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Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Michael Charles is back in Iowa on tour with “Guitars, Music and Miles 2025” with a show at The Ideal Theater at 8pm on Saturday, May 3. Get your tickets now at idealtheaterandbar.com. To keep up with Michael Charles visit his website, michaelcharles.us. Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture … Continue reading
Hey Everybody!This week we have a very special guest with us in Michael Charles Hill, the original writer of the Cold Slither episode of original GIJoe!!What amazing timing with all the Cold Slither SDCC info dropping!!!Enjoy!MERCH STORE - www.teepublic.com/stores/knowing-is-half-the-podcastPatreon - Patreon.com/KnowingIsHalfThePodcastFacebook - Facebook.com/KnowingIsHalfThePodcastTwitter - @GijoePodcastPresident Serpentor - @PrezSerpentorSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/knowing-is-half-the-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dave talks to Michael Charles Hill, creator of Cold Slither, Special Mission Brazil, and so much more!Knowing is half the battle and fun is the other half! We're recruiting you to listen to this podcast hosted by three lifelong Joe fans.Our mission is to look at every era of GI Joe from the classic 12" Joes to today's modern Classified Series. From toys to comics to cartoons, the A.I. Pod is there! Yo Joe!Music by Andy SamfordFollow us on Instagram!
Join Dave as he talks to Michael Charles Hill, creator of GI Joe staples Cold Slither and Special Mission Brazil, as well as much, much more! Find the video version on the Needless Things YouTube channel! "Procrastibate" by LeSexoflex.com Social Media: Needless Things on Instagram Needless Things on Bluesky
Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Michael Charles joins us for live performances and an interview in Studio A.
This week on Excelsior Journeys, host & producer George Sirois sits down with writer Michael Charles Hill, and the two of them look back at his time as a writer/producer with Sunbow Productions. While there, Michael was responsible for some of the most memorable episodes of 1980s animation. Michael gave us the unforgettable riff of "Cold Slither" on G.I.Joe, the origin story of the Combaticons on TransFormers, Part 2 of the Season 3 episode "The Return of Optimus Prime," and so much more. For those who would like to get involved with the Once Upon a Podcast Network, please message onceuponapodcastnetwork@gmail.com with your contact information and the name & description of your show. And if you have an idea for any of the concepts listed below, definitely let us know! We'd like to add shows that focus on the following:Indie Comics / Cosplaying / Book Club (roundtable show with indie books & authors) / Indie Films / Conventions / Fan Fiction / Self-Help (a creative host focusing on ailments all creatives deal with such as anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, etc)Subscribe to all shows in the Once Upon a Podcast Network by clicking HERE.The Excelsior Journeys podcast exists primarily as a platform for creatives of all kinds (authors, filmmakers, stand-up comics, musicians, voice artists, painters, podcasters, etc) to share their journeys to personal success. It is very important to celebrate those voices as much as possible to not only provide encouragement to up-and-coming talent, but to say thank you to the established men & women for inspiring the current generation of artists.If you agree that the Excelsior Journeys podcast serves a positive purpose and would like to show your appreciation, you can give back to the show by clicking HERE.
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Host Ben Owden engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Michael Charles and Dr. Githinji Gitahi. They discuss the importance of social justice and equality as fundamental human rights. Dr. Gitahi highlights the need for awareness of male privilege and the importance of allyship in creating a level playing field for women. He calls for urgent policy changes to remove barriers and promote equity, advocating for a holistic approach to leadership that values empathy and inclusivity. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Charles, who has spearheaded initiatives to eradicate malaria and fostered significant partnerships at the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, shares insights on integrating systemic thinking into leadership. He stresses the importance of having a clear sense of purpose and the necessity of breaking social norms to pave the way for women and youth in leadership roles.WhyLead's Web: https://www.whyleadothers.com/
If you missed last week's episode with the creator of Cold Slither, Michael Charles Hill, go back and give that a spin! Then this week, we're revisiting our Behind the Rock homage to his great episode! Hope you enjoy and we'll be back next week with fresh content!
The father of Cold Slither, Michael Charles Hill, joins me this week for a wide ranging conversation about his journey through 80's animation and the incredible footprint that he left! From Cold Slither, to The Coil, to the Ghost of Starscream, Michael was the creator of many of your favorite things, and I'm so happy to have him on our show this week! I hope everyone has a fantastic JoeFest this week! Stop by Michael's booth and say hello! Happy for The Movies and A Meal Podcast too! They keep this show running and you should give them your support and love!
The guys are lucky enough to sit down with someone who helped mold the creativity of an entire generation, Executive Producer and writer Michael Charles Hill. He recounts stories with Gary Gygax, The Bozo Show, and Flint Dille through the years in his expansive experience.If you'd like to contact the guys, they'd love to hear from you!Edhatestransformers@gmail.comMorethanmeetstheseguys@gmail.com@mtmtgpod on Twitterhttps://www.facebook.com/MoreThanMeetsTheseGuys/https://discord.gg/sKr8jwaAvhIf you'd like to toss a buck or more per episode, we'd adore and say nice things about you. You don't have to, as we'll still gladly hang out with you guys and gals every week, but we appreciate any help! patreon.com/user?u=69144181
Michael Charles is the founder of Credit Freedom Solutions. Michael began to witness the relentless efforts his parents made to provide him with every possible advantage they couldn't afford for themselves. This experience instilled in him a deep sense of responsibility. He realized that school wasn't just about grades; it was about honoring their sacrifices, so he pushed himself to excel. Even at the young age of 18, he took on a full-time job while still in high school, not just for his sake, but for theirs. But the most transformative part of Michael's journey was navigating the maze of credit. Initially, he feared the unknown and avoided credit. However, when he decided it was time to transition from being a renter to a homeowner, he understood that a lack of credit can be more challenging than bad credit. So, he embarked on a journey to build his credit profile strategically. This journey led him to a powerful realization: Cash is king, but credit is power. Today, Michael's mission is simple: to debunk myths around credit and guide others on their financial journeys.
In this episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Michael Charles, of RSC Credit Freedom Solution. Michael discusses the critical importance of credit in both personal and business contexts and its impact on the insurance industry and overall financial health. Key Topics: Michael Charles discusses the significance of understanding and leveraging credit for personal and business advancement The epidemic of debt in the U.S., particularly among college students, and its long-term impact The role of credit in the insurance industry and its influence on underwriting decisions Strategies for responsible credit use and avoiding common pitfalls Michael Charles shares insights on repairing credit and the importance of accurate credit reports The impact of credit on various aspects of life, including business growth and personal finance management Practical tips for using credit cards wisely and maximizing benefits like cashback and points Connect with: David Carothers LinkedIn Kyle Houck LinkedIn Visit Websites: RSC Credit Freedom Solution Florida Risk Partners The Extra 2 Minutes
In this episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Michael Charles, of RSC Credit Freedom Solution. Michael discusses the critical importance of credit in both personal and business contexts and its impact on the insurance industry and overall financial health. Key Topics: Michael Charles discusses the significance of understanding and leveraging credit for personal and business advancement The epidemic of debt in the U.S., particularly among college students, and its long-term impact The role of credit in the insurance industry and its influence on underwriting decisions Strategies for responsible credit use and avoiding common pitfalls Michael Charles shares insights on repairing credit and the importance of accurate credit reports The impact of credit on various aspects of life, including business growth and personal finance management Practical tips for using credit cards wisely and maximizing benefits like cashback and points Connect with: David Carothers LinkedIn Kyle Houck LinkedIn Visit Websites: RSC Credit Freedom Solution Florida Risk Partners The Extra 2 Minutes
Order of Battle Podcast episode 106 Jason had the pleasure to sit down with Michael Hill. He was a producer and writer for Sunbow's GIJoe and Transfomers cartoons. He was also the author of the Special Mission Brazil cassette tape and Claymore character. Michael talks about what a producer's job was, hanging out with Jack Kirby and Gary Gygax, and in general being a part of the history of our love and passion, GIJoe. He is very giving of his time and the stories he tells are fantastic. Website: www.orderofbattlepod.com Email: orderofbattlepod@gmail.com Twitter: @orderofbattlepd Instagram: @orderofbattlepod #gijoe If you want to hear more from Michael, or see his work, you can find him here IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384524/ Assembly Required: https://youtu.be/1G3H60QMEvE New News Review: https://www.facebook.com/100000600215994/videos/316321811291557/
Michael Charles “Mike” Walters, departed this life on Saturday, October 7, 2023. He was preceded in death by his father, Andy Walters. He is survived by his wife, Caroline of 26 years; his sons, Peyton and Ian; his mother, Peggy Walters; his sister, Denise Burchett (Fred); his brother, John Walters (Sally); nieces, Christine and Brittany; nephews, Dean and Ryan; and numerous relatives in Texas. Mike was born and raised in Richmond, Va. He graduated from Trinity Episcopal HS and received a BS in Economics from The University of Virginia. He enjoyed a 34-year career in medical device sales with DePuy...Article LinkSupport the show
With the rollout of two new malaria vaccines on the horizon in Africa, the outlook for fighting the disease looks optimistic. But is it enough?In this episode of our Africa Science Focus Science Explained series, Michael Charles, head of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, tells us why he believes Africa must lead the drive to end the disease. Charles hails the “groundbreaking” latest WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix M, but stresses the need to keep up other malaria control measures too.We also hear from Chika Offor, CEO of the Vaccine Network for Disease Control, who says people in the region must see the value of the vaccine if the rollout campaign is to be successful.----------------------------------------This piece was produced by SciDev.Net's Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.Do you have any comments, questions or feedback about our podcast episodes? Let us know at podcast@scidev.net
“Introducing Billy Bradley" A veteran of commercials, movies and television while still only in his 30s, Michael Charles Roman is one of those timeless actors. He's got the punchline prowess of everyone from Michael J. Fox to Jason Bateman, the comedic instincts of Martin Short and the theatrical range that could find him doing period pieces to contemporary dramas. Roman was in films like Keeping The Faith with Ed Norton and Ben Stiller, Little Nicky with Adam Sandler and Rob Burnett's We Made This Movie. When it comes to TV, you've seen him on Bones, The Good Wife,Veronica Mars, Ground Floor, 2 Broke Girls, Evil, Frequency, and most recently, NetFlix's Grace and Frankie with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.The guy can do it all. And just to test that idea, he decided to do it all on his first short film Introducing Billy Bradley. The film is a semi-autobiographical short written, directed and produced by Roman, who also stars alongside his former Grace and Frankie scene partner Martin Sheen (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now). Introducing Billy Bradley follows a down-on-his-luck actor who finds himself at a critical crossroads: save his life or salvage what's left of his floundering career. The movie also stars Alexandra Metz (CW's Frequency), Arjay Smith (ABC's The Rookie, TNT's Perception) and Garrett Morris (CBS's 2 Broke Girls, Saturday Night Live). Billy Bradley does what the best short films do—leave you both satisfied and wanting more. Not an easy balance, but in his directional debut, Roman does just that. It's a brilliant film that in just 14 minutes, manages to do what some films take hours to attempt to do. Introducing Billy Bradley: https://vimeo.com/762362781 Michael Charles Roman on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738722/ www.bombshellradio.com www.stereoembersmagazine.com www.embersarts.com Stereo Embers The Podcast Twitter: @emberseditor IG: @emberspodcast EMAIL: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com
This is an amazing interview because Michael Charles Vaccaro boards the mothership! You know him as Lain on Amazon Prime's The Consultant. We discuss working with the legendary Christoph Waltz and that famous sponge scene. Enjoy! #Michaelvaccaro #theconsultant #amazonprime #christophwaltz
4-10-23 show- Phoenix, Arizona young trop rocker Michael Charles interview, MOTB interview with Kirstie Kraus, Cindy Muir interviews Tennessee trop rocker Steve Hopper, MOTB interview with Dave Freeman of the Trop Rock Junkies. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/a1a-media-network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On this Friday show, we present Part 2 of the Hacks & Wonks 2022 Post-Primary Election Recap which was live-streamed on August 9, 2022 with special guests EJ Juárez and Doug Trumm. In Part 2, the panel breaks down primary election results for State Legislature seats in the battleground district of the 47th LD and in Seattle-area Democrat vs Democrat races in the 36th, 37th, and 46th LDs, The historical importance of The Stranger endorsement in the progressive path out of the primary is discussed as well as Doug and EJ's thoughts on other races in the 42nd LD and for Secretary of State. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-hosts, EJ Juárez at @EliseoJJuarez and Doug Trumm at @dmtrumm. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources Hacks & Wonks 2022 Primary Election Recap Livestream | August 9th, 2022: https://www.officialhacksandwonks.com/august-2022-postprimary-recap Transcript [00:00:00] Bryce Cannatelli: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Bryce from the Hacks & Wonks production team. On this show we talk with Policy Wonks and Political Hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work, with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening and what you can do about it. You're listening to part 2 of our 2022 Post-Primary Election Recap, with special guests EJ Juárez and Doug Trumm, that we live-streamed on August 9th, 2022. If you missed part 1, you can find it as the previous episode of your podcast feed, or you can find the audio and transcript for the full recap on our website, officialhacksandwonks.com. Thank you for listening! [00:00:59] Crystal Fincher: Another very interesting district is the 47th Legislative District, which is half of Kent, Covington, Maple Valley, parts of Auburn - again, a very purple district - one that sees two open seats - an incumbent remaining in Representative Debra Entenman, but an open Senate seat after Mona Das announced that she was leaving and an open House seat after Pat Sullivan retired. And so we had competitive Democratic and Republican primaries going on here with open seats, just a lot of questions about what is going to happen here in the 47th - very hard to predict. But we saw some really interesting results. Again, this is one of the districts that Republicans said was one of their top targets - definitely in the top two or three targets that they felt were there for pickups and turning these seats that were held by Republican [Democratic] incumbents and two of them now open seats into Republican pickups. And what we saw was in the one seat with Debra Entenman, she finished comfortably with 55% against a Republican candidate, Kyle Lyebyedyev. There was another Republican contesting in the race, but Debra made it through fairly comfortably. We had a Senate race with Satwinder Kaur and Claudia Kauffman as Democrats against Bill Boyce, the Republican. Bill Boyce, who is a City Councilmember in the City of Kent, a Republican, also a Black Republican that's running here is - has 45.58%. And then a very, very, very close race between Claudia Kauffman and Satwinder Kaur. Currently, Claudia Kauffman is leading with 27.23% over Satwinder with 27.02%. This is a race that is under a hundred votes separating the two and it looks like Claudia Kauffman is going to squeeze and squeak through here. This is a really interesting race. And again, you look at the combined percentage of the Democratic vote - they're above, they're like 54% there. That's a great result that we see on the Democratic side, but wow, what a really closely contested race. And then in the other seat, we saw two Democrats - Chris Stearns with 33.4% against Shukri Olow, another Democrat, who is making it through - both Democrats making it through the primary - Shukri with 19.6% against three Republicans. One of - again, a party pick for the Republicans - Carmen Goers raised $200,000 in the primary, spent the bulk of it. She actually finished in last place. This was another Black Republican here with two other Republican white male opponents who finished with 15.1% and 17.4%, respectively, with Ted Cooke and Barry Knowles. Very interesting result. I don't know that many people - I certainly did not call that there was gonna be a Democratic shutout in one of these seats in this purple district, or that the other results looked so strong in favor of the other ones. What do you see when you see this 47th Legislative District race, Doug? [00:04:37] Doug Trumm: Yeah. You can't get any bigger with them not even making it to the primary. So having two Democrats in that Position 2 seat - that is going to be an exciting race, but not for the Republicans. But we'll circle back to that, 'cause I do want to talk about that race more, but I suppose we should talk about the other races more a little bit too. Mona Das retiring - I think that certainly led to some nervousness that we're not gonna have the incumbent advantage and that didn't seem to be an issue with the result. And it does look like it'll be Claudia Kauffman, so again - an established name - but someone I think who seemed to do a good job, so someone I'm actually glad to see coming back. I'm not always thrilled when you get people who keep going back for many decades, but I think that one is an exception. But yeah, and going back to the 30th as well - on the Democratic side, I guess over all those years of not having that many Black - and apologies for my cat making all that noise - not having that many Black candidates, I guess assumption was they would do worse than the white candidates that people were putting forward, or just maybe wasn't even a thought. But it's pretty clear that those Black candidates are doing just as good as any of the white candidates, if not better, because we see these results in the 30th and in the 47th and all across really the metro area where we're seeing voters really resonating with these folks. If anything, it appears to be an asset. And yeah, it just clearly is a district that is slipping away from Republicans and they don't seem to be doing very much to fix that. And as you mentioned, Carmen Goers finishing fifth when she had the support of the party at, I think, all levels. And then additionally, she had The Seattle Times endorsement, which didn't appear to be worth the paper it was written on - which I don't know if that's true of every race, but in the 47th that's a really embarrassing finish for the Seattle Times. And as EJ alluded to - a Viking funeral for $200,000 worth of cash - that's gotta be one of the only times that's happened in Washington history - that a candidate has raised $200,000 in a primary and then finished fifth, at least at the state legislator level. [00:07:14] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, absolutely. What did you see here, EJ? [00:07:19] EJ Juárez: I saw - I think one of the most exciting things for me is that this actually might be the first time where we have two Native people representing the same district in the House in Washington State. And I think that is incredible - the opportunity and the history making moment of those candidates' ascension if they are the victors in November. I really think that is the underreported takeaway of this cycle in that these are two candidates, although one has - both of them are previously elected in other offices - that's a big deal, right? On the other end of that spectrum, it is wildly confusing to me the uneven field game that has occurred in the 47th. We have some candidates who were deeply knocking on doors every weekend, huge volunteer turnout. And then we have some candidates who really focused on media and focused on really traditional electronic - I don't even know if that's the way to put it, "traditional electronic" - they weren't at the doors, they weren't making a ton of phone calls, and they were pretty open about it. So I think there's a lot of questions to be answered in terms of how people got through and the vote share. So when you're looking at Rep Position 2 with Shukri and Chris, Shukri outraised Chris and really produced not very many votes for that. And when you look at the per dollar spend on per vote, it doesn't really - the math doesn't quite work out the way you would expect. Now, a D-on-D race in that is going to be pretty - there will be fireworks, right? Because you have to make up a considerable amount of points and the clock is reset for both of those candidates. So I'm watching them really closely. I'm excited. I think they're both great candidates. I think they're both folks who, as they move towards the general, are going to start to distinguish themselves to voters. I think when you look at that Senate race, I cannot help but think if I was a Republican strategist and fundraiser, I would've wanted to pour a lot more money into that race supporting a Black Republican versus some of the white Republicans, which received much higher proportions of spend from caucus accounts and from PACs associated with Republicans. There's probably some obvious reasons for that on that side that don't need to go too much into depth on, but it is shocking that in a three-way race, the Republican still only musters 45%. [00:10:06] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I think that's all valid. And I even think - actually in this district in the 47th, it has been an interesting one. This is actually - I live near the border of the 47th - the 47th and the 33rd District border. And in the 47th, actually, we've traditionally seen Black candidates, visibly non-Christian candidates - whether it's someone with a hijab or a turban - underperform compared to spend a number of times here. And so it's interesting to see these results come through. I don't know what role that played on the Republican side also, but that's just another dynamic in this race that has been interesting. I do think that this sets up - just for the candidates that are there, that are gonna be in the general - really interesting matchups and comparisons. And I do think that Democrats - all of the Democrats in these races - do need to be out on the doors, do need to work through the general. Certainly a favorable result in the primary, but another one where they can't rest at all and need to continue to push forward. But one where I think - this was an area where people were wondering - Hey, where's the public safety conversation gonna be? And are Republicans gonna be able to land some hits here and are people hyper-worried about inflation? I think, yet again in this district, I think people saw that the conversation on public safety on the ground is a lot more nuanced than it is in the media - I think is safe to say. So many times we hear the conversation between more cops and "Back the Blue" and - hey, we're - no candidates are actually running on this, FYI - but like "Defund Everything." There's not actually a candidate saying that right now, but the perception is out there - that that has been there. And people aren't there - even people who favor more police, who are not bothered by more police - are saying - but