LIVE FROM SEATTLE!
THE FUN AND GAMES CONTINUE!
HUNDREDS LEFT STANDIING OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OUTRAGED IN THE RAIN!
PUBLIC NOW OUTRAGED OVER PUBLIC OUTRAGE MEETING!
MAYOR A NO SHOW!!!
ACCESS TO HARRY POTTER BOOKS CURTAILED!
EVERYONE GETS WET!!!
Hey everyone - I went to the "public outrage" forum scheduled for 5 PM. yesterday evening and it was quite the dang scene! It was held in a room at the library - and the capacity of the room was only 226 people! Hundreds milled outside in the rain 'cause they couldn't get in! "This is crazy! This is nuts!" muttered one observer who prefers not to be identified - well, okay, it was me. "I mean - half the City of Seattle is pissed off and they schedule the open forum in a room slightly larger than a broom closet? For crying out loud what kind of Administration do we have running this city anyway? A Schell Administration? Oh....right never mind...." muttered another observer.
Okay that was me too.
At least a hundred or so people were lined up from the door of the library's fifth avenue entrance all the way out to fifth avenue and down the sidewalk. "Is this the line for people waiting to get into the meeting?" I asked one young man who looked vaguely like an anarchist from Eugene I had met last week. "No - this is the line for people waiting to SPEAK at the meeting Dude!"
Yeow!
Anyway - the folks running the meeting finally got some loudspeakers set up outside as the sodden citizenry seemed to want to hear what was going on in the public meeting that was allegedly being held for the public. A hundred or so people stood outside the big long wall of plate glass windows that looked into the meeting room - and the windows must have been of some concern to the people actually in the meeting room because once the crowd outside could actually HEAR the speakers venting their rage to the City Council they got a teensie-weensie rowdy....you know, cheering or booing depending on what was required....
Let me say this - there were a NUMBER of GREAT old lady speakers - and there is nothing like an outraged old lady to make a city council sit up and mind their manners! Anyway - this one outraged gray-haired old lady said she was OUTRAGED (I know I have been using "outrage" an outrageous amount of times - but that is what she really said!) that Mayor Paul Schell was not there. Jan Drago replied that the city council had requested that the mayor NOT be there! Someone in the crowd of sodden surly outside onlookers immediately yelled: "Bullshit!" Okay, that was me too. But then the whole crowd was yelling "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!"
Not too eloquent but we finally had our say!
