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14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Co-pilot of crashed Co... · 0 replies · +6 points

That's what I was thinking too. Potentially considering the aircraft commander at fault for the incident as well.
Sad all around...Never a good thing when fellow Coasties pass away, and definitely not good when it was due to something completely preventable.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Judge orders release o... · 1 reply · -7 points

Harassment is indeed illegal...But what the legal definition of harassment is and what really IS harassment to an 80 year old grandmother are completely different things... and professional lobbyists KNOW that.

Propoganda mail and door to door folks are annoying to me... but I'm a middle age white guy with former military service and I'm not tiny... I don't get intimidated very easily; however, I know there are a lot of other folks out there that could be intimidated by "legal" tactics.

But as you said, per the letter of the law as it is currently written, I agree, these names must be released. However, I wish the folks fighting it would have petitioned to change the privacy laws on it rather than fight a lawsuit against something that's currently pretty clear.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Judge orders release o... · 0 replies · -2 points

And my own ignorance of the current law that all previous have been public record is on me...I disagree with that for the reasons I stated in my other post.

I think a bipartisan commission should validate names, but no need for public release...voter registration can be culled over on the actual vote.

I'm conservative yet I tend to favor the idea of legalizing MJ and prostitution, then regulate and tax the hell out of it. Most that know me, know my views and I'm ok to stand up for it in public. Not everyone is so outspoken nor confrontational. It's not hard to intimidate a meek person even if they are passionate about an issue. And in those examples, what about the person subject to random urinalysis (such as myself) and their employer saw they signed that measure...conveniently, "random" testing becomes more frequent.... That's fine, I'll pass every time, but it's damn annoying to have to have someone watch you take a leak cause you signed a petition.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Judge orders release o... · 4 replies · 0 points

Correct. There's no problem in seeing that a person is a registered voter. In fact, it's nice to have that cross check that we don't have dead people, felons, etc. voting. However, WHO/WHAT you vote for is and always should be secret to prevent intimidation/meddling.

Now that this precedent is set, any big lobby interest (on either side depending on if it's a "conservative" or "liberal" issue) can go on a propoganda war on folks who sign an initiative. Can you imagine an elderly person wanting the harassment of extra spam mail or even worse, people coming by their door jehovah witness style and trying to change their mind???? WAY too stressful and it WILL affect peoples decisions to even sign a petition for referendum in the first place.

Why do we need to know the names? Worst case, an issue gets on the ballot that maybe didn't have enough signatures.. yes, that costs money, but it's the cost of doing business. If the majority doesn't like the issue, the issue will lose on the ballot.

By releasing the names and the implications of future harassment, it will make it VERY VERY hard for some legitimate issues to make it on the ballot in the first place. :(

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Judge orders release o... · 11 replies · +2 points

Concur.. at the very least signatory folks will likely be getting "information" in the mail....Absolutely no productive reason that the names should be made public on any referendum petition... it's essentially the same as knowing what a person's vote is on an election, and we damn well hopefully are keeping those secret still.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - McGinn: Lower speed li... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just another revenue generator at the end of the day. They can drop the speed limit to 20mph in town all they want to, but the reality is that very few folks would drop down that low (hell I'd have to ride the brakes on my car to keep it at 20... it pretty much goes that fast just off idle.) so the revenue collectors, err, I mean police would just sit back and write tickets all day long.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Teen driver fined $42 ... · 0 replies · +3 points

That's where the lawyers come in... prove that he had "disregard for safety". The article indicates that he had difficulty negotiating a turn and lost control and hit the bicyclist. Without knowing further details as to his speed, weather and road conditions, etc. you and I can't really determine what RCW is applicable or not. And assuming that he wasn't speeding recklessly in a wet night time environment, it appears that the officer/prosecuter didn't feel there was a strong enough amount of evidence to back a more severe charge of reckless driving, let alone vehicular homicide.

The article also indicates that the LAWYER says the police didn't check cell records...who knows.. I'm sure he's reviewed the official police report, maybe not.. I sure haven't so I can't say for sure that they didn't rule out that issue.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Teen driver fined $42 ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Good luck if he uses Sprint... they only maintain 12 day records for texts (calls would still be logged). Prosecutors working on a case my wife and I were witnesses for ran into that issue with sprint.

Hope the family can come to some peace and resolution rather than just make an ambulance chaser a bit richer. :(

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Charge: Softball coach... · 0 replies · +11 points

Our family has been around various summer and select teams and not one single team we were involved in was a non family member of the opposite sex allowed to spend time in a hotel room alone with an athlete. Hell, as posted below, alone time with any athlete, regardless of sex, just does not happen in a reputable program.

Yes, select teams to become close like a family; however, even then, there are lines that they do not cross in order to remain a reputable, ethical team.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Charge: Softball coach... · 1 reply · +15 points

So what.. he's a father figure... *I* am a father figure for my stepdaughter and other children and I sure as hell do not hang out naked around any of them, nor touch them.

Father figure/role models are VERY good for our children. They help them develop and mature into good upstanding citizens. What it's reported that this guy has done is just pure scumbag pedophile that lured vulnerable children into a bad situation.

I can't believe any program would allow a male adult to share a hotel room with a female athlete. All the programs/select teams our daughter played on always had female chaperones for everything. It should have set off HUGE red flags to these girls parents or even other parents on the team. I know it would have for us!

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