Please name them, James.
I was a King County employee for 23 years, and yes, Ron Sims is a “big picture’ guy,at the expense of paying attention to important, immediate details.
He also did a lot of bad, or at least incompetent things, from the not well thought out Growth management Act to the ill conceived trade of Boeing Field for railroad right of way to the dismantling of the Waterfront Streetcar….nobody was minding the store. But he speaks well, especially for an insincere, smarmy blowhard.
But don’t get me wrong, I really like the guy.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESS_STIMULUS?SITE=TNKNN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

grrrrr. Hopefully the news report left out some type of equity share or something like HOPE did.

This is the equivalent of buying a luxury box…you can claim ‘networking’, but we all know its just an employee perk.

No more worries about that pesky county budget,
or anything else KC related, for that matter.

When it starts getting really mushy here,
he will be on firm ground with America’s
‘Full Faith and Credit’ under his feet.

This is just a waste, and a direct mail campaign would probably yield better results for far less cost.

One caveat, if they had sunk most of the cost prior to the bailout, then perhaps it was cheaper to go through with it even though it was a waste.

If people cannot borrow money from lenders, howcome they regret not buying..

Because Ron is going to turn the mortgage interest tax deduction into a mortgage interest tax credit!

The other part of me knows better.

And if this is the ‘quality’ of person Obama is appointing to Federal positions, "golly" I’d rather have Sims screwing up KC rather than doing his best to screw up as much of the country as he can.

Better yet, let’s let failed banks fail, fire management, wipe out equity holders, wipe out unsecured debt holders, manage the bad assets in RTC fashion and sell the “good bank” back to the private sector.

Maybe we can find some buyers that actually know how to run a bank and manage risk.

If they also paid a few hundred grand to put the incompetent execs into a luxury box at the game that would be despicable, and I don’t doubt that they did.

You said it for me.

Good take from you too, Joel. To add to your dry humor, if you’ve read my recession blogs, you know I support domestic American workers first during layoffs. Well the banks got their bailouts and guess what, they want 20,000 foreign middle managers [these aren't tech H-1Bs gang, they have business degrees] brought in to replace laid off Americans; paid for with the bailout money…lol

A friend told me he heard on the news as the recession/depression worsens, corruption in government will go off the scale…..they’re right.

I was in Ron Sims’ office once. This may shock you, but it was gigantic, probably the square footage of a small house, and filled with ridiculously posh, over-the-top safari decor, the kind of thing that when democracy is working really should be brought to taxpayers’ attention.

Un-informed America needs to let professionals do what they’re trained to do, run a business into the ground.

Fixed that for ya.

Bailed Out Bank of America Sponsors Super Bowl Fun Fest
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Despite a near collapse that required $45 billion in federal taxpayer bailout funds, Bank of America sponsored a five day carnival-like affair just outside the Super Bowl stadium this past week as President Obama decried wasteful spending on Wall St.
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The event – known as the NFL Experience – was 850,000 square feet of sports games and interactive entertainment attractions for football fans and was blanketed in Bank of America logos and marketing calls to sign up for football-themed banking products.
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The bank staunchly defended its sponsorship, saying it was a “business proposition” and part of its “growth strategy.”
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Critics blasted the spending as a serious abuse of taxpayer money.
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