what we really need are behavioral health services, are substance use disorder, addiction treatment services, are housing for people. We have to address these root causes. If there's an issue with someone who is going through a crisis, police just don't have the tools to solve that. I think that's pretty universally acknowledged and not a controversial statement. And when polling goes beyond just some very basic questions and probes into those, we repeatedly see the public saying - yeah, of course we need those things. And so it was very interesting to see some of these attacks - whether it's in the 30th, or throughout the state, in the 47th - on those issues and they just fell flat. And even on the inflation issue, people are worried and people are absolutely squeezed, but looking at - okay, so what are you gonna do about it? And I think Democrats told a better story about - okay, here's the plan. This is what we plan to invest in and this is how we plan to help. I think working people felt that Democrats had a plan that was more tailored to their needs from Democrats. So just an interesting result that we saw there. We will pivot a bit to the Seattle races, which are different than all of these battleground races that we've been talking about. And these are in the City of Seattle - Democrat versus Democrat races. We saw a number of open seat races that have happened here. And so we can start with the 36th District, which had a pretty stark and conclusive result, I think, in the open seat race that was there, where there was a contested primary that had five Democratic candidates there - different shades of there, from more progressive to probably on the most moderate end with Waylan Robert. But we saw Julia Reed, who received The Seattle Times and The Stranger endorsement take 55% of the vote, followed by Jeff Manson who is making it through the primary with 13.5% of the vote. And then followed by Nicole Gomez, Waylon Robert, and Elizabeth Tyler Crone. Looks like that is a race that is Julia's for the taking, I think realistically, just looking there. And certainly benefited from both The Times and The Stranger endorsement. There's another race in the 37th in South Seattle where Chipalo Street got both The Stranger and The Times endorsement, but that was a much closer race where we saw Chipalo with 41% of the vote - 41.53% - and Emijah Smith making it through the primary with 35.37% of the vote - a much closer race. We saw in the 46th Legislative District - Darya Farivar make it through in first place, the progressive candidate in the race - she currently has 31.61% of the vote and Lelach Rave finishing in second, making it through the primary at 28.06% of the vote. And then we saw in the 34th Legislative District, in that open seat there, Emily Alvarado with 54% of the vote to Leah Griffin's 31.2%. I'll kick this off, as we discuss these Seattle races at-large. It's been talked about so many times before - how in Seattle, how consequential the Seattle Times and The Stranger endorsements are. On a previous post-primary recap, Michael Charles put it very succinctly - saying there are two political parties in Seattle - The Seattle Times and The Seattle Stranger. And actually went back and looked at the numbers - and for races in the City of Seattle, for legislative districts in Seattle, for candidates on the ballot, for the past decade - candidates endorsed by The Stranger have made it through to the primary a 100% of the time. It actually seems like, particularly for progressive candidates, the path requires going through The Stranger - requires that endorsement to make it on to the general. How consequential is that, and what do you think we saw overall in general in these races, Doug? [00:16:50] Doug Trumm: Yeah, I think that Stranger endorsement - it's really huge, particularly in a primary in Seattle - I think the 46th is where we really saw the test of that. In Seattle the Urbanist Elections Committee, which I'm a member of, is lucky enough to talk to most of the candidates. And when people skip - usually it's a sign that they're either running in that centrist lane, or they just got the race together so late that they didn't really have time or put it together enough to respond. But we agreed with The Stranger and The Seattle Times with Julia Reed - I think there's a unique case where there's just a candidate that was so - just polished - and any other candidates had some promise, but there just weren't really compelling case to say - but why not, Julia Reed. And I think that's a testament to running a really good race and being a good candidate. And hopefully everyone's right about that, 'cause I don't think you see all three of us agree very often. In the 46th, on the other hand, we did end up endorsing Melissa Taylor and really liked what she brought to the table in housing. But we were also - really thought that Darya Farivar was a fantastic candidate as well. And particularly around the issues of transportation - being Policy Director at Disability Rights Washington, which is a great partner of us and a great leader on all these climate and climate justice issues at the state level and the local level. So we were happy with both candidates and great to see Darya go through and being several points ahead of Lelach where - we didn't get a chance to talk to her. And I think she's more in the Sara Nelson lane of the party who endorsed her, if you will. How that race shakes out will have, I think, pretty big bearing on just what is possible on some issues like housing, where it seems like someone like Rave is staking out a very moderate position there and not really being upfront about - Hey, we need to do something about exclusionary zoning, we need to make our zoning more inclusive and be able to fit more people into parts of the city - where Northeast Seattle is so wealthy, so much opportunity, so many good schools and good parks and everything, and it's a part of the city that's pulled up the drawbridge a little bit. Maybe she will change her tune on that position a little bit, but I think - although Darya didn't talk about housing a lot, she's someone who on the questionnaire was pretty clear - she's on that same page around ending exclusionary zoning and promoting missing middle. It's an issue that we track really closely - polling shows that Washington voters are increasingly focused on that. And I think it's because people are smart and you get that the whole world's experiencing inflation - you can't really blame one party for that. You maybe can blame Putin for that a little bit, but no one can control Putin. But what are you gonna do to help people control their costs? And one - the hugest thing is housing. It's just - it's a massive cost in our region. And if you don't have a solution that both gets at promoting affordable housing through investment and also dealing with our zoning and policies that just make it really restrictive to create more housing, you're not really tackling that problem. And I think for some voters that's really starting to hit home, which could give a candidate like Darya the edge. And I will let EJ break down some of the other races, as I've gone on long enough. But it definitely was a reassuring result in that sense. [00:20:45] EJ Juárez: Yeah, so I - one, I appreciate being on a show with Doug because Doug is so smart about so many things. And as he is talking, I'm writing down things - oh, I need to look into some of that. For me, back to the question around endorsements and the power of The Stranger. I think Michael Charles was absolutely right around the two-party system now. I also feel like it is incredibly disingenuous for anybody who works in politics to be surprised if the candidate who gets The Stranger endorsement gets through. I think it shows a lack of context around just how much that means to people, both as a key part of many people's own political maturity within the city, right? The Stranger serves as this thing that people learn about Seattle from, learn how Seattle operates - and discounting the weight of that endorsement is done at one's own peril. I think how we get, how we've gotten to this place - and many of these endorsements and many of the races bear this out - is that there are a couple of things at play. Media consolidation has removed many of the other endorsing organizations that had typically seen - excuse me, typically been seen as nonpartisan, right? We no longer have The Seattle PI, we no longer have many of the regional or neighborhood papers that were also doing this for many years. The lanes of engagement have also changed for people who are coming into elected office. The salaries that we pay people to do public service no longer match the cost of living in many of our cities. So therefore, you are narrowing the field more and more and more as this goes. I think the two remaining factors that I think of when you think about just the power of these - of The Times and The Stranger's endorsements - are the policy hegemony, right? The lane in which we talk about policies is so locked in and narrow in the full spectrum of possibility. So the process of differentiating - if we're looking at the 36th - 7 candidates, is it 2, 4, or 6 candidates who have minor policy differences and may only sell that difference with enthusiasm or gusto differently, but are 99% aligned - is more and more difficult for voters to actually judge on policy versus performance. And I think that gets to the last piece here of - the opposition that is understood in Seattle politics has become more and more clear around - there is the folks that are trying to do good and the folks that are trying to do bad. And the folks that are trying to do bad - when I started working in politics here, that was - you could name 50 different organizations, 50 different people off the top of your head. And now it feels like every campaign has really locked in on - the bad guys are Amazon, the bad guys are the tech bros, the bad guys are X, Y, and Z, but it's really focused on small pockets of opposition. And for many reasons, some of those groups earn that label - I will say that - but in many ways it limits the amount of discourse that happens. And I'm going on a little bit long, but I think it can't be overstated that many of these factors inform how we got to a place where two newspapers informed so much of our political success in the City. [00:24:25] Crystal Fincher: Yeah - to your point - the reason why Hacks & Wonks exists is because of the frustration with how narrow and shallow some of those conversations can be, with so much consolidation and with the thinning of just the amount of people covering these races, the amount of visibility that races and policy have, the lack of accountability that we see with so many of our leaders - not just federally, but in the City of Seattle - we're still wondering what happened to texts that disappeared at a really pivotal time in the City. So it is challenging to work through that and deal with that. And I just think that this is a time where I hope lots of community organizations lean in and engage and try to connect their own memberships, their own spheres of influence to the process. One thing that I found really exciting about these results that I haven't really seen talked about was - there's a lot of public polling available, but the primary is a spectacular, actual public poll. And when we talk about inclusive zoning and making progress on affordable housing, the vast majority of voters in every single district - from the 46th to the 37th - voted in favor of the candidates who said we're taking on exclusive zoning, we're going to make it more inclusive, we're going to vote for that missing middle housing bill, and that spoke strongly in favor of it. That they voted overwhelmingly for candidates who talked about strengthening the social safety net, who talked about addressing behavioral health services, substance use disorder services, supportive housing and wraparound services - and not just focusing on the - well, we just need to lock people up and do what we've been doing that has landed us here today. They're really talking about addressing a lot of these root causes and taking substantive - not incremental, but pretty dynamic - change in many of these areas. And voters were right there, so I think that that was encouraging to see. And I would just wonder and hope that we're going to see that reflected and responded to throughout the general election. Full disclosure - I worked for Melissa Taylor, I've paid close attention to the 46th and a number of these races - and am excited to see a strong progressive get through in that race - and Darya Farivar, especially with a lot of the work that she's done in disability justice, which is critical. And so it's just gonna be really interesting to see as these general election races go by, and I think the 37th Legislative District looks like a very competitive race that could go either way right now, that it's gonna be really interesting to hear in these opportunities where it's not quite a Democrat versus Republican conversation that does get flattened a lot, but hopefully we can get into some of the meatiness of issues. There's a lot of policy space in the Democratic arena, in the progressive arena to really talk through - what are your plans for fixing the issues that are challenging people? How do you plan to make people's lives easier and simpler and what are you going to stand up for? Where are your red lines? What are you gonna lead on? Are really interesting and exciting things to see, that I see there. So I think that the entire media ecosystem from The Urbanist playing a crucial role, the South Seattle Emerald, Real Change - just a lot of community media. Community organizations have a lot of power just because there just aren't many people covering or talking about this - and this is an opportunity for them to talk about what's important to them, their members, people they serve, their community. And we need it now more than ever - as we finish thinking about these Seattle races and just other races across the state, is there anything that you think is flying under the radar that's notable or things that we haven't discussed tonight that you feel we should be paying attention to? And I will start with Doug. [00:29:05] Doug Trumm: Oh, so many things - I think, just to add another thought about the Seattle races is - again, I think what was another case with Chipalo Street, where we endorsed him as well and I think that's another race where Seattle Times and Stranger - we agreed. And I think that may have partially been just an advantage of him having his game plan set when he announced and it seemed like Emijah Smith was a little bit more still trying to catch up - announcing a little bit later, I think. And we didn't get a chance to talk to her, so that was part of our decision - she didn't return a questionnaire. But he was someone who was really good at talking about housing. So again, I think that fits the theme and Emily Alvarado doing better than Leah Griffin, who we endorsed - but we like both candidates, we were very clear that you have two great options there - again, someone with housing chops was doing a little better. I don't know - I might be stretching this theme a little bit much, but it definitely seems like credibility on that issue is a huge asset. And that should be good news. Unfortunately we're gonna have people like Gerry Pollet getting re-elected, but they might look at this and go - maybe I've been doing this a little bit wrong if I really want to continue getting re-elected. But I guess one race we didn't talk a lot about - but we shouldn't shy away from the bad news, which is the 42nd did not go well for Democrats. You had hope of a Senate pickup there and it's still not completely impossible, but Sharon Shewmake, who is an incumbent House representative, getting 47% in that district - that's not a great result against two Republicans. And one of 'em did have kind of that name ID - Simon Sefzik, or however you say that - so that might have helped him, but does look like he'll be the one through. So she'll continue to face that in the primary. And then we have actually - two of those seats are Democratic held, so the people lower on the ticket did a little bit better. But these could be the two seats we lose, but I do think we make that up maybe in LD10 where Greg Gilday, the Republican incumbent, isn't doing well at all - is down like four points. And also in the 26th, as we've talked about a little bit, with having Adison Richards potentially being a pickup there - it might end up coming out in the wash. But I don't know what's going on in the 42nd - I thought that district was drifting a little bit blue, but - and the redistricting is really odd because it's such a huge district - all the changes happened within the sort of Bellingham scope. And I guess they must have just carved out a little bit of Bellingham that was keeping that district where Shewmake was winning. And it's also - I guess, maybe Shewmake wasn't as strong of a candidate as maybe some of - her seatmate Alicia Rule doing a point and change better. I don't know if that's just the money in that race or what, or if it really should have been flip-flopped who tried to grab that Senate seat, but it might have been for naught if that district is just now a +3 or something Republican - you really have to run a really good race maybe to win that. And with Republicans pouring money in there, it's not as favorable terrain - which kind of brings us back to redistricting - it's a weirdly drawn district and I guess we left it that way, but why? Maybe I'll leave it at that for now and let others jump in. [00:32:44] Crystal Fincher: Go ahead, EJ. [00:32:45] EJ Juárez: I think I'll start with the 42nd. I think this is a district that is an opportunity for Democrats to begin with, right? If it were not for the death of conspiracy theorist, COVID-denying Doug Ericksen, who loved to work for dictators - I think we wouldn't even be in this situation. Any Democrat who is putting up numbers right now - it was an uphill battle - and I think that the points are valid around just how hard that was going to be for just about anybody, given the challenges of where the lines are gonna be and all these things. I think in terms of other stuff that is top of mind for me is the real tragedy of Julie Anderson's run for Secretary of State - incredible underperformance, not even carrying her own county of Pierce County, running as an independent against the incumbent Steve Hobbs - is something that I can't, I keep coming back to where I'm like - all right, that does not make sense in my head yet. Given everybody's enthusiasm of keeping Steve Hobbs as far away as possible from actually legislating - that part does. But the lack of challenge to his ascension into the Secretary of State's office seems a bit odd. It is almost certain that the Democrat will hold that seat for the first time in 60 years, and I think that is something that is to celebrate. I think that is a good thing for Washington, even as oddly as we have arrived at that fact. Some of the other quick things on my list is - as long as you're asking for that grab bag - I'll go back to the complete lack of strategy on the Republican side, in terms of how they are planning on taking and building a majority in this state. Still top of mind for me - it is the bright, shiny object of - are they going to produce a strategy at any point in the next decade? I don't know. And then lastly, where Democrats have made long-term investments, they are starting to yield the results and the rewards of that - whether that's Federal Way, whether that's in the 26th out in Gig Harbor - Democrats are getting those rewards for decisions and investments that they made 8-10 years ago. And the multiple cycle layering of those massive multimillion dollar investments in voter turnout, in improving the data on who lives in those areas, and making the case to those voters is making their job easier. And when you look at places that have not enjoyed that investment that are continually looked at as opportunities and pickups, especially when you're looking at the kind of "demographics as destiny" argument that gets made, we don't see perennial investments in places where there are large populations of color that are ascendant to majorities. We haven't seen the multi-layered approach in Yakima. We haven't seen that multi-layered approach in the Tri-Cities. And frankly, the results show - Democrats are not moving forward in many of those primaries and the lack of investment from the party shows. But where they have done it, it has been an incredible reward for them. [00:36:03] Crystal Fincher: Completely agree. And with that, this recap comes to a close. I want to thank our panelists - EJ Juárez, Doug Trumm - for their insight and making this an engaging and informative event. To those watching online, thanks so much for tuning in and for sending in questions. If you missed any of the discussion tonight, you can catch up on the Hacks & Wonks Facebook page or Twitter, where we're @HacksWonks. Special thanks to essential members of the Hacks & Wonks team and coordinators for this evening, Shannon Cheng and Bryce Cannatelli. If you missed voting in the primary, you still have time to make your voice heard in the general elections coming up on November 8th. If you need to register to vote, update your registration, or find information, you can go to MyVote.wa.gov. And as a reminder, even if you've been previously incarcerated, your right to vote is restored and you can re-register to vote immediately upon your release, even if you are still under community supervision - so that's new this year. You can vote if you are not currently incarcerated - you just need to re-register at MyVote.wa.gov. Be sure to tune into Hacks & Wonks on your favorite podcast app for our midweek interviews and our Friday week in review shows or at officialhacksandwonks.com. I've been your host, Crystal Fincher - see you next time. [00:37:27] Bryce Cannatelli: Thank you for listening to part 2 of our Hacks & Wonks 2022 Post-Primary Election Recap. If you missed part 1, you can find both parts of the livestream in our podcast feed or you can find the video and text transcript for the full recap on our website at officialhacksandwonks.com. Thank you for tuning in - talk to you next time.
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This week we have the second part of the Hacks & Wonks post-election breakdown, featuring Executive Director of America Walks and former mayor of Seattle Mike McGinn, Managing Partner of Upper Left Strategies Michael Charles, and Co-Founder of the Mercury Group and former Colleen Echohawk campaign consultant, Bill Broadhead! They get into election results from outside of Seattle, the continual incorrect characterization of the most progressive elected officials as the "most divisive", the need to hold elected officials accountable to their campaign promises, how strange the office of City Attorney actually is, and much more. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii, Bill Broadhead at @billbroadhead, Michael Charles at @mikeychuck, and Mike McGinn at @mayormcginn. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources "Seattle Progressives Gain 13 Points from Election Night, but Come Up Short" by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/11/12/seattle-progressives-gain-13-points-from-election-night-but-come-up-short/ "Where Urbanists and Progressives Go from Poor 2021 Showing" by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/11/05/where-urbanists-and-progressives-go-from-poor-2021-showing/ "Election results for Seattle and King County 2021 races" by Crosscut Staff from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/11/election-results-seattle-and-king-county-2021-races "Hamdi Mohamed and Toshiko Grace Hasegawa, both challenges in Port of Seattle Commission races, take lead" by Akash Pasricha from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/mohamed-and-hasegawa-both-challengers-in-port-of-seattle-commission-races-take-lead/ "What the Seattle election results mean for progressives" by Katie Wilson from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/11/what-seattle-election-results-mean-progressives "Bruce Harrell and other winners of Seattle elections made big promises. Next they'll try to deliver" by Daniel Beekman and Jim Brunner from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bruce-harrell-and-other-winners-of-seattle-elections-made-big-promises-next-theyll-try-to-deliver/ "Republican Ann Davison, talking law and order, wins Seattle City Attorney race" by Mike Carter from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/republican-ann-davison-defeats-nicole-thomas-kennedy-to-become-seattles-first-woman-city-attorney/ "Election Analysis: Garcia surpasses Barrett as Mora unseats Marx in Burien City Council races" by Nicholas Johnson from The B-Town Blog: https://b-townblog.com/2021/11/06/election-analysis-garcia-surpasses-barrett-as-mora-unseats-marx-in-burien-city-council-races/ "Six takeaways from the 2021 Spokane City Council election results" by Daniel Walters from the Inlander: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/six-takeaways-from-the-2021-spokane-city-council-election-results/Content?oid=22652130 "Election Results 4: Challengers continue to hold leads in SeaTac City Council races" from The SeaTac Blog: https://seatacblog.com/2021/11/07/election-results-4-challengers-continue-to-hold-leads-in-seatac-city-council-races/ Transcript The transcript will be uploaded as soon as possible.
