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It got thoroughly upstaged by the other goings-on at Seattle City Council today, but this happened: I’ve talked to the City Council several times before about how I’d been using public disclosure requests to get information from the City Attorney’s office, and how I ended up filing a bar complaint based on false statements the City Attorney made about a judge, and was planning today to give them some snarking about the fact that even after all my previous presentations to them, 6 out of 9 councilmembers endorsed Ann Davison for re-election. Then I noticed Dan Strauss was no longer listed as an endorser on Ann Davison’s campaign website. I caught Strauss on his way in and asked him if he still endorsed Davison and he said he never endorsed her and didn’t know what I was talking about. About 30 minutes later, during public comment, I showed him the screen shot of his face on Ann Davison’s campaign website, under “endorsements”. Later after the City Council meeting was over, I asked him on the record for confirmation, and he said he never endorsed her (not even in the 2021 election either) and he had no idea how his face ended up on that site. He asked where to get the screen shot and I said I got it from Hannah Krieg’s X account where she posted it on May 9th. I emailed the Ann Davison campaign right before the City Council meeting to ask how that happened but I haven’t heard back. (The attached video glitches at 0:24; that glitch is in the original playback from the Seattle Channel website, I’m saying “But, the other day I woke up to the news that 6 out of 9 City Council members had apparently endorsed Ann Davison.”) I looked up the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission’s Election Code Rules. They have rules about getting and publicizing endorsements; I couldn’t find anything that said you can’t make up an endorsement out of thin air but maybe they considered that too obvious to list. submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
