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monorail : enough direct democracy?
Posted By josh On August 30, 2005 @ 10:45 am In news | Comments Disabled

Remember the mayor’s ultimatum to the Seattle Monorail Board earlier this month [mb [1]]? The Seattle Times reports that the Board might stand up to Nickels’s demand that they put the whole thing up for another vote this September:
“If we’re not asking for higher taxes and not asking for a shorter line, I don’t believe there’s any reason we should go to a new vote, because we’re doing what people voted for already,” board member Cleve Stockmeyer said. Voters approved a car-tab tax for the monorail in 2002. [seattletimes [2]]
From the looks of things, the issue of revoting (rather than any actual stand on building the monorail) appears to be shaping up to be a campaign issue among the candidates for the city council. I suppose this is the “Seattle Way”.
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[1] mb: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2005/08/monorail_fifth.phtml
[2] seattletimes: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002456614_monorail30m.html?syndication=rss&source=seattletimes.xml&items=93
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