This week Crystal is joined for part one of a post-election breakdown by Executive Director of America Walks and former mayor of Seattle Mike McGinn, Managing Partner of Upper Left Strategies Michael Charles, and Co-Founder of the Mercury Group and former Colleen Echohawk campaign consultant, Bill Broadhead! They discuss the irony of Bruce Harrell running as an “outsider” candidate, the importance of having a powerful message and transmitting it effectively to the voters, and why the Seattle political establishment doesn't necessarily reflect the changing demographics of Seattle. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii, Bill Broadhead at @billbroadhead, Michael Charles at @mikeychuck, and Mike McGinn at @mayormcginn. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources “Harrell is Seattle's next mayor, after González concedes” by David Kroman from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/news/2021/11/harrell-seattles-next-mayor-after-gonzalez-concedes “Election results for Seattle and King County 2021 races” by Crosscut Staff from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/11/election-results-seattle-and-king-county-2021-races “No incumbent in Seattle mayoral race, but candidates still running against City Hall” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/no-incumbent-in-seattle-mayoral-race-but-candidates-still-running-against-city-hall/ “‘In This House,' Seattle Votes for the Status Quo” by Erica C. Barnett from Publicola: https://publicola.com/2021/11/04/in-this-house-seattle-votes-for-the-status-quo/ “PAC spending in Seattle elections tops $3 million with late surge in real estate, business money” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/pac-spending-in-seattle-elections-tops-3-million-with-late-surge-in-real-estate-business-money/ “We Have a Culture War…in the Seattle City Attorney's Race?” by Benjamin Cassidy from The Seattle Met: https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2021/10/who-are-the-candidates-for-seattle-city-attorney “Progresses on the ropes? 5 takeaways from Seattle's election night returns” by Jim Brunner and David Gutman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/progressives-on-the-ropes-five-takeaways-from-seattles-election-night-returns/
Today Crystal is joined by Michael Charles, political consultant and managing partner at Upper Left Strategies. Elections are coming up next Tuesday, November 2nd, and Crystal and Michael break down spending in the Seattle City Attorney's race, how campaigns are spending their money and what the strategies may be behind it, races to watch all around the state, and the importance of paying attention to political races outside of Seattle. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Michael Charles, at @mikeychuck. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. References: “The 2021 Seattle Mayor's Race By The Numbers” by Erica C. Barnett from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/09/29/the-2021-seattle-mayors-race-by-the-numbers/ “PAC spending in Seattle elections tops $3 million with late surge in real estate, business money” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/pac-spending-in-seattle-elections-tops-3-million-with-late-surge-in-real-estate-business-money/ “Seattle mayoral race filled with ads, PAC money, and cash” by David Hyde and Gracie Todd from KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-candidates-court-voters-with-campaign-ads-pac-cash-flows-into-seattle-s-mayoral-race “Poll finds overwhelming support among Seattle voters for JumpStart tax” by Marc Stiles from the Puget Sound Business Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/09/10/seattle-voters-overwhelmingly-support-jumpstart.html “Gap in strategy, fundraising opens up between Seattle City Attorney candidate” by Nick Bowman from MyNorthwest: https://mynorthwest.com/3096045/seattle-city-attorney-fundraising-gap/ “Fact Check: Ann Davison's Mailer Is Misleading, Full of Inaccuracies, Dumb, and Disqualifying” by Rich Smith from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/07/27/59571999/fact-check-ann-davisons-mailer-is-misleading-full-of-inaccuracies-dumb-and-disqualifying “Q&A with Kent City Council candidates Cawthorn, Troutner” by Steve Hunter from The Kent Reporter: https://www.kentreporter.com/news/qa-with-kent-city-council-candidates-cawthon-troutner/ “Q&A with Kent School Board candidates Clark, Franklin” by Steve Hunter from The Kent Reporter: https://www.kentreporter.com/news/qa-with-kent-school-board-candidates-clark-franklin/ “Will Local Governments Reflect the Changing Demographics of South King County?” by Phil Manzano from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/06/30/will-local-governments-reflect-the-changing-demographics-of-south-king-county/ “King County Conservatives Discredit Progressive POC Candidates as ‘Defund' Extremists” by Nathalie Graham from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/10/28/king-county-conservatives-discredit-progressive-poc-candidates-as-defund-extremists/ “Outside campaign spending on Spokane City Council races grows to unprecedented level” by Adam Shanks from The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/oct/28/outside-campaign-spending-on-spokane-city-council-/ “Northeast Spokane candidates Sherazi, Bingle debate homelessness, public safety” by Adam Shanks at The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/oct/21/sherazi-bingle-debate-homelessness-public-safety/ Transcript: The transcript will be uploaded as soon as possible.
Jake Leither talks with blues musician Michael Charles, who will be performing at LeMusique Room on Thursday, October 21st.
This week on the show we have the second half of the Consultant Roundtable, featuring Consultants Riall Johnson of Prism Consulting, Michael Charles of Upper Left Strategies, and Heather Weiner discussing the results of the primary elections, and what we can expect from the general election in November. Discussion points include the Kathy Lambert's risks in the King County Council race, the upset in the City Attorney's race, the possibility of having abolitionists both on the Seattle City Council and in the City Attorney's office, the low hanging fruit that is Senator Reuven Carlyle, the frequent mischaracterization of Seattle voters as being far more conservative than they actually are, and the fact that real live Republicans exist in King County. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii, Michael Charles at @mikeychuck, Heather Weiner at @hlweiner, and Riall Johnson at @RiallJohnson. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources “Lambert leads District 3 primary for King County Council” by Conor Wilson from the Issaquah Reporter: https://www.issaquahreporter.com/news/lambert-leads-district-3-primary-for-king-county-council/ “Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes concedes primary election” by David Kroman from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/news/2021/08/seattle-city-attorney-pete-holmes-concedes-primary-election “Four reasons Seattle's left will likely prevail in November” by Katie Wilson from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/08/four-reasons-seattles-left-will-likely-prevail-november “Progressive Trend Emerging in Late Primary Election Returns” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/08/06/progressive-trend-emerging-in-late-primary-election-returns/ “Ranked-Choice Voting Gets A Prime-Time Shot Under New York City's Bright Lights” by Domenico Montanaro from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008807504/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-city-mayors-race Washington State's voter registration portal: https://voter.votewa.gov/WhereToVote.aspx Transcript
Missed the Hacks & Wonks consultant roundtable? Never fear! On today's show you'll catch up on the first half of it. Consultants Riall Johnson of Prism Consulting, Michael Charles of Upper Left Strategies, and Heather Weiner join Crystal to discuss the results of the primary elections earlier this month, and what we can expect from the rest of election season. On today's show they discuss the mayoral primary election results, Charter Amendment 29 / Compassion Seattle, and the primary results for City Council Position 9 (City Wide). As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii, Michael Charles at @mikeychuck, Heather Weiner at @hlweiner, and Riall Johnson at @RiallJohnson. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources Watch the entire consultant roundtable here: https://twitter.com/finchfrii/status/1425987129218240517?s=21 “Bruce Harrell, M. Lorena González eye November race after dominating Seattle's mayoral primary” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bruce-harrell-m-lorena-gonzalez-eye-november-race-after-dominating-seattles-mayoral-primary/ “2021 Primary Precinct Results Show Familiar Rich vs. Rent-burdened Battle Lines” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/08/19/2021-primary-precinct-results-show-familiar-rich-vs-rent-burdened-battle-lines/ “The C Is for Crank: Correcting the Record on Compassion Seattle” by Erica C. Barnett at Publicola: https://publicola.com/2021/07/13/the-c-is-for-crank-correcting-the-record-on-compassion-seattle/ “Seattle mayoral race filled with ads, PAC money, and cash” by David Hyde and Gracie Todd at KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-candidates-court-voters-with-campaign-ads-pac-cash-flows-into-seattle-s-mayoral-race “Where This Year's Campaign Money Is Coming From” by Erica C. Barnett from Publicola: https://publicola.com/2021/06/15/where-this-years-campaign-money-is-coming-from/ “Seattle's 2021 primary just set up a ‘battle royale' in November” by Angela King from KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-primary-sets-up-battle-royale-in-november “Nikkita Oliver overtakes Sara Nelson to assume the lead for Seattle City Council #9” by Andrew Villeneuve: https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2021/08/nikkita-oliver-overtakes-sara-nelson-to-assume-the-lead-for-seattle-city-council-9.html Carolyn Bick's coverage of policing for the South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/?s=carolyn+bick Transcript Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm your host Crystal Fincher. On this show, we talk to political hacks and policy wonks, to gather insight into local politics and policy through the lens of those doing the work. And, provide behind the scenes perspectives on politics in our state. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at OfficialHacksAndWonks.com, and in our episode notes. Hello, welcome to the Hacks & Wonks Post-Primary Consultant Round Table. I'm Crystal Fincher, the host of Hacks & Wonks, and a political consultant. And today, I'm thrilled to be joined by three of my favorite political consultants, to break down what happened and last week's primary election. First, I want to introduce Riall Johnson. Hey, Riall, thank you for joining us. Also, Heather Weiner. Hello. And, Michael Charles. So, I just wanted to start off by letting you give a quick synopsis of what you've been doing, what you're working on this cycle, and the types of races that you work on. So, I will start with Riall. Riall Johnson: Hi, thanks for having me. Riall Johnson, manager of Prism Washington. We've work on a lot of progressive campaigns around the region. We had about 16 candidates running this year for office. 12 of them were people of color, 15 of them ended up making it through the primary or didn't have a primary. So, we count those going through. So, hopefully, all 50 of them can win the general, but a lot of, just really focused on helping candidates that usually don't have the institutional support getting that leg up, especially at the beginning of the campaign, to make it to overcome those hurdles, and making more people from the community run for office. Crystal Fincher: Thank you. And, Michael Charles. Michael Charles: Great. My name is Michael Charles. I'm the managing partner of Upper Left Strategies. We have about eight candidates this cycle, which I did 15 before Riall, That's why I don't have any hair anymore. But yeah, we're excited. But we're similar to Riall. We work with progressive folks. We really like challenging the establishment and taking on tough races that people don't expect our folks to win. And we really like to do good job and get out there and win. So, we're excited this cycle, to have a lot of good candidates, countywide and citywide, and we're just excited about the work we're doing. And, thanks for having me here today. Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. And, Heather Weiner. Heather Weiner: I am so honored to be here with you Crystal and also with Riall and Michael, who have just been kicking some serious butt over the last few years, and particularly, in this cycle. In contrast, I'm only working as a consultant with Lorena González. Who's running for mayor in Seattle. And most of the campaigns that I'm working on, are not on the ballot this year. They're mostly issue in legislative campaigns. Crystal Fincher: You said that super, all modest, only working on Lorena González. Basically, if you want to win a ballot initiative, you call Heather Wiener, is basically where we're at. Well-known for so many big progressive wins. So, thrilled to have you along with Riall and Michael Charles here, with Crystal Fincher with Fincher Consulting. I have worked with a lot of candidates. Now, mostly focusing on ballot initiatives and independent expenditures, but I wanted to kick off this conversation, starting off, looking at the Seattle mayoral race. Heather, you just mentioned that you're working with Lorena González, who was one of the two candidates who made it through, along with Bruce Harrell. So, starting off, what do you think of the results? Was this what you were expecting? And? what do you think this says about the voters in Seattle? Heather Weiner: Well, let me give you, first, my spin answer. Oh, yeah. We knew that Lorena was definitely going to be in the top two, and come within two points. That seems totally natural and we just totally thought that that was what's going to happen. Okay. Now, let me give you the real answer. Oh, my God. We were blown away. We knew we were going to be in the top two, but we thought that Bruce Harrell would have a larger lead, at this point, that he would have coalesced some of the Republicans/more conservative elements. And, particularly with the results that we saw in some of the other races, we definitely thought that Lorena would be in the twenties. So, we were very surprised at her great showing there. And, I do have to say a lot of that had to do with name recognition, of course. Also, the amazing amount of support that she got from labor. And also, I think the people who are informed voters in the primary being concerned about, Bruce Harrell, making it through. So, I was very excited. And in fact, I think, made a fool out of myself in the party, some bloggers and reporters reported on somebody running around cheering and making an ass out of herself. And that, I will 100% admit, was me. Crystal Fincher: So, for Michael and Riall, we all saw the public that was done in this. So, I'm sure we all heard about some of the internal cooling from the campaigns that showed a lot of voters, the majority of the voters undecided heading into the final stages of the primary campaign. But, I think it's fair to characterize the polling as showing Bruce and Lorena González in the lead. Bruce, usually, leading those as Heather mentioned, by a wider margin. Then, we saw in the actual results. But, we also saw that Colleen Echohawk seem to have more traction in polling, then resulted in the final election tally that Jessyn Farrell was talking about different stuff. So, what do you think accounts for the polling that we saw and the difference in the results that we got? Michael Charles: I do think that these folks were really independent, or they were undecided at the time, but as I've stated many times on your show, that I think there's two parties in Seattle now, it's the Seattle Times and it's The Stranger. And, those two make up the bulk of voters in Seattle, now. And if you get The Stranger vote, you're going to make up the mind to a lot of those undecided voters that were deciding between Colleen. And I thought that The Stranger actually, devastatingly for Colleen, made a pretty good argument for why you wouldn't want to vote for her. Crystal Fincher: What do you think, Riall? Riall Johnson: Yeah. The Stranger and the times are really big forces in terms of the primary vote and who else gets through. One thing I know is, I worked with Andrew Grant Houston (Ace). We had a lot of people that gave vouchers to Andrew, but they still voted for Lorena. Basically, out of a lot of fear for someone, they feel that Lorena was the person that could beat Bruce. And, it's a valid argument, that you're afraid of giving us some money and then and then voted for someone else, because they didn't probably didn't feel Ace had the name recognition to get to the general. Well, like I said, it's disappointing. And of course, on my end, but also, you see why it happened. And I think what's like other candidates, people always talk about wanting to change and new, but also experiencing new recognition still hold strong in a lot of things. Riall Johnson: And I think that's what Lorena did. She did a great job of wrapping up a lot of the union support, I think coalescing in progressive organizations show that she built a good coalition of progressive establishment support, which I think, really carried her through. And, that's what The Stranger saw. I think Colleen, I was actually, even when we first heard about Colleen, excited about, I think you saw like who was supporting her and the policies. There wasn't really a lot lining a lot with Bruce, I think, which made people fall off in the end, and then when people, primary numbers do look at platforms and they see what that Lorena's platform was more of on progressive side, than they were with Colleen. And I think that's what helped, in the end, probably steer people away from Colleen towards Lorena. Heather Weiner: I really wanted to find out from you two, what you thought about some of the negative messaging that was out there, from people on the right who were sending out, the Seattle is dying type mail. Seattle had enough, was a mail that I saw. Did you think that that would depress votes, do you think that's motivating to voters? What do you think is the interaction with that kind of campaigning? Riall Johnson: It probably depresses you, because voter turnout was low. Way lower than I expected. I was hoping there would be some residual voter turnout increase from the 2020 election, where 75%, 85% of Seattle voted. And now it's down to, 36% right now. Something like that, but we're going to probably crack for you hopefully by the end, maybe. So, it's lower than it was two years ago, I think, it looks like, so far. The Seattle is dying message has been going on for 100, years as we've seen it. It's like, if it's not dead by now, then Seattle is just immortal. And, I think that the whole point is like, people are catching on, that it's just right-wing propaganda to say, like, the fastest growing in the country, is dying. Riall Johnson: And it's just like, if it's dying, how come there's so much economic boom here? The only thing that I'll say is, Seattle is actually choking and it's choking the poor, and it's choking the working-class because people are getting priced out, because the rich here, are thriving so much in this booming the city. And, that's why we see people just... you If anything is dying, it's like, we're getting pushed out because of just the unfair... If anything is the right wing haven. I always joke about Seattle just because there's no income tax, billionaires live here for a reason. They get to crap on poor. I'm not allowed to cussing here, I would. And, the police get to get away with anything they want. It's just like, this is not the progressive city we live in. And I think, that narrative of Seattle dying, it's just more just demonizing homeless and demonizing poor people that make it feel like, people feel just because they see homeless is icky, and they want to just sweep them away with police. One thing that resonate is that, I think- Michael Charles: Yeah. That's what I was going to say too, Riall, around the homelessness. And I think that, this election is so much about homelessness. It's the top issue. Everybody wants to talk about homelessness. And, I think if anything, that messaging drove people to think, who has the vision that's in line with me about how I think homelessness can be solved in the region. And I think that, especially considering that I feel like this electorate is probably the most conservative electorate you'll see every four years, which is post presidential election, primary in a city. It's going to be the most conservative electorate we can see, which I also think speaks to how powerful, or what strong positioning Lorena's in. And, that was literally the most conservative electorate we're going to see. And if she's only two points behind, that really makes me feel like she's connecting, clearly, on some issues with some folks, that otherwise wouldn't feel the same. And if anything, I think that actually helped Lorena in that case, to be honest, where a lot of the people that are tired of this messaging of Seattle's dying or like, I'm just tired of hearing it. So, they're going to vote for somebody that they think, actually, is the opposite of that. And so- Heather Weiner: It's so interesting, because we know we did some polling about public safety issues. Because we saw some of the polling that was coming out of other... I was in the public polling that was talking about, oh, people are really scared. There's a big safety issue going on. People are really scared about crime. And certainly, you would think so, in seeing KIRO, KOMO, Q13, some of the mainstream media coverage of this, but when we actually ask people, "Well, how safe do you feel in your neighborhood?" Heather Weiner: 83% said they felt very safe. So, we feel scared about what's happening somewhere else because that's what we're being told to feel. But, what we see with our own eyes and our own neighborhoods is, yeah, there are people who are living on the street and they are human beings and they are my neighbors, and I feel compassion and empathy to them. And we can also talk about Compassion Seattle. I hope that's on the agenda. Crystal Fincher: It is on the agenda. Heather Weiner: Before I give up the mic, let me just say, shout out to Riall, who helped his candidate max out on vouchers. He was the first one to help his candidate max out on vouchers, in the mayoral campaign, which is mind boggling hard, particularly for a candidate that most people haven't heard of. And then the second thing is, your candidate, Andrew, was so smart. So on-message, so unapologetic about the positions that he was taking. I think he did drive the narrative and drive the message and drive the debate on it. And so, I'm going to be able to say sorry. I'm sorry to not have him at those the upcoming forums. I really enjoyed having him there. I was totally into his headbands. Michael Charles: And, Riall is unquestionable at getting vouchers at this point. I just think everybody needs to know that, that is undoubtedly the case. Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. There is not anyone who is in the same tier, as Riall and Prism, when it comes to voucher game. Extends into regular signature gathering. Just fantastic, incredible job. And you just set a new bar throughout this cycle. The other thing- Michael Charles: When you're making an establishment, you're managing to do something right. Crystal Fincher: Yes. Riall Johnson: They only had a few hearings about it. Crystal Fincher: Change some rules in the middle of the cycle. One thing I wanted to just circle back on a little bit was, talking about the whole Seattle is dying narrative, which clearly didn't carry like people thought it would carry. And I think we've talked about this on the show before, but that is such a narrative. I think people confuse that narrative. I think sometimes, there are some entities when you look at historically like their cost per vote are very bad. A lot of times the more, business focused chamber candidate ask those ies, a lot of times, they're are not the most efficient at driving out votes. Crystal Fincher: And it takes all that money that they throw at candidates, to drag them across the finish line. But that Seattle is dying narrative, does not work in Seattle. And I think, sometimes, people have some blinders on, within Seattle, thinking that that's an effective thing, when really that narrative works for people who are not familiar with Seattle, who don't live in Seattle, who are outside of Seattle. That's where that's gaining traction. But as you mentioned, Heather, that polling matches up with everything that we've seen before. And that, people who live in Seattle, don't feel that. They don't feel that as they're walking through their neighborhood, that they feel like they're in danger. They don't feel like, "Oh, the city that we thought we knew that this was utopia, is now this barren wasteland." And, there's lawlessness and anarchy and seeing the... Heather Weiner: Well, let's be honest. There are a lot more people who are living on the street. And, with people living on the street, we are seeing, we are visually experiencing more trash or seeing people who are suffering more, we're seeing more drug use. And as a result, we all feel very uncomfortable. But, let's go back to what Riall was saying, which is, when you're talking about who's to blame here and what really the problem is, the problem is that, the money that was taken out of housing, out of mental health, out of treatment services back in 2011 by the State Legislature, was never put back into those budgets. And the cities and counties have then been left with the bill. And they are the ones who are now responsible for taking care of people who are being evicted, who can no longer pay the rent because of the recession, for the expansion of substance use disorder, because of trauma. And as a result, who's got to pay? And let me just go here and channel Andrew Grant Houston and say, big corporations are the ones who have got to pay, because they are the ones who are hoarding the wealth. Okay. I'm not running for office. Crystal Fincher: Well, so I guess that, that is an interesting conversation. And looking at some of the other candidates, I guess a couple things. One, it appears that candidates who did favor the Compassion Seattle amendment, got more votes than candidates who did not favor the Compassion Seattle amendment, with the caveat that this is a primary election that we- Michael Charles: But it was only Jessyn and Bruce, right, that really we're in favor of it, right? Crystal Fincher: And Casey Sixkiller. Michael Charles: And Sixkiller. Crystal Fincher: Yeah. Heather Weiner: Oh, yeah. Okay. That's right. That's probably true. Riall Johnson: Colleen was, and then she wasn't. Heather Weiner: And then she wasn't. Michael Charles: Yeah. She's like half. Heather Weiner: Yeah, yeah. Pretty close. Somebody who's listening, do the math. Crystal Fincher: Yeah. It was there, but it was a primary electorate. There is not much messaging about Compassion Seattle. To your point, Heather, we're just getting started with the citywide conversation on Compassion Seattle. And, I think part of the challenge of it, as someone people who listened to Hacks & Wonks are not going to be surprised that I oppose the Compassion Seattle Charter Amendment 29, because it's codifying suites and doesn't do much to actually solve the root problems that cause homelessness. But, the messaging on it, the name, Compassion Seattle, the headlines that you hear on the evening news, it guarantees money to be spent on services and provides a humane, compassionate way to address the problem. Those are all things that people want. And, we haven't really gotten into a wide discussion city-wide or communication to people who don't pay attention to politics that much, on what the details of this actually are, and how might differ from the rhetoric there. So, candidates like Jessyn Farrell and Bruce Harrell, supported it. Do you think that is going to help or hinder them in the general election? Riall Johnson: I think it's going to hinder them. We had to contend with these people on the streets and it was just a horrible initiative there. One night on the streets. And it was just like, they would try to take over terse on where people gathering voters were. Heather experienced it. So, you just use people. The way they did about that, they were just trying to bully their way into this initiative, and then bully in their way on the ballot. And it was really easy to get someone to see the side of things, if you pitched things right... Riall Johnson: Because, that messaging, they would just say, it's going to help the homeless. Anything you can say can help the homeless' assaults objective. And, everyone wants to help the homeless, but the question is, what are they going to do about it? This whole thing about guaranteeing money, we've already been spending money on the homeless. Question is, what we do with it. People keep trying to blame the council for the problems. At this point, I can blame the council for, or get mad at them. But the thing is that, council is only like 20% of power, in the city. The rest of it resides in the mayor. Riall Johnson: And we have had a corporate conservative mayor, for the last three decades. Maybe with the exception of Mike McGinn, he had his issues. With Ed Murray and Jenny Durkan, Tim Burgess and Bruce Harrell, who was also here, the last five mayors, and any before that. It's just been, corporate supported backed mayors, have just done with the corporations, one of them to do with Seattle and always giving police more money, giving corporations whatever they want, and then stripped funding. Even if when they get funding, they just don't spend it on housing or homeless situations. They just spend it on sweeping them, and sweeping money the other way. So it was like, we said we'd put money in it. We've been putting money at the sweeps, not even foreign money, actual housing. And, the mayor is the plane for all that, because council has given the mayor money for this, and mayor just doesn't choose it use it. Riall Johnson: And people need to realize, the power resides in the mayor's office. That's why Andrew ran the first place. He's like, "We can be the most progressive City Council ever. We can be nine out of nine progressive City Council." Well, I think unless the mayor actually does what we ask them to do, which they have the choice not to. And, Durkan has been declining these choices in the county, misusing this money. There's not much a council can really do in the city. And, the thing is, unless they get they can do more to approve both, but we don't have that full progressive council. It's funny how they only try and blame Kshama or Tammy or the three per actual progressive, or the councils, or four progressive... But, they don't have the full power. Lorena has given money and shepherded a lot of bills, just doesn't get spent right. And even to that, I don't want to blame Bruce for everything the council do either, because the council can only do so much. Heather Weiner: Yeah, it's not a weak mayor, government that we have. It's a very strong mayor form of government that we have here. On C29, one of the things that's in the news, I don't know if you guys have seen, is that ACLU and some homelessness advocates and Transit Riders Union just filed a lawsuit yesterday, challenging C29. And, I am a lawyer. I don't play one on TV, but I think they have a good chance. And I don't want to bore your listeners by telling them why they have a good chance, but actually, I think they have a good chance. And, I think it also helps by ACLU, getting their name into the press, talking about how they oppose this, I think that also weakens that unofficial backdoor IE, that the Downtown Seattle Association and the chamber have going, right now. Michael Charles: Well, polling has backed up that people are actually like, when they hear this on the surface, it's actually not a bad idea. And so, it's, I'm worried that with no official... We have a small amount of opposition, but I think Heather's right. I think that there's a good chance this gets through right now. And, without the right information, without people really understanding what's in the bill here, it's a really good chance it's going to pass. People are looking for a plan. People are looking for a vision. People want just something done on homelessness. Heather Weiner: Right. And, if you look at their messaging, it's very much about the council, the council, the council. So, pointing the finger at them. So, yeah, I think C29 is going to be really interesting. I know you guys don't want to talk about Seattle politics the whole time, so I'll be quiet. Riall Johnson: Isn't that what we're here for? Crystal Fincher: Yeah. Heather Weiner: Well, there are, actually, other cities in King County. Crystal Fincher: There are, and we will get to them. Michael Charles: Crystal lives in one of them. Just throwing that out there. Crystal Fincher: I live in one of them, and I'm excited. We had one primary race. And, the candidate shares the same last name with me in Kent, and her results as the local paper record said, she dominated her two opponents. So, pleased with that, but- Michael Charles: With minimal spend, mind you. Crystal Fincher: Minimal spend, that cost per votes. It's pretty impressive. Nice work on that, Michael Charles. But, I do want to just put a bow on Charter BIM at 29. I'm looking forward to that lawsuit. I agree with the panel here, that the anti-campaign has a tough road, just because of the simplicity of the message favoring the pro-campaign. The devil really is in the details, significant devil in the details. But, you have to get to the details. And that's really hard without a concerted communication effort, which takes a lot of resources. And, the pro-campaign, clearly has the resource advantage. Doesn't mean it's impossible. Just means that the work is cut out for the anti-Charter Amendment 29 campaign ahead, but I'm sure they're going to have a lot of eager and talented people willing to put in that work. Riall Johnson: Yeah. All you gotta do is tell people, "He's following the money. Look at who's funding him." Crystal Fincher: Seriously. And, there was a story I think, by Jim Brunner this past week in the Seattle Times, talking about Trump's number one booster in the state giving to both the Bruce Harrell campaign, and the Charter Amendment 29 campaign. Heather Weiner: Yeah. And, Bruce Harrell's IE. Let's make sure to give credit where credit's due. That was Danny Westneat, of all people. Crystal Fincher: It was Danny Westneat. Heather Weiner: Yes. Danny Westneat published that, just when I think I broke up with him. Michael Charles: George Petrie is also one of the people that are fighting the eviction moratorium the most, that wants to end that. So, I would just throw that out there as well. Heather Weiner: Yeah. The landlord. Crystal Fincher: Yeah. I hope to see covered in the general election, the story of campaign spending. It's an undertold story. And so many, especially Seattle campaigns and mayoral campaigns, I think that we have ignored to our detriment, the story of donors. Certainly, during the past two with Durkan and with Ed Murray, their rhetoric said one thing, their donor listed something completely different. Michael Charles: I would add Dow Constantine to that list as well, as somebody who takes money from Amazon and lots of other places as well. Crystal Fincher: It's something I think is a fair question to ask candidates. These are investments for access and policy from businesses, and you just have to ask them, why do they feel it's a good investment in that candidate? What return do they think they're getting? It's fair to ask that, for a lot of different ones. But, I think that one lesson we need to learn in politics is that, it's not that candidates are bought and sold, but organizations, companies know where a candidate stands, and they're giving with an expected result. And usually, that turns out to be correct. When you look at how someone governs, usually, there are no surprises when you look at their donors. That's something that Seattle voters have a history of ignoring. I hope they pay attention this time. And, I hope the media pays attention this time. That story by Danny Westneat, I thought it was excellent. I hope to see more. Heather Weiner: Yeah, don't say that too loud. If he hears you, he's going to write something completely opposite of it. Michael Charles: And shout out to like Erica. Erica Barnett, normally does a really good piece every year. I don't know. I didn't pay attention as close to this year. She did one on the mayor's race or City Council, but she normally does an excellent job on this, every year. Crystal Fincher: She's been on top of it in covering that, in addition with Charter Amendment 29 also. So, PubliCola has been on that. The Urbanist has been doing more coverage of that, and has had a lot of great stories throughout that, in addition to the South Seattle Emerald. So, a hat tip to local Seattle media for being engaged in helping to hold candidates accountable and help to inform voter. Heather Weiner: And to City Hall reporters, it is a thankless job but there's new people coming out. New people, you're sitting on Twitter who are following what's happening in City Hall. And, I really appreciate that, as a thankless job. I want to hear what you guys have to think about council race nine. Crystal Fincher: Yeah. Riall Johnson: So first off, shout out to Carolyn Bick, as well for in South Seattle Emerald. Crystal Fincher: Excellent. Riall Johnson: Council race nine, this is like a lot of hopes and dreams you've been thinking about a little bit, that someone that doesn't have to follow the party establishment framework can actually win. And so, Nikkita getting through the primary gives hope that, we could actually break free of those two party system. And, that's my biggest joy from seeing Nikkita get through. It's just like, not only is that seeing someone from the community that's put in so much work in that leading movements, or imagine, leading protests, showing that and seeing that reflecting the electorate without party support, without party politics. Started their own party, and getting through and leading is just hugely exciting to watch the potential of that. Riall Johnson: It's not the first person, obviously, Shannon did as well, Andrew did as well, but city-wide, was getting that much support. It's a testament to the community organizer that Nikkita is. And of course, I'm really good friends with the campaign manager, Shaun Scott, who's an amazing organizer. He's just knows how to get people without... You see their posts, you see 100 people coming up to campus. Because, they just got excited for that person. And that resonates with voters regardless of party. I think the side of that campaigns has been very contagious. Heather Weiner: I love just to see some of the volunteer art around town. I had my two nieces visiting here from Florida, and all they could talk about was Nikkita. They're both 14 and 16, and they saw the art around town, and they were starting to tell me about this candidate named Nikkita. It was really inspiring and really interesting. I want to hear the T though. Let's say, I'm not involved with either DSA or the People's Party, what is going to happen if we have Nikkita and Shaun, both on the City Council? What do you think will happen? Will they work together? Do you think there's going to be tension? What's happening there? Riall Johnson: I wish I could tell you. I don't know. Michael Charles: Well, obviously, they represent two different things, right? DSA is not the same as People's Party. I feel like there's a big separation in their approach, and how they're going to go. Or, not even DSA, but what is it? What's Shaun's- Riall Johnson: Socialist Alternative. Michael Charles: Socialist Alternative. Yeah. I feel like they're totally different approaches. The way they go about problem solving, is a lot differently. And I say that in the way that, I think Shaun's approach is to throw bombs, right. And I don't know that Nikkita's approach is necessarily to throw bombs, but to speak truth to power. And I think those are two different things. And I know that Shaun's approach is about speaking truth to power, for sure. But, it's through the lens of capitalism versus everything else. And Nikkita's is more around equity, and how are we genuinely pushing equity in government? Michael Charles: Not to throw too much, but I want to step back just from the D9 race itself. And I felt like that was like two things. One thing being, the day after punditry needs to be dead. We need to just stop doing a day after punditry. This is ridiculous. I can't tell you how many posts we read that was like, Nikkita underperformed. Sara Nelson was up by all these numbers. And then, here we are. Nikkita's clearly in the lead. And, it's switched, but secondly, there's no room for middle politics right here. And I think the mayor's race proved that. I think this race was the clearest example of, there's no room for anything, but you got to pick a team at this point. The voters have no room for nuance. You are either on the side, that's going to fight what's going on in this city, or you're cool with everything that's going on. You want more of the same. So, there's just no room for nuance. There's no room for, if they think you're the policy person or that you work for them. That's just not important in these races any longer. It's about, are you on our side or not? And, I think we're really clear. Heather Weiner: No, Michael, you worked for a candidate in this race, right. For Brianna Thomas, who was very much in that lane, and wasn't able to break through both of those. And, I am a huge fan of Brianna Thomas. I voted for Brianna Thomas, and I know she's a friend of the show. Tell me, how it would have been different if either Nikkita or Sara was not in the race. I'm sorry. Am I sounding like I'm trying to host right now? Crystal, feel free to kick me- Crystal Fincher: No, you're fine. This is a conversation. Heather Weiner: All right. Sorry. I'm just really interested. Yeah. Michael Charles: No. The thing is that Brianna has integrity. And, what she needed to do once Nikkita got in the race, was not like, if she wanted to get through, you had to pick a team. And, the fact is, Brianna's also really progressive, has progressive ideas. But if what you were looking for was that, you chose the person that had more history with that lane, that clearly was less intellectual about, explaining, you need to know this about city politics and you need to know this about city politics in order to get things done. And I think voters really with that of like, I don't care about the insider ball game. I just don't care. What I want is people that are going to stand up for these issues. Michael Charles: And I think that for Brianna, it was hard. If Sara Nelson wasn't in the race, Brianna would have gotten through. If Nikkita wasn't in the race, Brianna would have gotten through. Traditionally, we look at Lisa Herbold. We look at Andrew Lewis. She's in the mold of a lot of the candidates or a lot of the current council members of a former staffer. She is what traditionally we have done in Seattle for politics. And so, I just think that it was a repudiation of the idea of more of the same. And they said, we want somebody that's more extreme to get done what we want done. Riall Johnson: Also, I think it came down to name or condition. Nikkita has just been done a lot of work, been on the spotlight, led a lot of things, and people recognize. And also, you don't have DNS on the ballot. So, it was a nonpartisan race. People saw the progressive candidate that voter's pamphlets, all that stuff added up. And Brianna has been just doing a lot of great work for years. And, I hope people come away, recognizing the stuff that she's done behind the scenes. She's been that person behind the scenes, that workforce has just got things done. Like, the minimal wage. Even the very first minimum wage organize the SeaTac one, not just the statewide, but the SeaTac wage. A lot of policies that we are thankful that we pat ourselves on the back for, the progressive policy and City Council, Brianna got done. Riall Johnson: So, I think you've got to give credit where credit's due. And hopefully, I don't think Brianna was done with Seattle, because she's just someone who…When we actually do turn this place into the progressive ****hole that Fox News thinks it is, we're going to need people like Brianna to get things done. So hopefully, we see more of her and her career, one way or another. She's sharp as they come. Hopefully, she's not done with Seattle. Michael Charles: Brianna is not done with Seattle politics. In my opinion, I think that she's going to be an important part moving forward. Heather Weiner: There's so few women of color who were running for office in the City of Seattle, and there's so many who are starting to run now, thanks to the three of you, in all of these other cities, and in King County. But, to have two women of color, running against each other in that race was painful to watch. Right. Because, we want to raise up women of color, as much as we can, everywhere. Crystal Fincher: Go ahead, Michael. Michael Charles: I was just going to say, I think it's good that we have multiple women of color running for office. I'm excited about that. I don't think we have to coalesce around the one or anything ever. Actually, I wish we had four women of color running in every race, always. That would be amazing. We would feel we're doing something right, if that's point. Heather Weiner: And, that's a good point. We had two women of color running in this mayor's race with Lorena and Colleen Echohawk, which was fantastic. Yeah. Michael Charles: And to have two Black women running, is almost even cooler. Crystal Fincher: It's really cool. And I think it impacts the quality of the discourse. I've heard from several journalists who commented on the quality of the policy discussions in that Position 9 race, and the detail of Nikkita's policy, Brianna's policy. I don't know that Sara Nelson brought a lot of detail in policy to the table. But certainly, between Brianna and Nikkita, really talking about, not just a vision, but the plans to get there. I think in the mayoral race, multiple women of color running, and having more nuanced conversations and better conversations, I think that's a positive thing. I'm with Michael on that, I don't think that there can only be one. And I also appreciate it, because we don't have enough women of color running yet, we're still excited when it happens because it happens too infrequently. Crystal Fincher: But, there's this tendency to be like, well, there could only be one who is the true and authentic person of color who can speak for all of the people of color. Right. And, we're definitely not a monolith. We have a lot of different perspectives. And I think the more people of color, women of color, more black women that run, we get to see the richness of how varied we are, how many different perspectives and solutions we can bring to the table. So, I like seeing people run. I wish that we could be able to elect great people, and not have to choose between two, if it would be great if they both could wind up an office? Sure. But when they end up running against each other, is it okay? And, do I think it is necessary? Unfortunately, no. I think that it's good to see those perspectives. And I agree that we have not seen the last of Brianna Thomas, and will be better for it, if she stays engaged. Crystal Fincher: Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks. Our chief audio engineer at KVRU is Maurice Jones Jr. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Lisl Stadler. You can find me on Twitter @finchfrii, spelled F-I-N-C-H-F-R-I-I, and now you can follow Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you get your Podcasts. Just type in Hacks & Wonks into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get our Friday almost live shows and our mid-week show delivered to your Podcast feed. 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Michael Charles is one of the few political consultants of color in Seattle and Washington state. He is the managing partner of Upper Left Strategies, a public affairs and political consulting firm. He guided the successful election campaigns of state Senator Joe Nguyen and King County Council member Girmay Zahilay. On this episode of Chino Y Chicano, he talks about his journey into the white dominated world of political consulting. He also gives us his take on the growing number of candidates entering the race for Seattle mayor.
