Seattle City Council

Guy, you reported this story out, but I'll give folks a brief little intro.

Last week, the Seattle City Council passed six pieces of legislation called VRAP, or Vehicle Residence Assistance Program.

It was sponsored by council member Dan Strauss.

It includes $5 million in funding for shelter and more assistance to RV residents, but it would also create a permit program that people with RVs would be required to join.

Well, now the director of public safety in the mayor's office has been caught red In a very clear lie.

So Allison Holcomb was asked by the Seattle City Council under questioning if anyone asked from the mayor's office for a delay in the police department's press briefing.

Here's what she said at the time.

Did the mayor's office or designee of the mayor ask to pause, delay, not hold a press conference at all at any time that evening?

So if you could please hold on the 945 availability until the Mayor is able to join you, that would be great.

Weird.

Can we go back to the Seattle City Council question one more time?

Did the mayor's office or designee of the mayor ask to pause, delay, not hold a press conference at all at any time that evening?

i'd personally gotten one fifth of the margin if just a handful of the volunteers on my side had stayed home or there had been a few more on the other side washington state would have had a different governor another time in a u.s senate race i walked election day precincts until my feet hurt and then continued until the polls closed The margin this time was 2,229 votes, and I had no idea it would be that close.

I also once invited my neighbors to a house party for my friend Lisa, who was running for Seattle City Council.

15 people RSVP'd, but only 5 showed, plus Lisa and her campaign manager.

I apologize for wasting the campaign's time, but my friendship... who had just retired, was one of the five.

What's the buzz about Mayor Katie Wilson's new homelessness proposal? New RV legislation just passed the council.

But first, we're going to start with Seattle City Council race for District 5 between Nilou Jenks and Julie Kang.

Unfortunately, Nilou got a bad cold that turned out to be COVID.

And in fact, I think Erica...

And so they actually are going to slow down hiring as part of this budget.

So it is a live budget issue.

And so the question is, if the Seattle City Council decides that they want more cops, if Julie Kang gets elected and decides she wants more cops, she's going to have to figure out how are we going to pay for them? Because they are very expensive.

No, yes.