While the King County Executive candidates ... well, at least those selected by the corporate intelligentsia ... are being invited to all kinds of candidate forums by the corporate establishment in King County, virtually no one is inviting Mark Greene to any forums at all. The corporate establishment in King County has decided that no one should have the temerity to challenge a Republican "prince" or the council rung, as opposed to the executive rung, of the Hutchison-Dunn slate. So the community organizations that are portraying themselves as bastions of democracy are, in actuality, running nothing but an authoritarian-style election, where some candidates are considered persona non grata and incumbents ordained as "princes" are sheltered from interviews, questions and debates. The little Seattle area bloggers that cover politics, by and large, and who like to portray themselves as some sort of a triumphal alternative to mainstream news, are no better than their wealthier and more established counterparts.
[First posted on "Commoner" on 7/20/09; revised same day.]
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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