Today on the show co-host Michael Charles of Upper Left Strategies joins Crystal to go over news of the week, including the need to confront hate and bigotry against our Asian neighbors experienceing racist violence, why it matters when white journalists write inaccurately (and misspell the names of) women of color, the continued marginalization of political consultants of color, and new developments in the Seattle mayoral race. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Michael Charles, at @mikeychuck. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Articles Referenced: Read the article in which a Seattle reporter continues to misspell the name of Hamdi Mohamad here: https://www.postalley.org/2021/03/15/port-elections-changing-dynamics-for-getting-elected/ Get to know more about the Political Consultants of Color Coalition here: https://www.pccc-wa.com/press See Crystal's tweet about a campaign worker of color not being paid for work they've done for a Seattle mayoral candidate: https://twitter.com/finchfrii/status/1372750551952150530 Read about Bruce Harrell's announcement of running for mayor, including his requirement that officers watch the video of George Floyd's death, here: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/03/16/bruce-harrell-stakes-claim-to-center-lane-in-seattle-mayoral-announcement/ Learn more about the Washington Campaign Workers Collective here: https://www.washingtoncwc.com/ Transcript: Crystal Fincher: [00:00:00] Welcome to Hacks and Wonks. I'm your host, Crystal Fincher. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy through the lens of those doing the work with behind the scenes perspectives on politics in our state. Full transcripts, resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today, we're continuing our Friday almost live shows where we review the news of the week with a cohost. Welcome back to the program friend of the show and today's co-host, political consultant and managing partner of Upper Left Strategies. Michael Charles. Michael Charles: [00:00:46] Thanks Crystal. Happy to be here again. As always. Crystal Fincher: [00:00:49] Yes. Always happy to have you here and, you know, share space with you. We have the opportunity to do that in some other spaces and always love it when you're here on the show. So there's a lot that has been happening this week. We will certainly get into it. I just want to start, first and foremost, by acknowledging that our Asian community has literally been under attack. Under continuing attack and it's unacceptable. And as we have talked about with so many other things, we have to confront hate in all of its forms, whether it's jokes or fetishism - people are just - feel like it's fine because of model minority myths. "Model minority myth" and all of that. And all of that is racism. All of that leads to this harm and violence, and we have to call that out in public and in private. We have to confront it in order for it to stop, 'cause it's, it is just unacceptable. So I just wanted to start off and say that unequivocally. And say that also it's not time for anyone else to do any kind of, what-about-ism to, to try and bring other issues or other nuance in this conversation. This is a time to center Asian voices from the AAPI community. Michael Charles: [00:02:13] Especially Asian women. Crystal Fincher: [00:02:14] Yes. Hundred percent. And, and like, that's it. And that's, that's what we need to do. And we just need to listen and support and be an ally. And most people have heard me, right. Or say, ally is a verb. It's about what you do. You know, we can - Michael Charles: [00:02:32] We don't need to see pictures of you at rallies. We don't need to see, you know, none of that helps in these times. Crystal Fincher: [00:02:40] Absolutely. So, so I just wanted to start with that. And that this is about how we react when we are confronted with jokes and attitude, and hate and bigotry, and violence in our own spaces and our lives. With people we know and interact with, that it is our responsibility to confront it wherever we see it, including and especially right now, stepping up for the Asian community to make sure that this is not tolerated anywhere. So I just wanted to start off with that. And then get to a number of things that have happened this week. I guess we can start with an article that was written this week about a couple of Port candidates. And do you want to talk about that a little bit, Michael? Michael Charles: [00:03:26] I mean sure, and full disclosure, both candidates are my - I work with them through the firm and one is actually my, my wife. So I have particularly strong feelings about it, but you know, looking at it from just a, like a pure analytic perspective and thinking deeply about - like I said this to you when we talked earlier - I really, in some ways appreciated the candor because I think that there are a lot of people that feel that way. And it's kind of, you know, I thought the irony in it, I guess, was that same author writes a lot about Trump and the problems with Trump and the Republican Party. And I just think, you know, this is that same type of white, like escapism, where they feel like they're being left behind. And I mean, the lines of "Oh, you know, even this is what the voters want now. They care more about DEI than they care about running the economy," as if the two are, for one, somehow separate. And two, to think that you can spew inaccurate information and somehow that makes you better than somebody else is. Literally the things you're decrying in one hand, and not understanding in another how you're contributing in the same sense and to that, what we'll call it exactly what it is - white supremacy. Crystal Fincher: [00:04:51] It is white supremacy and to be clear, this was written by David Brewster. It was Port elections - changing dynamics for getting elected, which is just really curious. Just a title and a premise. And he basically - his premise is, "Hey, in these races that are not getting top billing, including these Port races that have women of color running for these positions" - who he one, it is always telling how they choose to describe candidates. Do they refer to them by their profession as they do with so many males and white males? These women are not described by their profession, none of their qualifications, their various expertise - they have quite a bit of expertise in several areas - are not mentioned. One is mentioned because in reference to being the daughter of someone else. Another one, it just mentions that she's worked on social justice issues with Pramila Jayapal. So one, we aren't even talking about what their profession is, what their expertise is, what their history is. None of that - always telling. And then went on to say that these races are "now run as an aspect of DEI - diversity-equity-inclusion politics, with voters more likely to vote on youth green causes empowering minorities, than rewarding incumbents for focusing on economic issues, the Port's main business." Michael Charles: [00:06:27] No mention that the Port is doing worse than it's ever done before right now. But you know - we won't go there. Crystal Fincher: [00:06:35] Yes. And that all of those - you can't separate those elements out. If they all work together, if you're choosing what to buy and evaluating it based on its qualifications, and some of the requirements that you are required to consider when you purchase and you buy and you make these decisions and you achieve these goals, include these things, then you have to make sense to include these things. These people, the white people, I have also heard talk about these things and somehow they are not coming up for criticism. And also he has made it very clear that he has not read any of the platforms. He actually made an assumption about Hamdi Mohamed, one of the candidates, and has a stance of hers wrong. And clearly made an assumption that because these were women of color, that they must only be concerned about and are only talking about DEI, which has nothing to do with the Port. And this is a bastardization of what running for election, the quote unquote right way is. And I - Michael Charles: [00:07:40] There's also the part that Toshiko knows about Asian port operations because you know, she's Asian. Crystal Fincher: [00:07:47] Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Trade. She's Asian. And her knowledge of Asian trade - Michael Charles: [00:07:54] But the incumbents know about Asian trade apparently. And she doesn't, you know. So it was interesting to mention one hand that she does and then the other, she doesn't. It's just, you know, it's consistent with the inconsistency of this article. Crystal Fincher: [00:08:09] Yeah, it is a mess.It is very - he thinks he's whispering, but he's yelling. He also got - spelled the name of Hamdi Mohamed incorrectly Hamdi, I mean, it's a phonetic spelling and he - Michael Charles: [00:08:25] It's literally in - it's the only thing in her logo, in case you needed to look it up. It says "Hamdi" - in case you needed to look it up. Crystal Fincher: [00:08:37] Yeah. Yeah, it is - it is something. But I will note he has no problem spelling the name of Peter Steinbrueck - definitely not a phonetic spelling. You know, I challenge people who are not familiar with his name to try and spell that correctly on their first three tries. But somehow her name was too difficult to spell right, or care to even fact check for a former reporter. So that's just that. I just wanted to start with that and just see - say we see it, we hear it, and yes, as you mentioned -we hear this is a dynamic out there. And especially when people of color run, we know that people make assumptions about them that have nothing to do with what they say or who they are. They're more about the person and the perspective and the mindset that they're coming from. So that's this - we see it and just wanted to call it out. And we see this. Michael Charles: [00:09:39] I will say one smart part of the piece that he did engage was that most voters do care about this now because most voters are smart in King County. And yes, that's a good thing for our voters moving forward, so I did appreciate that with a nod. Crystal Fincher: [00:09:56] He was mad about it, but did nail that dynamic and yeah, we do think that's -that's a good thing. Speaking about other things that we saw this week, I wanted to talk a little bit about some things that I heard. We are both - we got together and with a few of our other consultants of color, most of the Black consultants, started the Political Consultants of Color Coalition. We've talked about that before on the show. And a lot of it was because we were being like just literally excluded, despite you know, not even, "Hey, we're - we want a shot. Like we've done that work. We've shown that we can do that work. We're winning those races where we have records as good of, or as good as, or better than the people who were working." It wasn't a matter of merit. It was you know, policies that had the effect of excluding consultants and staff of color. And so that was covered. They wound up saying, "Yeah, actually that is literally what was happening. We will change it in many instances. " And that was great, but these dynamics are are just an example of where we're at in society, and that permeates all spaces, even spaces where people call themselves democratic and progressive and all of that - doesn't make people immune. So, yes. And in fact, the troublesome part is when they use that as cover to say, "No, no. I'm saying all the right things about including BIPOC communities, and centering BIPOC communities, and being inclusive and welcoming and, you know, having a diverse staff. And no, we are totally doing all of that. I'm doing all that - I care. So how dare you say that I have a blind spot or I could be doing better in an area. Or I'm being hypocritical by doing this." That is a dynamic that we've also talked about before. So, I learned - because we do talk and talking is good and useful and helpful. And sharing information among staff or workers or, you know, classes of workers is, is always useful. Talk about pay, talk about salaries. Talk about conditions, talk about all of that. That only helps people to - who are in more marginalized positions to help make that more equitable. So we - we have learned that and we do have a continuing dialogue. And so I learned and ended up tweeting about - in one instance, a City of Seattle mayoral candidate is attempting to stiff a BIPOC consulting firm for work that they did - significant amount of work that they did, great work that they did. And is really trying hard not to pay them. That's not okay. And then I learned of another situation where another City of Seattle mayoral candidate has offered general consultants less money than people in more junior or different roles. And that's not okay. And, you know, you should pay people to scale for what they do in the industry, to scale for, you know, appropriately within your own campaign. And if you can't do that, then maybe you should reevaluate whether you're ready to run, or maybe you should reevaluate how your campaign is structured. And certainly what you need to do is reevaluate all of the rhetoric that you're talking about - equal work for equal pay, and talking about wage theft, and talking about being fair and including BIPOC community - just all of the talk, all of the right words, all the things that they know to say. If you are actually not doing that, don't be surprised if you wind up being called out. And so I just mentioned that - I didn't mention names. I figure that - these are still - what prompted me to mention that I knew that is one, it is appropriate for that to be on the radar - the Political Consultants of Color Coalition, of which I am a member. And so that was one, and these issues have been lingering, have not yet been resolved. And sometimes it can be helpful to say, Hey, you should actually, you know, get this resolved. We are actively interested in making sure this gets resolved quickly. So you can take the initiative and get that done. So people noticed, as they do. And the reaction to that has been very interesting in the responses that we've heard and not heard. And one of the responses that I particularly wanted to address was - a campaign followed up with one of the people I was talking about who recognized themselves in that tweet and it was a conversation that we are used to having as people in spaces who are calling out behavior that is not ideal of people who often have more power and resources. And the response to that, the appropriate response to that is, Hey, you know, I saw this mentioned, and I think this is about us. And I think this was about the situation. We would like to, you know, resolve this. We should have handled it - we can handle this differently. You know, we want to make sure we take care of this and all this kind of stuff. What is not appropriate, but what I know we have both experienced, Michael. And what happened in this was - making the person feel wrong for bringing their bad behavior to light. To be clear, it was me who brought the bad behavior to light. And it was me who tweeted it publicly. And I decided to not share names. But they definitely knew who I was talking about. And my goal is just making sure that people get paid money that they're owed. And that people are treated how they're supposed to be. Michael Charles: [00:16:26] Accountability, right? Like how do we provide any accountability now? Like it seems like Twitter is our - one of our only tools. Crystal Fincher: [00:16:36] Yes. And what was conveyed to this consultant was, Hey, we don't want you to wind up in a position where you can't end up working in your City." We all know what that means. We all have heard that and dealt with that. It's - be careful what you say. Don't cause trouble. That's only gonna make things harder for you, when really the situation is the person who is calling out bad behavior - the bad behavior isn't calling out bad behavior. It's the actual bad behavior. And maybe there was an oversight, maybe there's - there were extra considerations. And that happens. And that's why there weren't names in the tweet. But what also happens is sometimes people just think they can get away with it and they assume that they can operate like that behind the scenes, which we've seen in several circumstances, which is why this isn't new behavior. It's just new that this behavior is getting called out. But that it is important to bring accountability to it, because if we don't, then it just continues to happen. And to have the response be, and I don't know if - I can't say, because it was someone on behalf of the campaign and not the candidate. I can't say that the candidate felt that way, authorized that being saying, but no one should feel comfortable saying something like that. What they should feel comfortable doing is making sure people get paid and do their thing. But not being like, you know, Hey, you should be careful what you call us out for 'cause that might not be cool. And I'm just past the point because I have been in that situation before, and right now I am fortunate enough to not be. And I'm in a position where if they threatened to take something, you know, my business isn't constructed like that. So, you know, if they're going to threaten to continue to not work with me then okay. But that is where the harm is. The harm is in that reaction. We all get called in, and it is how we react to that. And man, that reaction is toxic and I hope that campaigns and people across the board do better. 'Cause this is certainly not an issue limited to current Seattle candidates. It's pretty pervasive, but man, I'm so sick and tired of seeing people mistreated and then treated as if they have done something wrong for sharing that they were mistreated. I don't like it. Michael Charles: [00:19:28] I mean, we see it through all levels of government right now. We're talking about the Cuomo situation. It's about when are we going to be living the values that we all say that we want to? And I think, I mean, that's what we ultimately want when we talk about accountability, right? It's to not be hypocritical, to approach problem solving with the values that we all share and say we share. And I think, you know, it's part of the reason why you think to even do that is that you're asking people to question their own morals and values, and see where do I fall in this and are the actions I'm taking consistent with the morals and values I'm stating publicly? You know, it's I mean, I think about the Cuomo situation and just how we have so many local politicians that deal in the same business and there's the fear of repercussions, the fear of being ostracized or not believed. I mean, I just think about how that type of situation pervades all types of when, when dealing with race in these situations, when you're dealing with anything that pushes the values and morals of a group, like you begin to get pushback. And I think that it's really cool to see us all, at least some of us, getting together as a group and beginning to say, No, you know, we're stronger when we're together. You know, on Twitter, that's part of what - when people call it, you know, the Twitterati or whatever, and, you know, they're scared they get held accountable in this cancel culture or whatnot. And, you know, it feels very similar in Seattle where people are like, Well, I don't want to get yelled at on Twitter. And it's like, well, You won't if you're not doing anything stupid, you know - Crystal Fincher: [00:21:18] Yeah and it usually takes - like, it, it is rare where it is just simply doing something stupid. It's usually you have to double down on the stupid and not listen to people who were like, Hey, Hey, reconsider. They're like, I don't need to reconsider. You re like, you know, and they'll just, they double down on it. And, and there's a lot of people now who - we just had a conversation about, you know, activism for profit - McKesson, the Grammy awards and, and you know, who, what are we doing this all for? Is it to, is it to build our personal brands or are we actually trying to make things better for people. To have people you know, to have less harm happen less often. To, to make the playing field simpler, and to not keep power concentrated in the hands of the few, and opportunities concentrated in the hands of the few, and money concentrated in the hands of the few. To give people a real shot to do what they're qualified to do, to do what they want to do, to actually be judged on merit and to have opportunities not completely eliminated because someone just isn't comfortable with you for a reason they can't pin down. You know,it is that. And so we are all challenged in all of our spaces to say, Okay, is what I'm saying? 'Cause you know, we talk publicly, we are steering campaigns and advocacy, and it is a big deal to say we're doing things and to be consistent with the values that you're talking about. And I've had conversations with candidates and others before - it's like, Hey, you're -you have this in your platform, or you're saying this, meanwhile, like, look at how you're paying someone right now. Or, you know what you're doing here isn't exactly consistent. So that is actually a signal that you need to stop and reevaluate that position. Maybe that's a sign to you that it isn't as simple and straightforward, and this is more of a nuanced issue. And you need to account for that and how you talk about it. Or that, you know, if this is an absolute for you, for everyone else. It has to be an absolute for you too. Otherwise it's not, and it's just a double standard and you will eventually get called out for it. You - we all have to take steps to be consistent, and we're all challenged continually and confronted with circumstances where that's put to a test. It's put to a test with how we treat employees, with how we choose to spend money, and, and, you know, in all of these spaces and circumstances. And, and so we all have to do better. And if you're going to stand up and say, This is what I stand for, and this is what I'm holding - what I'm going to hold the City and the businesses within it, and the people within it accountable for, you can't exempt yourself from that. And we're at a time when it's really cool to talk about supporting BIPOC communities and people are getting a lot of clout and credit for talking about how, you know, like their activist cred and their community cred and all of that kind of stuff. And they are all for fairness and inclusion and equity yet, if you're like really trying hard to stiff a consultant and silence consultants, that's not right. By the way. I'm just going to throw this in here for reasons. Yeah. We also need to have a conversation about the role of NDAs in politics in these situations. We've seen both in corporate America and locally, you know, situations with politicians using that to cover up abuse and harassment, like usually it's just not good. We all need to keep secrets within campaigns. Confidential information is confidential. That doesn't change. That's pretty easy to deal with. But using that just as a tool to silence criticism of your own activity and like really doubling down, because you really have something that you really want not talked about. Maybe the solution is addressing the thing that you don't want talked about. Michael Charles: [00:25:42] That's right. Crystal Fincher: [00:25:45] But that's what's going on - is lots of people are like name names and one, those are not, you know, the people who are in those immediate situations can make the call about whether or not they want to do that. That is not my call to make. I am there to support - to support people and, and we're here to support each other. So that's -that's where that's at. And, and there were lots of questions about that, but, but in general Michael Charles: [00:26:15] That it's just like, it's, there's a bigger systemic problem than just these specific instances. And I think that's what we're really trying to speak to. And you call some of these things out - is it's like, how do we, like, why aren't we thinking about these in the time being, you know, rather than having to react, et cetera. So. Crystal Fincher: [00:26:34] Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And with so many campaigns kicking off and getting started, these are all conversations that are being had. I mean, the other thing that came up - this was a broad ranging, unpleasant conversation evidently 'cause I'm referring to like, the things from the same conversation that were relayed to me, that are just so familiar - was the assumption also that came through and we've talked about this before. We've experienced it so many times that as people In politics, Black people in politics, we can only speak to other Black people or we only speak to ethnic audiences and somehow we are not qualified to speak to white people, which one never seems to apply in the same way to white consultants. But also how - just how deeply ridiculous is that? And if anyone bothered to take five seconds to check and see the races that we have worked on and one, you know, you would think that you would want to go with us in like rural and suburban races because we - Michael Charles: [00:27:40] It always cracks me up because I'm from iowa. You know, I'm like - I lived in Iowa. Why would you not want me to work on rural races? I probably know rural America better than most of you people. Crystal Fincher: [00:27:54] Yeah. That's the thing - working rural but suburbs are my jam. Like I got suburbs - that has worked out. And, you know - Michael Charles: [00:28:07] I do understand it. Crystal Fincher: [00:28:08] Yeah, we actually deal in those areas and especially with challengers, and really having to win messaging fights in those areas more frequently than a lot of other consultants do. So, you know, but this thinking that somehow we can only speak to certain groups or we can't adequately relate to other people is just very revealing and very telling and disappointing and challenging. And that is automatically a limitation that those people are telling you that they're, placing on you and very revealing. It's no mystery why then they're not calling you or saying you aren't quite right. Even though you've won stuff, like just, I dunno, it just doesn't seem like that is the right fit and all of those very vague things that are said that really boiled down to, they just don't feel that we can relate. That we are so different, that we can't understand messaging in different situations when literally that's what we do every day. Michael Charles: [00:29:18] Or you get the, I heard you are hard to work with because you called somebody out for being racist before, you know? Crystal Fincher: [00:29:24] Yeah. Yeah. And the racist person is never the problem. It's the person who had the audacity to say, Hey, that's not okay - the way that you're acting. Yeah, it is, that's all toxic. And I don't like it. And I'm old and tired and in a position - I do think that when we are in spaces and we have. more privilege that we are there to use it to make sure that other people don't have to struggle to the same degree because you know, I, I can't speak for your journey, but I know along my path, I have struggled. I know what that feels like. And other people should not have to go through that. It that's, that's unfair. It is wrong. And this treatment is really harmful. You don't know if someone is struggling to pay their bills when you're just stiffing them and acting like it's just not a big deal. You know, and it is that serious sometimes. I've, I have known people who have been attempting to do this who have you know, been evicted over not being paid and who have like really struggled and suffered. And I've certainly experienced that myself. So I'm just not here for it. And people should know that yes, people are watching and you just can't treat people like that. You just can't. So that's where it's at today. Hopefully those situations are resolved fairly quickly. And hopefully we can talk about issues that matter to people in all of these races, in these various cities and jurisdictions. But how you conduct yourself matters and people are watching and kind of across the board, there is a new culture and zest for accountability that I hope people are prepared for. And I'm looking forward to it. Michael Charles: [00:31:11] Yeah, totally. I agree. I think that that's part of the amazing things with the internet becoming so prominent. I also, you know, to kind of shift gears, but I also think that it's also lessened the impact of endorsements too, which I think is kind of an interesting piece that like these organizational endorsements - things don't matter as much now because we have the internet. We have all these other measures of accountability from which to judge people by. So I don't know, that's kind of a tangent, but. I think we're all like a very similar wrapped in piece of like, this accountability is actually providing better candidates. I actually think there's a lot of ways it's improving democracy in some ways. Crystal Fincher: [00:31:51] I agree. It is. I mean, you know, certainly positives and negatives have resulted from the ways we are able to share information and connect. But one of the dynamics in campaigns is that it is, it does, it can decentralize power. It can distribute power in ways that weren't there before and across the board. You know, you talk about endorsements. Those are really interesting all the time. Because a lot of times there is a, you know, whether it's a board or committee - a really small subset of an organization is driving a lot of the endorsement process. And there has certainly been a long-standing feeling in some spaces in areas that, that some of the endorsements represent the membership. Yeah. And so the members are like, well, how'd that happen? I don't, you know, like I thought this other candidate was the one who was down for workers, like this other candidate used to be one of us. And they're challenging an incumbent. And for some reason we're endorsing an incumbent that like voted against our interests? How does that, and you know, we've both watched this happen where like they will endorse against their members. And endorse people who've not been with them for some reason. And sometimes people really like the proximity to power. But, but it doesn't make sense. And so it has enabled people to be like, okay, but, but for the people who actually care for who is really down for workers or was really down for community or who is principally concerned with who is voting for the right things in the SPOG contract, you know - name the issue that they can vet for themselves what is happening. And they don't need a couple people on a board to signal to them who they should support. More information is more accessible and they can do that for themselves and actually even call their own, you know, endorsing board out. So it's an interesting dynamic. I think it's one that's - that we're going to see throughout this election season. These races are going to be really interesting. And we just saw Jessyn Farrell and Bruce Harrell - Michael Charles: [00:34:19] Wow. I didn't realize those rhymed until right now. Crystal Fincher: [00:34:24] That - look, I just said that and I didn't realize it. Michael Charles: [00:34:31] The week of Harrell and Farrell. Yes. The week of Harrell and Farrell. Crystal Fincher: [00:34:34] Yes. The week of Harrell and Farrell has happened. I certainly found Bruce Harrell's take on how to make communities safer from the SPD interesting. You know, he had mentioned that he would have people - he'd, I want to say it verbatim because I don't want it to sound like I'm mocking him. I want to say exactly what he said accurately. And so, and he had mentioned his first step would be to ask every police officer to watch the video of George Floyd's murder and ask officers to sign a statement saying that inhumane treatment of human beings doesn't fly in Seattle. That's the baseline, he says. That was according to - Natalie Graham was live-tweeting his announcement. I am hoping to hear more details about more concrete accountability and actual policy and institutional and organizational changes. I think at this time, videos and pledges are not going to get it. Michael Charles: [00:35:42] I mean, it's certainly ending climate change, that's for sure. Crystal Fincher: [00:35:48] Michael. I mean, we're going to have a robust con-. I can't even tell,look, this has put me all sideways. We're going to have a robust conversation on, you know, on all of these issues. And, and the one thing I will say, that I am excited about is, is that we're going to hear, like, so often it's hard for people who are not Black, or people who are not people of color, for white people to be like, okay, there are varying opinions among Black people. So often the tendency is to be like, okay, so what is the Black opinion? What is the Asian opinion? Like, you know, what does this community think? And like every other community, like white communities, we don't all share the same opinion as we just saw, right? We don't all hold -we don't all have the same background and experiences. We are not coming from the same place. You know, we, we have different takes on things and I think that conversation is healthy. We are going to have - I'm looking forward to a number of the conversations in the city-wide city council race that includes both Brianna Thomas and Nikkita Oliver. They're, they're both people who have done a ton of good work and I like them both. And they're going to have differing opinions on, on things. And I'm interested to hear that and we need to surface more nuance and real conversation from within communities. Because that, that is a mainstream conversation. People are not aware of it - they should be. And so I'm excited that we're going to hear from a number of Black candidates who don't all agree and, and we're just going to talk about it, and we're going to deal with it as we, as we do. And as we have within the community, but, but to see majority communities and white communities interface with that and, and like experience that, which they don't often get to experience in major metropolitan races. I think that's a positive. A positive thing. Michael Charles: [00:37:53] Yeah. I mean, as long as it's done in respectful ways, you know, I'm just, we've mentioned many times that people can have positive intentions, but their results can not, can oftentimes lead to, you know, negative scenarios. And I, you know, I'm just concerned with people who aren't more in tune with the nuanced conversation. I hope they're able to respectfully engage when there are disagreements. Or, you know, understand that the viewpoints are - they're both coming from Black women, are both coming from people of color or, you know, Native and Black folks. Like I just think there's a whole bunch of different experiences that you need to also consider the source before you begin criticizing the way that - our current political environment usually has allowed for the engagement. That the styles of engagement. So, you know, I'm a little cautious to suggest I'm excited. I, I think that I'm cautiously optimistic. Crystal Fincher: [00:39:04] I -. you know, I think it's going to be ugly, but I think we have to deal with it. I guess I'm just like, well, we're going to have to deal with it. Like this is something they need to engage with. Here we go. And, and that engagement, you know, as we talked about at the beginning of the show, a lot of that engagement will be ugly and not respectful or, or, you know, not coming from a place of good faith or genuine engagement. And we need to see that too. Michael Charles: [00:39:38] Yep. That's true. And so how we started this today, you know, and with that, that piece, the Port article, I think it's important to see that viewpoint because we can't grow unless people are being honest with themselves. Crystal Fincher: [00:39:50] Right. Michael Charles: [00:39:50] With their viewpoint, so - Crystal Fincher: [00:39:52] Yeah. And, and just because you - there is kind of like you talked about, well, you know, how can you say, how can you criticize me for doing this? I criticized Trump. I'm, you know, not doing that. And like, clearly dude, you have some blind spots have to be addressed. Like, why don't we go ahead and correct that name that has still not been corrected. Can we start with that? And like maybe before you assume what someone is talking about, like read their platform, engage with people of color to the same degree and with the same depth that you engage with these white candidates - to start. So that's, I mean, that is, is, we're just going to have an interesting conversation. We're going to have another interesting week. And there is more of a desire to see if people are living consistently with the values that they are espousing. So - and we have a Campaign Workers Coalition and union now. That's a new dynamic, which is exciting. So, so there are people getting together and sharing and supporting each other increasingly in a lot of spaces. We're going to get an Amazon vote pretty soon - results. And so I, I think that is an encouraging, exciting thing that we are seeing - that in spaces that have resisted organization for so long in both overt and direct and indirect ways like us, we aren't a union, but we are acting cooperatively. I think that makes things better for all of us. Michael Charles: [00:41:31] Agreed. Crystal Fincher: [00:41:33] We'll continue down that road. Just want to thank everybody for taking time to listen today to Hacks and Wonks. Today's show - as always a full text transcript of the show is available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the show notes. I wanted to thank Michael Charles, who you can find on Twitter @mikeychuck that's, M I K E Y C H U C K. And I'm on Twitter @finchfrii - that's F I N C H F R I I. You can find Hacks and Wonks wherever you get your podcasts, just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar and subscribe to get our midweek show, and then our Friday almost live show. Of course, you can find more information at officialhacksandwonks.com. So thanks for joining us. Thank you, once again, Michael - have fun with the new baby. Michael Charles: [00:42:21] Thank you! And thank you for living your values Crystal, for doing all the work that you can to do it. So appreciate you. Crystal Fincher: [00:42:29] Appreciate you. And like we're doing a lot of this work together, so appreciate too. Yeah. And we'll talk to you next week. Thanks everyone. Michael Charles: [00:42:39] Sounds great. Thanks you all.
