For about two weeks....I've been watching this odd mass shooting episode at the Bite of Seattle food festival (the 26th of July).
The basic story? Somewhere around 6 PM....gunfire broke out at Seattle Center (near the Space Needle) during the final day of the local 'free' (to enter) food festival. Some gang-BS started up....shooting....with apparently three folks shooting.
Three folks dead....two were just guys hanging out....one was apparently one of the shooters.
Four folks wounded.
If you go by the textbook....cops did everything possible to halt the mess....I'd give them credit.
So....two issues pop up.
First....one shooter got away, and the cops simply didn't want to advertise his appearance.
Second, while the got-away guy stuff was going on.....city leadership didn't want to talk about it. You get the impression.....no one knew much of anything, and they didn't want to share that lack of knowledge with the news people.
Five hours pass. There's a conference scheduled....but they seem to be waiting on the arrival of the Governor.
The mayor? Well....this is the gal who is fully unqualified for the job.
Somewhere in the middle of things....it's apparent that the chief of police doesn't really LIVE in Seattle. The guy was hired out of Chicago....keeping the family/residence there, and simply renting an apartment in Seattle. You get the impression he was a temp-guy....waiting for a chance to return to Chicago, and be chief of police there.
The mayor gets the ideal....because the police chief is gone so much....out of the city....she needs to blame someone, and he's the 'one'. So in the past couple of day.....she fires him. Oddly, the city has to pay him off....at least $600,000 from the details I can figure.
The replacement guy? Well....he's a temp-filler.....keeping a apartment in Seattle, while living elsewhere....as well.
Journalists? Well...you get the impression that for 20 years....they've been hibernating, and just woke up...asking weird blunt and direct questions....which the mayor can't answer.
I paused here....wondering....well....does Seattle just not have mass shootings, and this was a one-of-a-kind? NO....statistics show 3 to 7 mass shootings a year. So it's not rare.
Finally, I come to this odd part of the story. There is still apparently one shooter from this event....still on the run.
My take? The mayor probably has about six months of time left...before the pressure gets to a 'joke' level.
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The WorldWideWeb tells me:
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.. DIE-hire Seattle girl-mayor salary : $230,000 plus vehicle plus wardrobe allowance, plus DIE-points among the activist and community organizer mob.
Girl-mayor sole motivation for the bureaucrat gig was enough money so she afford to live in Seattle.
A lofty goal for anybody, that's for sure.
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.. DIE-hire Seattle phone-in police force bald-and-imposing chief salary : $370,000 plus vehicle plus wardrobe allowance, plus DIE-points among the activist and community organizer mob.
That would be in addition to his $700,000 for managing to get fired for that whole 'nonchalantly phoning-it-in from Chicago' managing the force.
"Because that's the way we do it in Chicago, renowned as the home of Barky Hussein O'Bama!"
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Bald-and-imposing chief motivation for taking the gig is not listed among his paltry inventory of hopes and dreams.
Seattle is less renowned for ribs and watermelon than, say, Tacoma.
Or Boise.
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Occasionally, not often but every once in a while, I wonder if anybody is in-charge.
Is the entire First World on auto-pilot, nobody at the steering-wheel, no navigator charting maps, the coal-stokers down in engineering enthusiastically following their last set of orders.
"We need more power, keep those fires hot!"
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And then, I come to my senses and realize nobody is sharing the big picture with me because it is all too complicated for my simple brains to comprehend.
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