Local left wing blogger, Goldy of HorsesAss.Org (aka: Ron Sims Ass) decided to toss his hat in the ring and put in an application for the open spot on the Seattle City Council.
He had all the right qualifications: Lives in Seattle, is highly opinionated towards the left hand side of the aisle and fought on Gregiore’s side during the re-re-recount for the governorship. He even got the fact that he applied in the Seattle Times.
I figured he would be a shoe-in for getting his name high up on the list of candidates.
But like Rodney Dangerfield, bloggers just don’t get no respect.
They bumped his application on a technicality. Mostly being that he is an amateur political writer and uses curse words in his writing (and they figured he would probably use them during meetings).
The council board didn’t put it in those terms, of course; they said that putting his resume in his application letter was a no-no and needed to be completely separate from the letter.
By the book. Playing by the rules. Just following orders.
Those are the things an applicant needs to do to get on the Seattle City Council. That way, they’ll have something to forget so that they don’t forget who is in charge on the council.
Goldy is, of course, quite pissed about this.
“As far as I’m concerned, the Council, like much of government, is filled with a bunch of fearful, self-serious, humorless drones. They need to lighten up.�
And that is him putting it lightly.
He seems to have forgotten to honor his betters. At least that is what I’m sure the elitists on the council thought.