Today on the show co-host (and new dad!) Michael Charles of Upper Left Strategies joins Crystal to discuss the appointment of accused sexual assailant Joe Fain by Republicans to the redistricting commission, what may happen as we jump into mayoral and county council election season, and the kind of leadership Seattle and King County need right now. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Michael Charles, at @mikeychuck. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Articles Referenced: Read about responses to Joe Fain's appointment to the redistricting commission here: https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/02/groups-denounce-selection-joe-fain-redistricting-commission Learn more about the redistricting of Washington State here: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-unlikely-to-gain-congressional-seat-but-2021-redistricting-may-still-bring-drama/ Follow the South Seattle Emerald's coverage of the mayoral race here: https://southseattleemerald.com/?s=mayor Learn how to testify remotely before the legislature, and how to follow bills here: https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/01/how-follow-and-participate-washington-state-legislature Transcript: Crystal Fincher: [00:00:00] Welcome to Hacks and Wonks. I'm your host Crystal Fincher. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on politics in our state. And just a heads up this episode does include discussion of a public figure being accused of sexual assault. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today, we're continuing our Friday almost-live shows where we review the news of the week with a cohost. Welcome back to the program friend of the show and today's co-host political consulting and managing partner of Upper Left Strategies, Michael Charles. Michael Charles: [00:00:53] And brand new father, I might add now. Crystal Fincher: [00:00:56] And brand new father! Congratulations! Michael Charles: [00:00:59] Thank you. It's exciting to be back and get away for a little bit to come share in gossip a little bit with you. Crystal Fincher: [00:01:07] Yes. And I've seen the baby and she is adorable. So yeah. Congratulations. Good job. I'm sure you're short on sleep and all that kind of stuff, but how fun. Michael Charles: [00:01:20] Aw, thank you - Team Girl Dad, enjoying every minute. Crystal Fincher: [00:01:23] Yes. Wonderful. Well, I just wanted to dive in and I guess we will start with one of the big stories we saw this week and, and kind of was surprising to hear it and not surprised to see how the state GOP has acted in the wake of it - but the story that Republicans decided to appoint Joe Fain, ex-Senator of the 47th Legislative District, who lost election in a seat that he was originally presumed to be safe in following allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman several years back. The allegation by all accounts seems very credible and thorough. This was not something that was just heard of right now - she told other people at the time and the recounts of what she said then versus now, you know, completely match up. There is not a reason to doubt her and of course, as we know that women don't come forward - almost never come forward with sexual assault allegations falsely. The percentage of false allegations are so minute. Meanwhile, the number of women who are sexually assaulted, 1 in 6 is the estimate, and the overwhelming majority don't even come forward at all because of the stigma and blowback and social, professional and mental health, and sometimes legal consequences attached to that. So just always doesn't help - to lay that out upfront. But wanted to talk about it in that vein and that these were credible allegations against him that were basically addressed by him being voted out and that you know, for all intents and purposes from Republicans' standpoint - they kind of tanked the investigation and brought that to a close in the Legislature because he was already gone. And so they decided and said, Hey, out of all the names that we had to choose from - Joe Fain is the one that we want to head our redistricting effort. And that was shocking and appalling to so many people across the state, including a number of organizations who wrote public letters condemning the action and asking that he be removed. The other Democrats on the commission have asked that he be removed. And that we don't provide platforms and promote people who have been credibly accused without a full and thorough investigation. What's your take on this, Michael? Michael Charles: [00:04:12] I mean, in short, it feels like it's trolling from the GOP and it feels like a reflection of kind of what's happening on the, you know, the national scale here with Marjorie Taylor Greene and some of this idea of cancel culture, and what role do we have in public life, and who gets canceled and why? And you know, I think seems like it's a weird cross to begin to have your discussion based on, but I feel like it was a move towards politics and not move toward that they thought was best for people. It was a very political decision that led - that's leading to a discussion. There's something about trolling the libs that conservatives get pleasure out of, I honestly feel . And it's unfortunate they don't have the same values and standards in their leadership and they don't hold their leadership to the same standards that we hold ours to. You know, I think it's unfortunate that they chose that path. I think it's really good that we can continue to have these discussions about the values that we hold important to us as a community, as a party, as a region, like we should, we should not want this in our leadership and we should denounce and speak loudly against the party, the interests - that don't find this to be a problem. Crystal Fincher: [00:05:43] Yeah, absolutely. And I also want to, you know, Republicans have clearly invited this, but this is opposition to people being promoted and platformed who have been credibly accused of sexual assault without there being a full investigation and accounting for what happened. That's not partisan - the desire to want that is not partisan. And also a reminder - Joe Fain was known as one of the most, I guess, centrist and bipartisan legislators out there. He had actually enjoyed the endorsement of a number of Democrats in addition to Republicans on a local level. And had worked in a variety of ways, had voted against some of the more egregious social policies. And so, one - suggesting that the opposition against him was solely partisan and Democrats just trying to get rid of a Republican flies in the face of him actually having more Democratic support than almost every other Republican in the state at the time. And that the opposition to him is a reflection of our values collectively as a society. This isn't political - many of the people, including myself , have taken the same stance, whether someone is a Democrat or a Republican accused of sexual assault. That is not okay to just act like that's not a thing and to move on like it's not an issue or a problem. And then as we saw in the articles this week, Republican leadership getting very upset just because they were asked - you know, getting irate and insulting and belligerent in response to reporters inquiring about this. To have the audacity to think that no one was going to notice, care, or follow up - how detached do you have to be? How detached is Republican leadership that they thought it was cool enough to just be like, Oh, they're, they're going to get real mad about this and that was entertaining, as opposed to people being fundamentally offended at how brazenly they seem to be able to disregard the suffering and victimization of women by their own. And even if they want to stand on the side of, Hey, this is an accusation - let's let due process take its course. Then let it take its course and don't move preemptively, or work around the process, or prevent an investigation and then say, Well, no investigation happened - one wasn't warranted and we can move on like it, wasn't a thing that doesn't exist. Real accountability is needed and demanded, and people are not going to be quiet because they feel it's inconvenient or the one person who they felt tolerable was there. And my goodness, what does it say about the quality of people they have available if this was the best they could choose? Which is what they said. They had a long list of names and Joe Fain was who they felt was the best. I don't think that is being heard like they intended it to be heard, but we hear what they're actually saying. And maybe it's kind of in line with what happened with Loren Culp - man, if that's the best you have to offer, you are in trouble. And if Joe Fain is the best you can do in this capacity, they're hurting. Michael Charles: [00:09:17] Yeah, I think you're spot on. It's indicative of a party that's dying. I think we're seeing the early stages of what took place in California in the Democratic.. err.. the Republican party dying essentially and no longer being even a player in statewide issues. So, I mean, we're just watching the same thing where a party that's trying to reflect itself of a national party and the values of a national party that just don't reflect the values of the state and people in our state. And they do, but to such a almost radical extent at this point, it's hard to even take them seriously. Although when it comes to something like redistricting, it's harder to dismiss the importance and the reality of the role that putting those boundaries in place play in representing our communities. So it just shows that we need to rethink a process of redistricting ultimately, too, if we're going to think about how - if we're giving a party that does this kind of things fair shot at determining what our state boundaries look like? I mean, I think that just gives greater credence to the case we should be moving to an even more neutral source of establishing these boundaries. Because if we can just put anybody in there with absolutely no recourse, then I mean, if we haven't noticed anything from the Trump era, it's - we should identify these holes in our democracy and our Constitutions and begin to plug them so that we don't continue to just allow people that don't share our values, the stated values, to make big decisions so that, you know, we're in a once in a decade opportunity here and there's nothing we can do about somebody being in there. I think that that's a - again, a reflection of a system that's broken. Crystal Fincher: [00:11:05] I agree with that and I'm concerned about the re-districting - the redistricting process. You know, it is extremely consequential in the drawing of all of our political boundaries. We hear about terms like gerrymandering and basically drawing boundaries in a way that protects your own folks. And you know, in many cases - in cases that we've seen here, disenfranchises votes that you don't want to count and they do that in a variety of ways. They, you know - and we see it, frankly, right now in South King County. We see it in Yakima County where instead of keeping communities whole, cities whole, and political subdivisions, like cities and counties and different things like that intact - they will divide up these cities and these districts in ways that, you know, include some communities here and excluded there, and they're shaped really weird, and they don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason. And the result is that instead of communities being able to vote together in favor of their interests, they're all split apart into neighboring districts. And instead of being , you know, cohesive in one area, they're split among other areas. So for example, cities of Kent and Renton , Auburn , SeaTac are - Burien - split between several districts. I think Kent has four legislative districts. Renton has several, Burien has several. And so the city of Kent, which I'm very familiar with - a city of over 120,000 people , a large population of people of color, immigrants, Black people, lots of people call it the Kent-ral District because this is where a lot of people have been displaced to, who used to live in the Central District. And, but it is hard to have anyone pay attention to what's going on here - you rarely hear about this area, this economy, the people here, the needs, because they aren't represented by a Senator, a legislator - there's four or five in the districts and the needs get covered up and overshadowed by several other cities, several other agendas. And it just makes it harder for people to organize and advocate for the issues that affect them and their neighbors because they're in effect separated. Michael Charles: [00:13:38] And on top of that, it feels like they - especially in these communities, like you mentioned, that are so diverse, made up of so many different groups of people, communities - they'll make it so that the people of color are there enough so that you can't win without getting some of that white population that may or may not agree with your community at all, but they're dependent upon that population in order to get a representative that even agrees with your interests. And so they're in effect like falsely moderating a lot of these districts that would otherwise be, you know, a lot stronger voices, especially around progressive change that actually impacts the communities that live in these districts, you know? Crystal Fincher: [00:14:22] And so I know I have concerns about these issues being surfaced in the redistricting process and hope that they are, hope that they do follow through on promises to make the process more inclusive. Hopefully, people's comfort with remote technology and remote testimony and outreach now because of the pandemic helps them in reaching out to more people in more locations to get an understanding of how redistricting has impacted them. You know, another example, city of Yakima is not a big city geographically, and in the middle of a very rural area. There is no reason why the city of Yakima needs to be cut in half and one half in one legislative district and another in another half. The only result of that is diluting the power of the vote that people in Yakima have. And when we look at the majority of the population who is Latino or Hispanic in that area and the push to remove and, I guess, destroy the power that they have been working to build - that's one way to do it. And that has been an effect. It makes it harder to advocate for a community, and everyone in that community, and no one should be left behind. And those kinds of tactics that are used to dilute power of people who oftentimes have the least - it's not fair, it's not right, and it has no place in the redistricting process. And it shouldn't be used as a negotiating tool either. This should be a fundamental value that the Democratic party, certainly, and that everyone should stand up for - for the good of democracy and to not allow communities to be separated and torn apart in this redistricting process. Because that's going to continue to have an impact for the next decade and the policy that is passed, and the people that we are able to put into office and whether they reflect us or they don't. Michael Charles: [00:16:35] Agreed. Amazing. Crystal Fincher: [00:16:38] So we will stay tuned to see what continues to happen with redistricting and also keep an eye on ways that people can get involved and make their own voices heard as those come around. I guess we will move on to talking about the state of Seattle elections. We are in an election year. We have had a number of people announce for mayor so far. We've had a couple , I think - I guess I will say one official announcement for a re-election on the council side. But how , starting with the race for mayor, how do you see it shaping up? How do you see the positioning and I guess strength and the case that Lorena González and, you know, coming from the council and other candidates have made so far. Michael Charles: [00:17:30] Yeah, I think we've seen in the past few weeks a couple of the first, what I would call high quality rollouts from some candidates. And I think we saw Colleen Echohawk, and then we saw Lorena González. And I think with those two now in the race, it's kind of beginning to see some lanes kind of take shape and see where people are kind of trying to jockey for position. And it's really interesting to see Lorena come in and kind of, you know , be what I would assume at this point, just due to her experience and position as a statewide - citywide council member, that's been elected twice as the favorite to - currently in the race . You know, Colleen Echohawk had a good rollout for a first time candidate - seemed to be - have a stance that was a little less clear, I guess, as far as policy points, but still strong and having lots of coverage and just like in excitement levels. And so it's kind of cool to see this is the first - the mayor's race that we've seen that has democracy vouchers. And I think that makes this situation unique relative to all the other races we've seen in the past. And it'll be interesting to see what role money plays in this process now that, you know, there's a little more strategy involved around getting direct contact to voters and you know, candidates that maybe traditionally wouldn't have been as strong of contenders now have an opportunity. I'm still interested to see - do we see somebody from the DSA/People's Party/Leftist part of Seattle run? I think that shakes a lot of things up , you know - with rumors of like Bruce Harrell getting in or Tim Burgess. I think that that also begins to kind of shake things up as well. So , one of the interesting observations from the last council races that we saw a couple of years ago was that there wasn't a lot of room in the middle for folks post-primary. And what we saw in the primaries was the most ideological candidates ended up getting through, or perceived ideological candidates, due to endorsements, et cetera. Specifically Stranger versus Seattle Times endorsements - kind of seemed like that was the factor. And so there's only two of those lanes to pick. And so it's somebody kind of making it not as clear what those two moderate candidates, or seemingly moderate, relative to a Tim Burgess or a DSA, or, you know, whatever - Socialist Alternative People's Party candidate. I think that if that gets in, then we, I mean, the dynamics of the race change tremendously and the arithmetic to getting through a primary changes what the race looks like. Crystal Fincher: [00:20:24] Yeah. You know, and that primary math is going to be interesting and does completely depend on who's in the race and how they're trying to position themselves. And what I always find interesting is to look at what candidates say as they're coming in and to see if and how that changes as they continue to run. And see, Okay, maybe I'm not getting as much traction with the supporters and base that I thought when I started. Let me just change my tune a little bit and modify these couple positions and, you know, pick up some support from these other interests that say they're interested and, you know, donating significantly to my campaign. There have - in every Seattle election that I've seen in the past 12 years. It's been a long time. I - there has been at least one candidate who has done that. And, and there often isn't much coverage that - certainly not that people continue to refer to. And so lots of times they get away with that changing of their positions and policies, but it is going to be interesting to see who does that, who is leading , you know, in saying things they actually believe and will be consistent with. And to see what candidates are willing to fight for. I talked about it a little bit in an article this week, but I do think that this whole idea of, you know - a lot of times the candidate for who is supported by the Chamber and those interests, will come in and they'll be talking about, you know, we're going to find consensus and we're going to bring everyone to the table. And we're gonna make sure that we don't move forward unless we have agreement and my feedback to that is consensus is not a policy. And consensus is not a benefit in and of itself. And we have seen two prior mayors, frankly, with Mayor Durkan and Ed Murray before her, who ran hard on this idea of consensus, and being a bridge builder and just someone who can bring people together - as if that was the goal. And as if that is the benefit and that's a virtue - and it seems to be a recipe for inaction based on what we've seen for them. That they are trying to please so many people and to wait for everyone to agree, which just isn't going to happen, that they wind up doing a lot of nothing and contradicting themselves and announcing big plans that aren't really executed and implemented well, because keeping people together and everyone in agreement is a challenging thing to do. So I think - Michael Charles: [00:23:17] Yeah, totally. And we saw some of this with like, just even more recently with Reagan Dunn and his comments on homelessness and the fact this guy is serving on the lived experiences council making policy around how to solve homelessness in the region. And people say, Well, we need to have a Republican at the table. I mean, you ask, Well, how is that productive to helping achieve what we want which is ending homelessness if what they want is in direct competition to the very facts and policy discussions - in direct conflict with that, what is the point to having that? Like, how is moral leadership being exhibited if it's more about having somebody have a seat at the table, rather than it is actually solving the problem at hand? Crystal Fincher: [00:24:03] Exactly. And I think people are so frustrated and so fed up at seeing problems not get solved. Yet, seeing some elected officials acting like, Well, we did get everyone together. Look at this wonderful task force. Look at, you know, all these people smiling in the picture that I have announcing this policy. Or, Oh, we passed a bill, but then don't see that it's implemented correctly. They're tired of seeing people act like things are okay and like they are doing a good job when they are seeing things around them not change one bit. And if anything, just get worse. Someone is going to have to make a case for fixing problems and in a way that people can see and feel in their neighborhood, on their street. They're, you know, as they go to work, to the store and back - that they can see that things are improving meaningfully, not just moving people who don't have homes from one place to another. Or, you know, putting a navigation program in that actually doesn't navigate anyone anywhere. And just seem to have been a way to say I'm doing something without actually doing anything. They, I think, Seattle is ready for someone to make a case for some strong leadership - and not that consensus isn't important, but strong leadership builds a coalition around getting a problem solved and Hey, this is a plan - we are moving towards fixing