re: #50 Khal Wimpo

There’s a growing acknowledgment that the mayors of major U.S. cities are starting to be the strength of the Democratic party. These are people who actually have to Get Shit Done, as opposed to the doctrinaire clowns who only show up every 2 or 6 years, spout a bunch of Randian nonsense, and then retreat behind a wall of negative TV ads back to the cushy K-street paid lobbyist junkets & graft.

Mayors have to make government work or cities implode. That requires an understanding that government is essential - it has things that it has to do.

Anathema to the RWNJs and glibertarians.

I think even more so County Executives, especially like here, where you have a big city and a surrounding county with even more people. You really have to coordinate a lot of different interests.

I remember when Gary Locke was running for Governor after being King County Executive, they pointed out that there were 17 states with fewer people than King County—and 2 with less land area.

I’d like to see Dow Constantine follow the same trajectory, and maybe farther.