinn believes in. It just isn't clear to me.
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#16Still waiting for Verizon's FiOS and it takes forever. Does Google plan to expand Google Fiber to more cities? Their pricing is simply the best when it comes to $ per bandwidth metirc.
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#17McGinn frustrates me. Issues like this are highly popular and resonate with everyone, but I haven't been a fan of several of his policies. He raised public parking rates to pay for street maintenance upgrades, safety at schools, etc. But, a lot of city streets have yet to be repaired, and safety at our particular local school has slowly been getting worse. He has had to deal with a police force in transition after a…
You can't make a statement like that in a vacuum and when compared to his opponent he's more than forthcoming and opinionated. Murray doesn't have a single issue other than being the guy who will be even more of a friend to big business than McGinn is.
Most people voting for Murray are war on cars mouth breathers who have no idea just how little was spent on bike lanes compared to roads.
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#18I just gave a small donation to his campaign fund. You can donate here: http://mcginnformayor.com . Wish there was a place on the donation to tell them why you're donating. I really hope that more mayors (especially NYC where I live) make this a focus of their campaign. So sick of the cable company monopolies.
Thanks for the link. Yes I really wish that any of the mayoral candidates in Boston (where I live) would make gigabit Internet a priority rather than just being "tough on crime".
While as a Bostonian I would love gigabit, I do think that fighting crime remains a substantial priority in this city. It's not totally backwards, but there's room to improve.
Indeed, I generally think that there are many priorities a mayoral candidate for this city should have, and alas, super-speed internet access is not at the top of that list. Gigabit is a problem ranking far under crime, poverty, and infrastructural issues in Boston.
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#19You can't intelligently discuss cable monopolies without following the money and reading the franchise agreement. As near as Google and I can figure out, you need to read: http://www.seattle.gov/cable/comcast_franchise_06.pdf Is this the most recent revision? Who knows. That would take more effort than I'm willing to expend. First of all the agreement I linked to at seattle.gov claims to be in effect until 2016. So u…
I'm confused, why wouldn't they just tax whatever replaces Comcast? Maybe your argument is that the government has an overall interest in maintaining a monopoly, since monopolies raise prices, and under a fixed tax rate, that means more revenue for government.
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#20You can't intelligently discuss cable monopolies without following the money and reading the franchise agreement. As near as Google and I can figure out, you need to read: http://www.seattle.gov/cable/comcast_franchise_06.pdf Is this the most recent revision? Who knows. That would take more effort than I'm willing to expend. First of all the agreement I linked to at seattle.gov claims to be in effect until 2016. So u…
I'm confused, why wouldn't they just tax whatever replaces Comcast? Maybe your argument is that the government has an overall interest in maintaining a monopoly, since monopolies raise prices, and under a fixed tax rate, that means more revenue for government.
I haven't been following this too closely... but a 5% "sales" tax on a free option is $0.