it. And when people see that you follow through, and that you will move towards getting something done, and that you won't wait for everyone to agree because no one ever will, and actually fixing something - they'll hop on board quickly. And so coalitions are a result of trust and belief in your ability to solve problems. They are not a benefit in and of themselves just to have. Coalitions don't solve problems, coalitions are there to fix problems. And if someone takes that view of it, then I think they will be in a good position to make progress in this race. It'll be interesting to see, but you know, I do want to talk - Michael Charles: [00:26:25] And I think that just on top of just Seattle, I think the whole region - I mean, we're in a unique moment period where I think people are looking to not just Seattle, but really like all their leaders across all - regardless whether they're Democrat, Republican - people just want to get shit done. And it feels like we're - you know, as we've approached the year 10 of the War on Homelessness - you know, the emergency declaration on homelessness and all these things. When does performative become no longer acceptable from our leadership and like really the rubber meets the road? And not that I think anywhere on the West Coast has really particularly done a great job of this. And somehow we're unique in our approaches to these challenges. However, I think we have the people, the energy, the ability to actually solve these big problems if we take the time to find leaders that are willing to build a consensus with people that actually want to achieve something, not just maintaining the status quo or making it - you know, happiness in our region is determined upon the average wealth per person. Like there's just - there's gotta be other determinants we're using and figuring out how do we make life more livable for - especially those that are being left behind. Crystal Fincher: [00:27:43] I completely agree with that. And we have a few minutes left and I actually wanted to talk about the King County Council and politics at the King County level. Those elections are up this year too and there's some real issues that are probably going to be consequential in the election and definitely consequential policy-wise. And for all residents of King County - you just talked about Reagan Dunn and you know, recent issues that he's had and that people have had with his comments. What did happen there? Michael Charles: [00:28:21] Totally. You know, I - so there's just - he's made comments about the way in which we can solve homelessness and taking very conservative approaches of - you know, we should give people bus tickets and send them outta here. And you know, my idea is putting them out on an island and have everybody live together and - you know, just some of these wildly conservative, based out of zero reality kind of proclamations of what simple, you know, answer there is to solving homelessness, rather than taking into consideration all the facts and analysis and reality of the situation at hand. So I think because of that , we're seeing - and I think what's really interesting in King County, especially over the last four years of our tremendous growth - has not only been tremendous growth and incoming of new populations. And - but also just kind of the, the shifting of our suburban, especially, population from being even moderately Republican to Democrat and, you know, moderately Democrat of the huge, tremendous shifts. And so what we're seeing for the first time is areas that have been strongholds for Republicans in King County, at least as far as the district levels go with King County Council, we're seeing these areas begin to shift and be more Democrat. And I think we're going to see for the first time, all three of the seats held by Republicans are likely going to face very strong and realistic challenges to their seats on the council this year. And a lot of that is due to demographics, but a lot of it is due to this - what we're beginning to see - like this nationalized attitude of the GOP of defending Joe Fains. You remember - Kathy Lambert was very vocal in supporting Joe Fain before. Like I just - I think the shift in values and understanding of what the GOP actually stands for - and I think they're all in trouble out on the East King County and South King County. The other member of that being at risk, you know, Pete von Reichbauer who's been in South King County, but served in that position for a really long time. And, you know, from, 'cause I believe it's your district is, you know, you - Crystal Fincher: [00:30:38] Just south - Michael Charles: [00:30:38] Just south of your district, but you know, I mean, you know, that area has seen tremendous change over the past 8-12 years as well. So I think we're seeing the demographics and timing of what could be a tremendous change. Crystal Fincher: [00:30:53] Well, we are going to keep an eye on that and we'll definitely be talking more about that when you're on again. And we're happy that you are a regular co-host who rotates in here. So appreciate the time that you've taken. And we appreciate everyone listening to Hacks and Wonks on KVRU 105.7 FM this Friday, February 12th, 2021. Our chief audio engineer at KVRU is Maurice Jones, Jr. The producer of Hacks and Wonks is Lisl Stadler and our insightful co-host today was Michael Charles, Managing Partner at Upper Left Strategies and new dad. You can find Michael on Twitter @mikeychuck and you can follow his podcast, Cold Brews and Voting Blue on your favorite podcatcher. You can find me on Twitter @finchfrii, and now you can follow Hacks and Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts, just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get our Friday almost-live shows and our mid-week show delivered to your podcast feed. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com. And in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in and we'll talk to you next time.
1 John is a pastoral letter written to believers in the midst of confusion created by false teachers. John writes to reassure God’s people about the reality of Jesus Christ and the way of life found in him. John’s first concern is not to knock down the false teachers but to protect his beloved readers from the destructive lies about their Father. 1 John speaks to us of the profound life of love God has summoned us to, to the absolute centrality of Jesus Christ and how we can have fellowship with God because of Jesus’ death and resurrection. All of this brings us to Christmas. The truth of Christmas is that God has come to have fellowship with us by sending his son and inviting us into the way of life he shares as Trinity: the way of love. At the end of a tiring year, let us reflect on this immovable comfort and anchor for our souls!
The Lounge is a video podcast by musician, screenwriter, director and photographer, Aminah Hughes. In this interview series, Aminah talks to people in the music, film and other creative industries about the essence of their craft and what drives them to do what they do. This first trailer contains some excerpts from the first 5 episodes of Season 1.
Diverse yes, without controversy no! Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang assess the growing Biden Cabinet including the qualified but troubling choice to head the Department of Defense. Plus, the odds of a stimulus deal and the latest on the critical Senate races in Georgia. Former news anchor Tom Glasgow moderates.
“ROOTS REVIVAL” #LiveRadioShow with your host Mitch-Reviving that honest sound from the #RootsoftheEarth Thursday Nights at 7:30 PM EST On Cowboy’s Juke Joint #OnlineRadio Station We SPIN the real stuff!! 1. Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw - “Night of the Hunter” - (2019 LP - The Roads We Ride) 2. Mick Simpson - “Playing the Losing Hand” - (2014 EP - Playing The Losing Hand) 3. Keith Scott Blues - “Topanga Blues” - (2018 LP - Better World Out There) 4. Rob Brooks Band - “Train” - (2018 EP - Rob Brooks Band) 5. MonkeyJunk - “Mother's Crying” - (2011 LP - To Behold) 6. Black Mountain Prophet - “Second Son” - (2013 LP - Notorious Sinner) 7. Too Slim & The Taildraggers - “Think About That” - (2020 LP - The Remedy) 8. RIVER HOUNDS - “Sunshine” - (2018 EP - River Hounds II) 9. Michael Charles - “MC Shuffle” - (2002 Single) 10. Dustin Arbuckle and The Damnations - “Say My Name” - (2020 LP - My Getaway) 11. Robert Jon & the Wreck - “Take Me Higher” - (2019 LP - Take Me Higher) 12. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - “Rock Me” - (2019 LP - Cypress Grove) 13. Robert Connely Farr - “Bad Bad Feeling” - (2020 LP - Country Supper) 14. Mother Merey and the Black Dirt - “In the Fortune” - (2013 LP - Down To The River) 15. Moreland & Arbuckle - Stranger Than Most (2013 LP - 7 Cities) 16. Gorilla Riot - “Bad Son” - (2018 LP - American Honey Vol. 1) 17. Little Boys Blue - “Six Foot Down (feat. Kid Memphis)” - (2018 LP - Hard Blue Space) 18. Black River Delta - “A Buried Man” - (2018 EP - Bottleneck Sessions) 19. The Steel Woods - “All of These Years” - (2019 LP - Old News) 20. Moonlamb Project - “Prison inside me” - (2017 EP - Uchronic Tales) 21. Boxcar Stringband - “Tombstone John” - (2018 LP - Going Down South) 22. Super Vintage - “Brotherhood of Blues” - (2018 LP - Destiny) 23. Empty Bottles - “Swamp Thing” - (2012 LP - Navajo Motel) 24. Cold Blues - “Revolution Winter” - (2020 LP - Cold Blues) 25. Two Timer - “5 Dollars” - (2016 - Lp The Big As$ Beer To Go)
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang head into Thanksgiving with their eyes on Donald Trump's delusional desperation, Joe Biden's accelerating transition to power, future possibilities for Stacey Abrams after the Senate races in Georgia, plus the Trump political impersonator in Washington State and more. Former news anchor and political junkie Tom Glasgow moderates.
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang tackle the challenges facing the Trump blocking, Biden transition and lessons D's need to learn after a mixed bag of election results. Former news anchor Tom Glasgow moderates.
This week Crystal and recurring co-host Michael Charles of Upper Left Strategies go over election results, both nationally and in our state, and talk about why election results rarely come out on election day. Be sure to check out Michael Charles other podcast, Cold Brews and Voting Blue!
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang along with moderator Tom Glasgow, and a live audience talk possible outcomes and certain anxiety with just hours left in Campaign 2020.
Election Day is almost here! Crystal and recurring co-host Michael Charles talk about which races they're excited to watching, what all this early voting may mean, and whether or not the King County Charter will be amended to hold police accountable. Listen to Michael Charles' other podcast, Cold Brews and Voting Blue, on any podcatcher!
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang of Upper Left Strategies and veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow talk about the crucial final week of the Biden-Trump race.
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang breakdown the showdown in Nashville with veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow.
Michael Irvin & Charles Haley sit down at Michael's house for a chat about the state of the Dallas Cowboys. Michael & Charles discuss the recent anonymous player comments(14:30), Charles call out Cowboys players for lack of accountability and self-policing. Hear Charles' unfiltered thoughts on the discontent by Cowboys players, the defense, Dak Prescott's injury, Andy Dalton, why he can't go to team practices anymore, why the coaching staff "sabotaged" him in San Francisco, says Patriots are "cheaters", how addressing his mental health saved his life, a lesson from Bill Walsh, and the passion for his charity Tackle Tomorrow. Michael talks Antonio Brown, Packers/Bucs, Tua's debut, Pats, Steelers, milestones for Mahomes & JJ Watt, and the Mamba Mentality in "Big Deal, No Big Deal". Plus, Batman & Robin swoop in for the "Playmaker of the Week"(01:03:00).
We preview Thursday's final debate, look at two states that could turn from red to blue, a huge Supreme Court ruling that may put Joe Biden in the White House and social media's threat to democracy. That and more with political strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang along with veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow. Grab a cold one and let's get to it!
Australian blues musician Michael Charles has spent 30 years extensively touring the US and Canada, recorded 37 albums and in 2015 was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. The Lounge is a video podcast by musician, screenwriter, director and photographer, Aminah Hughes. In this interview series, Aminah talks to people in the music, film and other creative industries about the essence of their craft and what inspires them to do what they do. Click SUBSCRIBE for more great episodes. Learn more about Aminah at www.aminah.com.au
With the Barrett hearings underway, Joe Biden seeks the right messaging on court packing. Donald Trump's Covidpalooza Tour is back on the road, while Senate Republicans up for re-election keep their distance from the boss. Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang discuss these issues and more with Tom Glasgow.
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang of Upper Left Strategies along with veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow assess the impact of Donald Trump's Covid diagnosis on the election, they’ll review the latest lopsided poll numbers, preview the VP Debate and most importantly, what's the best brew and food while watching Pence vs. Harris?
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang of Upper Left Strategies assess the mess that was the Biden-Trump debate with veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow.
Crystal is joined by returning rotating co-host Michael Charles to discuss this week's triumph of the Seattle City Council over Mayor Durkan's budget veto, and how this year's election is shaking up Washington State politics.
Democratic strategists Michael Charles and Tiffany Chang and veteran broadcaster Tom Glasgow assess Trump's latest threat to democracy, his Supreme Court Nominee and preview the first Biden-Trump debate. Plus, a conversation with a Supreme Court expert on Amy Coney Barrett and her potential impact on Roe and the ACA.
This week, we venture into the weird, weird world of 2004's Alexander. Join us for a discussion of mystery cults, Roxana, eunuchs, Jamie's sincere apology for choosing this movie, Aristotle, and more! Sources: Production and Background: Scott Tobias review: https://film.avclub.com/alexander-1798200224 Rotten Tomatoes Box Office: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alexander BBC Review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/12/14/alexander_review_2004_review.shtml Robin Lane Fox, Making of Alexander, available at https://www.amazon.com/Making-Alexander-Official-Guide-Epic/dp/0951139215 "I Have Let Alexander Down," available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3634344/I-have-let-Alexander-down.html AO Scott Review, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/movies/a-territory-alexander-couldnt-conquer.html Interview with Rosario Dawson, Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a1351/esq0406rosario-152/ Mystery Cults: The Met: Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World, available at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myst/hd_myst.htm Livy, History of Rome, Book 1: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0166%3Abook%3D39%3Achapter%3D14 Albert Henrichs, "Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82 (1978) Plutarch, Alexander, available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D5 Lowell Edmunds, "The Religiosity of Alexander" Eric Csapo, "Riding the Phallus for Dionysus" Phoenix 51, 3-4 (1997) Ross Kraemer, "Ecstasy and Possession: The Attraction of Women to the Cult of Dionysus," Harvard Theological Review 72, 1-2 (1978) Roxane: Cilliers & Retief, "The death of Alexander the Great," Acta Academica 31(3), (1991), 63-76. https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11660/10263/academ_v31_n1_a3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Alexander the Great, In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06d9bkx History of the World in 100 Objects: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00sbryz Worthington, Ian, ed. 2012. Alexander the Great : A Reader. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed July 12, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central. Thomas, Carol G. Alexander the Great in His World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Web. Plutarch, Moralia: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Fortuna_Alexandri*/1.html The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46976-h/46976-h.htm#Page_241 Eunuchs: Pierre Briant, Darius in the Shadow of Alexander. Harvard University Press, 2015. Michael Charles, "The Chiliarchs of Achaemenid Persia," Phoenix 69, 3-4 (2015) Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2008. Walter Stevenson, "The Rise of Eunuchs in Greco-Roman Antiquity," Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, 4 (1995) Aristotle and Barbarians: Sarah Pruitt, "Where Did the Word Barbarian Come From?" Available at https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-barbarian-come-from Mark, Joshua J. "Aristotle." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified May 22, 2019. https://www.ancient.eu/aristotle/. Also, Dictionary of the Social Sciences entry (ed. Craig Calhoun) "These Were History's Deadliest Events," National Geographic, available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/06/graphic-wwii-and-the-100-deadliest-events-in-history-feature/ "The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1 ed.) Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ALSO https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/alexander-great/ "
"Day By Day” Well, that kind of perfectly describes the life of an artist. Because one never knows when they’ll book a series, or sell a painting, or get a gig supporting U2 on a world tour, most artists just take things one day at a time. And that has its challenges, but those challenges are expected—they’re part of the game. What’s not expected are things that happen out of nowhere that have nothing to do with the universe I just described. Like for example, when your union informs you out of nowhere that your benefits and your pension have been severely compromised. In this engaging conversation with actors Arjay Smith (“Perception," "The Day After Tomorrow") and Michael Charles Roman ("Grace and Frankie" "Keeping The Faith”), the two men talk about being blindsided by news that could negatively affect the lives of thousands of working actors. A great chat about booking roles, not booking roles and fighting back, this is a seamless and riveting conversation that gives a rare glimpse into an actor’s life.
This week Crystal is joined by Michael Charles, managing partner of CD Strategic and political consultant extraordinaire to talk about the resignation of Police Chief Carmen Best, and why conservatives in Washington had such a strong showing in the primaries.
Michael Charles, SustainUS COP 25 Delegation Leader; Community Building and Partnerships Coordinator Until the Day We Say All is Beautiful Again, Hailing from the Southwest, Michael has developed a love for the world through many years of exploring Mother Earth’s beauty, respecting her gifts, and interacting with cultures across the globe. He is Diné, from […]
Last week, Crystal Fincher (our fearless host) and Michael Charles were featured in a Crosscut article discussing why the group Political Consultants of Color Coalition was formed - to create more opportunities for consultants of color to work on campaigns in Washington State. In this episode, we dive in to what has been standing in their way, and how they propose fixing it.
Michael Charles 47, wanted to fulfill a fantasy and invited his friend over to have sex with his roommate Michelle. The friend Brian Alden comes over, and successfully completes round 1. Michael asked him to leave after they were done. Brian left and decided he could go another round and came back. He was let in and couldnt perform, and was then asked to leave. Brian became frustrated and started a fight because he couldn't get it up. After the bloody fight was over, Brian was charged with multiple counts. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/prosandcons/support
Hundreds of years before Jesus, the Jewish people were exiled into an unfamiliar land and placed under foreign rule. Out of hopelessness and despair, God used Daniel to remind them, and now us, to place our identity in God alone who reigns over and in every kingdom. Do not fear, but be courageous and live out the wisdom of Christ who is your solid rock.
Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians
Michael Charles is an American Indian scientist from the Navajo Nation pursuing a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University with research interest in bringing ecosystems into the design and decision-making of technical systems while exploring how to use academic research to impact social, political, and ethical issues. Whether it’s through his indigenous background, sports, music, his studies, or his friends, Michael has embraced the power of community throughout his life. It's something that helped him transition from a graduating high school class of 18 to Cornell, and eventually to a PhD program at The Ohio State University. Listen in as Michael chats with his friend and classmate Yasmin Alameddine '16 about balancing extra curriculars with a challenging major, how one of the first languages he heard on campus was Diné (Navajo), and his involvement in AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) and NAICCO (Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio), which led to his participation in the UN Climate Talks. "The first reason I ever even started getting into this work was sitting at my desk in Columbus, Ohio, my first year of my PhD and watching things unfold at Standing Rock . . . there were a lot of people able to be there and long term camp out and show their support for that indigenous community . . . it was really at an international scale of people who were coming and staying at that camp . . . I felt very, not necessarily trapped, but I just couldn’t figure out what my role was as an indigenous person in sustainability, very concerned about climate change and the impacts on our peoples . . . I think I was still trying to figure out what could be my role and how can I make change in this issue." Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly. *The views expressed by Fresh from the Hill hosts and guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Cornell University.
