It’s a bad line for sure. I watched and read through the follow-up quotes and I think this bit is important to read along with it:
“The mayor was not praising them, he was referencing they have an objective reputation as leaders in technology and innovation, and that it is a danger they are in the president’s orbit,” Housen said. “He certainly doesn’t agree with their politics, which is why he highlighted this through concerns around the actions coming out of DC like significant staffing cuts impacting cybersecurity and the degradation of protections and questions over access to personal data.”
Could’ve been foot-in-mouth syndrome, and I think the concerns he shared about federal layoffs support his real intent. I know it’s easy to see red right now, and that’s why it’s important to distinguish the real problems.
Agree on foot-in-mouth after watching the video. He stumbles immediately following this sentence having lost his argument. Not sure of Mayor Harrell’s politics since I don’t live in Seattle right now (just an admirer) but headlines like these do make the experience of reading the news so difficult. No one should be calling those grifters innovators though… he needs to remove that lexicon from his mouth.
among the world’s foremost generators of waste, fraud & abuse!
wonder how those boots taste
couldn’t of said it better myself. i’m so sick of this guy.
I realize I have gotten more liberal over the years but gawd damn center left can you stop dropping to your knees in worship every chance you get around these tech losers?
Is Harrell center-left? I think of him as center-center, middle of the road with the double yellow line running right up his rectum. Maybe my perspective is skewed, though, from living in several bright blue places…
I’m from the south. He would be center left there. You’re totally right.
