The slimy attack on Mike O'Brien
Mike O'Brien's opponent, Robert Rosencrantz, sent an attack mailer to 100,000 voters making the breathless claim that Mike supports "tolling everywhere," and he cites Mike's endorsement interview video with Friends of Seattle to support his claim. See the mailer here
But at the same time that Robert Rosencrantz distorted Mike's statements about tolling of highways and city streets, Mr. Rosencrantz hid from voters that he himself has . . . yes, EXACTLY the same position on tolling.
When we interviewed Mr. Rosencrantz, his short answer on tolling:
"Tolls - great. Systemwide - yes."
In other words, Mr. Rosencrant is dishonest, and he's fighting dirty.
See Mr. Rosencrantz's entire toll-happy video statement to us at this link
Now Mr. Rosencrantz has friends. We learned today that a big-business political action committee spent $50,000 on a mailer lobbing another attack on Mike O'Brien.
You know as we do that Mike is exactly the kind of courageous, visionary leader we need on the Seattle City Council. And it doesn't hurt that he has the financial expertise -- an MBA and an economics degree -- to help the city through its budget crisis.
Mike will get elected if you help him.
If enough of us contribute $5, $20, $50, $100, $500, we can help Mike fight back.