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Old 12-25-2013, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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Kshama's org, 'Socialist Alternative' aims to capitalize on her recent election to the Seattle city council. They want to see Seattle become a 2 party town. Right now there is essential only one party in Seattle--Democrats.
Socialist politicians dreaming big in Seattle | Local News | The Seattle Times

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The Socialist Alternative party, fresh off a surprise win in November, is setting up an office in Seattle...
Kshama Sawant’s defeat of incumbent Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin “was a watershed moment for the socialist movement across the country,” said Philip Locker, a national organizer for the Socialist Alternative party and the Sawant campaign’s political director....
In political races, Locker said, they run to win and don’t consider themselves fringe candidates.
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Old 12-25-2013, 12:35 PM
 
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I agree with her. Boeing threatened to move the company elsewhere the workers should do whatever they can to make sure they stay there. People before profits!
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Old 12-25-2013, 12:37 PM
 
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Kshama's org, 'Socialist Alternative' aims to capitalize on her recent election to the Seattle city council. They want to see Seattle become a 2 party town. Right now there is essential only one party in Seattle--Democrats.
Socialist politicians dreaming big in Seattle | Local News | The Seattle Times
Wow! Great news! Breaking the 2 party monopoly is great no matter what party does it. This is wonderful!
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Old 12-25-2013, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Wow! Great news! Breaking the 2 party monopoly is great no matter what party does it. This is wonderful!
You would think people who are against the two party system would be happy about this, but apparently they only care about third parties when it is parties they support.
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Old 12-25-2013, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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i hope boeing shuts down the plants in washington state and moves them elsewhere. and what would really be fun is if boeing maintains the plant property and pays the property taxes, and never lets anyone open that property again, until to radicals are gone from government. lets see how washington state would deal with the high unemployment after boeing leaves.
Exactly. They should never have left Wichita.
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Old 12-25-2013, 08:08 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Exactly. They should never have left Wichita.
Wichita? Boeing started in the Puget Sound.
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Old 12-25-2013, 11:51 PM
 
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I agree with her. Boeing threatened to move the company elsewhere the workers should do whatever they can to make sure they stay there. People before profits!
Detroit City! Detroit City!
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Old 12-26-2013, 12:53 AM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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Wow! Great news! Breaking the 2 party monopoly is great no matter what party does it. This is wonderful!
OK, let's bring in Ahmadinejad to start a Sharia Law party and run for US office. After all breaking the monopoly is great no matter what party does it, right? And Mahmoud has some time on his hands now.
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Old 12-26-2013, 01:40 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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You would think people who are against the two party system would be happy about this, but apparently they only care about third parties when it is parties they support.
In Seattle, there are only two parties... Communist, and communist-lite. This change is nothing to get excited about.
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Old 12-26-2013, 08:33 AM
 
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You would think people who are against the two party system would be happy about this, but apparently they only care about third parties when it is parties they support.
Yeah I see that. Sad but oh well. Its the way most of us have been raised and or programmed to be.I consider myself very lucky.
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Detroit City! Detroit City!
That was the Democrat party actually.
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OK, let's bring in Ahmadinejad to start a Sharia Law party and run for US office. After all breaking the monopoly is great no matter what party does it, right? And Mahmoud has some time on his hands now.
OK. See difference is people actually wanted what the Socialist Alternative Party was selling...I doubt many would want what a Sharia Law party would sell.

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In Seattle, there are only two parties... Communist, and communist-lite. This change is nothing to get excited about.
So you must be a republican? In Chicago no less...that's a rarity.
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