Reply #11: No, Republicans are corrupt, too. [View All]

[JailBush]

I'll put my findings online as soon as I finish revising my websites. You can start by looking at Seattle Greens' issues and track records; there's virtually nothing to look at.

They're shenanigans are especially obvious in the field of public education - or maybe it's just that that's the issue I'm most familar with. Brita Butler-Wall recently got elected to the Seattle School Board after waging a "fiscal accountability" campaign.

What a crock! I tried to convince her to help campaign for an INDEPENDENT AUDIT years ago, but she just gave me the cold shoulder. Even now, she hasn't said a word about the recent Seattle Schools "audit," which was obviously phony.

Sally Soriano is another green who just got elected. She claims she's been an education advocate for 25 years. So why didn't I hear of her until just a few years ago? I've been extremely active in education activism for more than five years and ran for office THREE TIMES. Sally never contacted me. I supported an Asian American teacher who filed an extraordinary lawsuit against the Seattle School District; we never saw Sally Soriano's face in the courtroom. But I recently saw a photo of Sally protesting in defense of another Asian American school employee - one of the district's most corrupt administrators. What gives?

Four years ago, the Greens backed another spineless one-issue candidate, Dwight Van Winkle.

Then there's Joe Swajza (spelling?). He's a Seattle Schools teacher who ran for Congress. With all his publicity and political involvement, you'd think he'd be speaking out against the corruption in the Seattle School District. If you can find anything on the Internet, please let me know.

Brita Butler-Wall and Sally Soriano were lavishly praised by left-wing media whore Geov Parrish. I believe one or both were endorsed by the corrupt Seattle Weekly.

Parrish named FOUR school board challengers who he labeled outsiders - including one that's a member of Greg Nickels' administration!

And if these individuals were REALLY outsiders, why didn't the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Seattle media put up a fight? They declared World War III against Charlie Chong, perhaps Seattle's best known outsider "activist."

Check out the Green Party of Seattle's website and the website of the Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools (CCCS), which is practically a Green Party affiliate. Collectively, they boast hundreds of members, yet they apparently can't organize two or three of them to make decent websites or put any information online.

CCCS' number one issue is fighting commercialism in schools. That's a good issue, but it's also just the tip of the corporate iceberg. As a matter of fact, their incessant one-issue campaign is a great diversion from bigger issues.

I was shocked when another anti-commercialism group based in Portland, Oregon, presented an award - to the corrupt Seattle School Board! Even more surprising, this group is headed by Ralph Nader!!!

What the Hell's going on here? Are all these hundreds of Greens and activists unbelievably ignorant, stupid or corrupt? I've contacted them many times and told them what the score is, all to no avail. The verdict's simple: They're corrupt.