Endorsement for Seattle City Attorney - Pete Holmes
Vote for Pete Holmes, because Tom Carr is a crazy man with an agenda.
Tom Carr has repeatedly used his power as City Attorney to bully small bars and businesses. With Mayor Nickels by his side, they enacted Operation Sobering Thought: a completely unsuccessful sting leading to 20 bar employees being arrested, none of them charged with a single crime.
As City Attorney, Carr has continued to prosecute people arrested for marijuana infractions, despite Seattle voters approving a measure that would make them the “lowest possible law-enforcement priority”.
Currently he’s working to close down the Columbia City bar Angie’s, one of the last hold-outs to gentrification in the area. While Angie’s has had its share of abuses, closing down the bar is only going to make race relations uglier in the south end.
He’s also admitted to having a personal vendetta against alcohol after his father died of an alcohol-related accident at the age of 14. While my condolences go out to the adolescent Carr, the adult City Attorney has been using his power to go after everyone who drinks, responsibly or not.
And as one more nail in Carr’s coffin, police started aggressive audits of Gay bars in an attempt to shut them down for erotic or pornographic imagery on their walls. Gay bars have long used porn as a way to non-violently deter bigots from entering their establishments, keeping them safe.
Throw him out, and vote for Pete Holmes, a reasonable man who wants to defend the people of the city (those who elected him).
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/remain-silent/Content?oid=2525841
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