Friends of Seattle is in the news.

Josh Feit, "I Misjudged Him," PubliCola (July 14, 2009)

PubliCola’s own Erica C. Barnett was the obvious winner at last night’s Friends of Seattle Mayoral debate. Density, Metro, the head tax—the lady knows her shit. (It was also pretty dynamite when she shut down the guy in the audience who had a question/wanted to give a speech about Israel. Sorry lefty Seattle, but somebody’s gotta draw the line. Blaming Seattle’s transportation woes and budget crisis on AIPAC is even a little lulu for this town.)

But Erica’s not on the ballot. And she did have the unfair advantage—as moderator—of controlling the microphone in the packed (100 people) back room at Belltown’s Spitfire club.

With Erica disqualified, we have to declare the  person on stage who gave the second best performance of the night the winner: Sierra Club leader Mike McGinn.

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