He was tried and sentenced by the feds for EPA violations. That's the second sentence in the article.

>>I have no interest in "meddling" in Seattle politics

You do realize that McKenna is running for Governer of the entire state, not just Seattle, right?

Exactly! Pot, meet Kettle.

Whether the weapon was legally owned or not is irrelevant to the charge. The negligence in leaving the weapon unsecured where children can access it, leading to fatal results, is the same.

Wow, that's a heck of a lot of assumptions.
High on drugs? The report referenced here doesn't specify an amount, and marijuana lasts in the bloodstream for a month.
Blindsided? Blindsided the guy who left his vehicle, against specific police instructions, to confront him? The odds he "blindsided" him are pretty slim.
Bash his head against the pavement? Maybe. But if you instigate a fight (which Zimmerman likely dead), you don't get to pull a gun when you start to get your butt whipped.

No kidding!
The article said it happened over several months. I would have assumed that heavy gauge copper wire like that would serve an important enough function that when they first started taking it, something should have stopped working and the theft discovered before it got this far.

OK, if you are so concerned about with terminology, I think the better solution would be for Christians (and not all Christians, just those with a problem with homosexual unions) come up with their own "special" term for whatever sort of ceremonial couple binding they want to do.
Marriage is too ubiquitous and found amongst a wide range of cultures and religions, and not just the "Judeo/Christian" ones. Besides, Marriage is the term that is written into the various laws, making it a legal, and therefore secular term.
Again, if you want to have a "special" term for it, you need to come up with it for yourself.

For someone that doesn't like homosexuals, he sure made a lot of them

"cops are trained to maim or wound not kill"

That's not even remotely true. Standard law enforcement training is to shoot to the center of mass ie. the heart.
This is not to maim, but to have the most likelihood of putting the suspect down, with a combination of an effective, usually lethal shot, and a shot that they are likely to be able to make in a high-pressure situation.
The only reason they are not trained to aim for the head is because of the higher likelihood of missing the shot altogether.

Not quite. 16 is actually the age of consent in Washington, unless the older person is a teacher or otherwise in a position of authority.