Comments on: King County Conservation Voters Makes No Mayoral Endorsement?!?! http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/10/02/king-county-conservation-voters-makes-no-mayoral-endorsement/ Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff. Wed, 02 May 2012 15:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Patrick Shaw http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/10/02/king-county-conservation-voters-makes-no-mayoral-endorsement/comment-page-1/#comment-394237 Patrick Shaw Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:57:22 +0000 http://jstahl.org/?p=1961#comment-394237 <p>Fair enough then - if they can't hold the torch for McGinn based on his environmental chops - then I do agree - they should go and rethink that decision!</p> Fair enough then – if they can’t hold the torch for McGinn based on his environmental chops – then I do agree – they should go and rethink that decision!

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/10/02/king-county-conservation-voters-makes-no-mayoral-endorsement/comment-page-1/#comment-394236 Jon Stahl Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:22:17 +0000 http://jstahl.org/?p=1961#comment-394236 <p>I'm pretty sure that at least one of them is strong on the environment, since at least one of them has been the Executive Director of a significant city-focused environmental organization. WCV/KCCV is supposed to be evaluating the candidates based on their environmental chops, so to say in effect "we have no opinion here" seems like a dereliction of duty to me.</p> <p>And, full disclosure, I say this as someone who is an enthusiastic McGinn supporter, even though I don't agree with him 100% on every issue, not even on every environmental issue.</p> I’m pretty sure that at least one of them is strong on the environment, since at least one of them has been the Executive Director of a significant city-focused environmental organization. WCV/KCCV is supposed to be evaluating the candidates based on their environmental chops, so to say in effect “we have no opinion here” seems like a dereliction of duty to me.

And, full disclosure, I say this as someone who is an enthusiastic McGinn supporter, even though I don’t agree with him 100% on every issue, not even on every environmental issue.

]]> By: Patrick Shaw http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/10/02/king-county-conservation-voters-makes-no-mayoral-endorsement/comment-page-1/#comment-394234 Patrick Shaw Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:50:52 +0000 http://jstahl.org/?p=1961#comment-394234 <p>Jon,</p> <p>I haven't read much about either candidates yet - but - environmental chops aside - what are the chances that neither of the candidates are good choices?</p> Jon,

I haven’t read much about either candidates yet – but – environmental chops aside – what are the chances that neither of the candidates are good choices?

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