In this episode of BS'ing with Sean K, Sean Kneese talks to Australian stand-up comedian and psychologist Michael Charles. Topics discussed include: the connections between psychology and comedy, self-love, anxiety, punching up vs. punching down, controversial humor, cultural differences between the US and Australia, and more.Michael Charles's website: https://www.mc-psychology.com/
The Sandwich Weekly Podcast Episode 11. Activities and events from Friday, July 19 through Thursday, August 1 Hello again and welcome to the Sandwich Weekly Podcast. This is Episode 11, covering activities and events in and around Sandwich for the period Friday, July 19 through Thursday, August 1. There are many activities and events in the Sandwich Weekly Podcast and I’m always looking for new ways to make it easier for you to find what you’re interested in. If you’re using a podcast player that supports chapter markers such as, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or the Apple Podcast app, you can skip directly to any day in the audio file. This, unfortunately, isn’t a feature that’s available on the podcasts web page. On the podcast web page, you can scroll down the show notes to look for particular days of activities. You can also use the standard search keys (ctrl-f on pc or cmd-f on Mac) to enter your search terms. This week I introduced a new feature that will, hopefully, make the show notes easier to navigate. At the top of the show notes there are shortcuts to go directly to a particular day in the notes. This way you won’t need to scroll down the list to find the day in which you are interested. Here’s the schedule of activities and events for the next two weeks… Friday July 19 Saturday July 20 Monday July 22 Tuesday July 23 Wednesday July 24 Thursday July 25 Friday July 26 Saturday July 27 Sunday July 28 Monday July 29 Tuesday July 30 Wednesday July 31 Thursday August 1 Friday July 19 Science Club - 4–4:45pm Friday at the Sandwich Public Library. Calling all future scientists! Join our brand new Science Club to learn new things, experiment , and have lots of fun!! Ages 7+; registration is required American Legion Fish Fry- 5 to 7:30 pm Friday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. The fish fry includes a choice of catfish or cod, fried or poached, with fries, hush puppies, and a complete salad bar for $9. Carry-outs are available by calling ahead. Saturday July 20 Gentle Yoga 9–10am Saturday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Monday July 22 Gentle Yoga 9–10am Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Walk-In Blood Pressure Clinics - 9–11am Monday at KishHealth Systems Physician Group, 12700 Rt 34 in Plano. A KishHealth System professional will monitor your blood pressure weekly. No appointment is necessary. For information call 815–786–3962 or visit www.kishprograms.org U.F.O. Unfinished Objects 10am - noon on Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Do you have an unfinished craft object? Come join our group for coffee and conversation while working on your project. Real Readers Book Group Monday 12pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. This month’s reading selection is “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter. Blood Drive Save a life, give blood. 1–7pm Monday at the Plano Library. Our library, in conjunction with Heartland Blood Center, is sponsoring a community blood drive. To schedule your donation, please sign up at the library or online at www.versiti.org. Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. All donors will receive a $5 library fine forgiveness coupon and a gift from Heartland as a thank you! Location: Meeting Room. Musical Movie Matinee – Mama Mia! 1–3pm Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. “It’s Showtime!" Come to the library to experience classic and new musicals as a part of our Summer Reading Theme! Light refreshments will be provided. No Registration is required. Cookies and Coloring Monday 2–4pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Features cookies and soft music. Writers Group Monday from 3:30 – 6pm in the Somonauk Public Library. Every Monday you can come join other writers to read and discuss your work. This group meets in the Library Meeting Room. No registration required. Open to adults and high school students. Bilingual Story Time Monday 4–4:45pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Ages 3 and above. No Registration is required. Introduction to MS Word Monday from 6–8pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Space is limited. Please register by coming in or calling the library at 815–498–2440. Genealogy Group- 6:00pm at the Somonauk Public Library, Beginners and experienced welcome. Registration is preferred. Tuesday July 23 Chair Yoga for Seniors Tuesday 10 - 10:30am at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Rowe Readers Tuesday 12pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. This month the group will be reading “Educated” by Tara Westover. Teen Activity- 4:00pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Sign-up is required. Fourth Tuesday Community Fest- Tuesday 4:30 to 6:00pm at the Somonauk Baptist Church. Everyone is invited to the free dinner presented by the Sandwich-Somonauk Ministerial Alliance. Creative Yarns Tuesdays 6pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Bring your hooks and needles for a fun evening of knit and crochet. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own materials. Hamilton and Broadway Musical Theater - Tuesday 6:30pm at the Sandwich Public Library. The Chicago Tribune’s theater critic, Chris Jones, will talk about Chicago’s history of musical theater. This is an adult program and no Registration required. Dog Days of Summer Tuesday 6:30 –7:45pm at the Plano Library. For independent students entering grade 1–9. Stop by beginning 20 minutes before the program starts to get a number to hold your place in line. Come sit with a certified therapy dog for 15 minutes and practice reading aloud. Bring a book along or we can provide one for you. Line Dancing and Lessons Tuesdays 7:00 – 9:00pm at the American Legion Post 395, 510 E. Dearborn in Plano. There’s a $5 donation which benefits a local charity. For information call 630–552–8313. Wednesday July 24 Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities - 10:00am to noon at the Somonauk Public Library. Beverly Dunfrund of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Messy Munchkins – Go Outside and Play! Wednesday10:30 – 11:15 at the Plano Library. Messy Munchkins heads outdoors. We’ll have lots of messy fun, and we mean really messy-like seriously messy. This is a child-directed program. Enjoy as many of the activities as they’d like and stay for as little as 10 minutes or the full 45 minutes. Bring a change of clothes and sunscreen. Rain date is July 31. Gentle Yoga Wednesday 12 - 1pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Bingo - Wednesday 12:30pm at the Somonauk Public Library – Entry is free and there are prizes. Every Wednesday but no Bingo on the last Wednesday of the month. Pre-K Story Time Wednesday 1:30–2:15 pm at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Big Kids Story Time Grades K–2 Wednesday4–4:45 at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required Music in the Park 5–7pm in the Gazebo in downtown Sandwich. Bring your family and a lawn chair every Wednesday from May 29th through August 28th for the returning Music in the Park Summer Concert Series. Tonight you’ll hear Michael Charles. Messy Munchkins – Go Outside and Play! Wednesday 6 – 6:45 at the Plano Library. Messy Munchkins heads outdoors. We’ll have lots of messy fun, and we mean really messy-like seriously messy. This is a child-directed program. Enjoy as many of the activities as they’d like and stay for as little as 10 minutes or the full 45 minutes. Bring a change of clothes and sunscreen. Rain date is July 31. Bingo 6pm every Wednesday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. Wellness Wednesday – DIY Yoga Wednesday 6:30–7:30pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Thursday July 25 Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS)- 9:30 to 11:30am at the Plano Bible Church. Find support and encouragement from other moms. Child care and breakfast are provided. Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities - Thursday 9:30 - 11:30am at the Wildwood Community Center. Beverly Dunfrund of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities- Thursday 9:30 - 11:30am at the Robert W. Rowe Public Library. Jill Hartley of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Chair Yoga for Seniors Thursday 10 - 10:30am at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. KNIT AND CROCHET GROUP Thursday 10am - 12pm at the Plano Library. This informal group works on their own projects, discusses types and colors of yarn, and helps each other with new or tricky patterns. Participants bring their own supplies. No registration required. Location: Board Room. Pre-K Story Time Thursday 3:30–4:15 at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Do-It-Yourself Mini Terrarium - Thursday 5pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Come make a small plant home and learn how to care for it. Open to ages 7 and up. Registration required. Take Off Pounds Sensibly – TOPS – Thursday 5–7pm at the Federated Church in Sandwich. Weigh-in is from 5–6pm and the meeting is from 6–7pm. Get support in reaching you weight loss goals. Teen Movie Night Thursday 6–8pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Last Thursday of every month at we host a Teen Movie Night. Teens are invited to come enjoy a great (or greatly bad) movie, eat popcorn, and have fun. Teens; drop-in program No Registration is required. Friday July 26 Reading Logs are Due A gentle reminder that reading logs are due for the Sandwich Public Library summer reading program. Little Movers - Story and play time for toddlers (12–24 mos) is Friday at 10:30am in the Sandwich Public Library. Bunco is Friday at 1pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. American Legion Fish Fry- Friday 5 to 7:30 pm at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. The fish fry includes a choice of catfish or cod, fried or poached, with fries, hush puppies, and a complete salad bar for $9. Carry-outs are available by calling ahead. Saturday July 27 Gentle Yoga is from 9–10am at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. End of Summer Reading Awards Ceremony Saturday at 1pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Celebrate the end of this year’s Summer Reading Program by joining us for an awards ceremony! The grand prize winners will be announced at 2pm, along with secondary prize winners. Entertainment will include an inflatable obstacle course, cotton candy, water balloons, a dunk tank and more! Sunday July 28 Men’s Breakfast- 7:30 am at the Millbrook United Methodist Church. Each month includes a speaker who presents topics of interest to the community. Monday July 29 Gentle Yoga is from 9–10am at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Walk-In Blood Pressure Clinics - 9–11am Monday at KishHealth Systems Physician Group, 12700 Rt 34 in Plano. A KishHealth System professional will monitor your blood pressure weekly. No appointment is necessary. For information call 815–786–3962 or visit www.kishprograms.org U.F.O. Unfinished Objects 10am - noon on Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Do you have an unfinished craft object? Come join our group for coffee and conversation while working on your project. Musical Movie Matinee Annie will be shown Monday at 1pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Cookies and Coloring 2–4pm Monday at the Somonauk Public Library. Features cookies and soft music. Writers Group Monday from 3:30 – 6pm in the Somonauk Public Library. Every Monday you can come join other writers to read and discuss your work. This group meets in the Library Meeting Room. No registration required. Open to adults and high school students. Movie Sing-A-Long - 5pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Join in on the musical fun as we watch a family film and sing along to the great music. This is open to all ages. No Registration required. Introduction to MS Word Monday from 6–8pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Space is limited. Please register by coming in or calling the library at 815–498–2440. Tuesday July 30 Chair Yoga for Seniors 10 - 10:30am Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Men’s Group- 10:00am at the Somonauk Public Library. Men’s Tuesday Book Club meets at 10am at the Somonauk Public Library to discuss the books chosen monthly by each one of the men. They have read westerns, biographies, and books of historical fiction/nonfiction. A group to stimulate the little gray cells! Pre-K Story Time Tuesday 10:30–11:15pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Johnny K’s 2019 Cruise Night - 5 - 9pm At Johnny K’s in Sandwich. Discounts given to drivers of show cars. Creative Yarns 6pm Tuesdays at the Sandwich Public Library. Bring your hooks and needles for a fun evening of knit and crochet. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own materials. Movie Trivia - Tuesday 6:30pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Movie trivia with a fun prize. Ages 16 and up. No Registration required. Line Dancing and Lessons 7:00 – 9:00pm Tuesdays at the American Legion Post 395, 510 E. Dearborn in Plano. There’s a $5 donation which benefits a local charity. For information call 630–552–8313. Wednesday July 31 Gentle Yoga is from 12–1pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Pre-K Story Time is Wednesday 1:30–2:15pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Big Kids Story Time Grades K through 2 - 4pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Music in the Park 5–7pm in the Gazebo in downtown Sandwich. Tonight you’ll hear Cowboy Upp. Bingo 6pm every Wednesday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. Wellness Wednesday Suicide Prevention 6:30–7:30pm at the Sandwich Public Library. Suicide Prevention with Natasha Clark from Suicide Prevention Services of America Thursday Aug. 1 KNIT AND CROCHET GROUP 10am - 12pm Thursday at the Plano Library. This informal group works on their own projects, discusses types and colors of yarn, and helps each other with new or tricky patterns. Participants bring their own supplies. No registration required. Location: Board Room. Chair Yoga for Seniors 10 - 10:30am Thursday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. STEM Activity 4pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Open to children grades K–5. Registration is required. Movin’ On Cancer Support Group - 5–6pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Take Off Pounds Sensibly – TOPS – 5–7pm at the Federated Church in Sandwich. Weigh-in is from 5–6pm and the meeting is from 6–7pm. Get support in reaching you weight loss goals. Pajama Storytime 6:30–7:10 at the Plano Library - For children to 7 years, with an adult. Geared to children 7 and under, but older siblings may come along. Registration Required. Join us for bedtime stories, songs, rhymes, and movement fun. Come dressed in pajamas and bring a favorite stuffed animal. Helpful Links City of Sandwich Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce Sandwich Public Library District Sandwich Park District Sandwich Opera House Fox Valley Older Adults Sandwich Police Department Sandwich Fire District Event Sponsor Contact Information American Legion Post 729 300 West Si Johnson Drive Sheridan 815–496–2380 City of Sandwich Tourism 144 E. Railroad Street Sandwich 815–786–9321 https://tourismcityofsandwich.com/ Cornerstone Church 17437 Pratt Road, Sandwich 815–786–6300 Federated Church 403 N. Main St., Sandwich 815–498–4592 Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities 815–539–9673, 815–539–7700, or 800–535–5970 Johnny K’s 125 Duvick Ave, Sandwich 815–786–3088 Millbrook United Methodist Church 8360 Fox River Rd. Millbrook 815–786–4106 Plano Bible Church 1111 West South Street, Plano 630–552–8877 www.PlanoBibleChurch.org Plano Community Library District 15 W. North Street, Plano 630–552–2009 www.planolibrary.info Robert W. Rowe Public Library 120 East Si Johnson Ave., Sheridan 815–496–2031 www.rwrlibrary.org Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce 128 E. Railroad St P.O. Box 214, Sandwich 815–786–9075 https://sandwich-il.org Sandwich Public Library 925 South Main Street, Sandwich 815–786–8308 www.sandwichpld.org Somonauk Baptist Church 315 East North St., Somonauk 815–498–2312 Somonauk Public Library 700 East LaSalle Street, Somonauk 815–498–2440 https://www.somonauklibrary.org/ St. John’s Lutheran Church 235 Green St., Somonauk 815–498–1001
The Sandwich Weekly Podcast Episode 10. Activities and events from Friday July 12 through Thursday July 25 Hello again and welcome to the Sandwich Weekly Podcast. This is Episode 10, covering activities and events in and around Sandwich for the period Friday July 12 through Thursday July 25. There are many activities and events in the Sandwich Weekly Podcast and I’m always looking for new ways to make it easier for you to find what you’re interested in. If you’re using a podcast player that supports chapter markers such as, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or the Apple Podcast app, you can skip directly to any day in the audio file. This, unfortunately, isn’t a feature that’s available on the podcasts web page. On the podcast web page you can scroll down the show notes to look for particular days of activities. You can also use the standard search keys (ctrl-f on pc or cmd-f on Mac) to enter your search terms. This week I introduced a new feature that will, hopefully, make the show notes easier to navigate. At the top of the show notes there are shortcuts to go directly to a particular day in the notes. This way you won’t need to scroll down the list to find the day in which you are interested. Here’s the schedule of activities and events for the next two weeks… Friday July 12 Saturday July 13 Sunday July14 Monday July 15 Tuesday July 16 Wednesday July 17 Thursday July 18 Friday July 19 Saturday July 20 Monday July 22 Tuesday July 23 Wednesday July 24 Thursday July 25 Friday July 12 Computer Class – Computer Basics - 10:30 – noon, Friday at the Sandwich Public Library. Are you feeling lost in the digital age? Sign up for a computer class! Each class has five spots. Computers will be provided, but you may bring your own. Class costs $10 to participate. Registration is required. Payment is due at time of registration and must be made in person. Cash/Check only. Checks payable to Sandwich Public Library District. Little Movers - Story and play time for toddlers is at 10:30am Friday at the Sandwich Public Library. American Legion Fish Fry - 5 to 7:30 pm Friday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. The fish fry includes a choice of catfish or cod, fried or poached, with fries, hush puppies, and a complete salad bar for $9. Carry-outs are available by calling ahead. Saturday July 13 Gentle Yoga - 9–10am Saturday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Computer Class – Introduction to Google Slides - 10:30 – noon Saturday at the Sandwich Public Library. Looking to learn Google slides (a free replacement for Microsoft PowerPoint). Each class has five spots. Computers will be provided, but you may bring your own. Class costs $10 to participate. Registration is required 48 hours in advance. Payment is due at time of registration and must be made in person. Cash/Check only. Checks payable to Sandwich Public Library District. Let’s Make Music - 1pm Saturday at the Sandwich Public Library. Love music? Come make a musical instrument and then jam out! Open to ages 5 and up. Registration required. Sunday July 14 Sunday at Sandwich - Antique Flea Market is 8am–4pm Sunday at the Sandwich Fairgrounds. Admission is $5, children 12 and under are free. Parking is free and an ATM is available. No pets please. For more information visit the website, www.sundayatsandwichantiques.com Monday July15 Gentle Yoga - 9–10am Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Walk-In Blood Pressure Clinics - 9–11am Monday at KishHealth Systems Physician Group, 12700 Rt 34 in Plano. A KishHealth System professional will monitor your blood pressure weekly. No appointment is necessary. For information call 815–786–3962 or visit www.kishprograms.org U.F.O. Unfinished Objects - 10am – noon on Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Do you have an unfinished craft object? Come join our group for coffee and conversation while working on your project. Hopekeepers - 10:00 to 11:30am Monday at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Somonauk. A support group for people coping with chronic illness or pain, to find encouragement in a small group, non-denominational, Christian environment. Art Therapy - 10:30–11:30am Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. De-stress & relax by enjoying a hour filled with relaxing music, camaraderie, and a varying art styles. Be free with what you create, there are no themed projects, just themed supplies. Independent Story Time FOR 3’S, 4’S, & 5’S - 10:30–11:10am Monday at the Plano Library. For independent 3–5 year-olds, without an adult. Features simple stories, music, movement activities, and a simple craft. Parents must remain in the Kids’ Library during the program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Musical Movie Matinee - Oklahoma! - will be shown Monday at 1:00–3:00pm at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Teen Movies – The House with a Clock in its Walls - will be shown on Monday from 1 – 2:45pm at the Plano Library. This movie is rated PG and is targeted toward teens. Light refreshments will be served. Independent Story Time FOR 3’S, 4’S, & 5’S - 1:00 - 1:40pm Monday at the Plano Library. For independent 3–5 year-olds, without an adult. Features simple stories, music, movement activities, and a simple craft. Parents must remain in the Kids’ Library during the program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Cookies and Coloring - 2–4pm Monday at the Somonauk Public Library. Features cookies and soft music. Creative Club - 4–5pm Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. If you like being artsy, then come get creative at our Creative Club. Ages 7+ Registration is required Magic Show with Strawberri the Clown - 6pm Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. Strawberri the clown is coming to the Sandwich Library to put on a fun magic show. Open to all ages. Registration is required. Me and My Grown-Up Story time - 6:30–7:30pm Monday at the Plano Library. For 3 and 4 year-olds with their grown-up (no younger sibling allowed). This transitional Story time is perfect for the little one who’s not ready for independent Story time. Grown-ups will stay in the room and actively participate in the program with their child. Features simple stories, rhymes, movement activities, songs, and art experiences. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Tuesday July 16 Sock Knitting Group - 9:30am to noon Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Public Library in Sheridan. Chair Yoga for Seniors - 10 - 10:30am Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Pre-K Story Time - 10:30–11:15 am Tuesday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Me and My Grown-Up Story time - 10:30–11:30 Tuesday at the Plano Library. For 3 and 4 year-olds with their grown-up (no younger sibling allowed). This transitional Story time is perfect for the little one who’s not ready for independent Story time. Grown-ups will stay in the room and actively participate in the program with their child. Features simple stories, rhymes, movement activities, songs, and art experiences. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Cornerstone Church Food Pantry - 12:30pm Tuesday at Cornerstone Church at 17347 Pratt Rd. in Sandwich. Cornerstone provides food for families in Sandwich, Somonauk, Plano, and Sheridan. Identification and proof of residency, such as a utility bill, are required.. Afternoon Movie - 1:00pm Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Public Library, Sheridan. This month’s movie selection is “Some Like It Hot“. This classic comedy movie stars Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. This movie is suggested for adult audiences. Independent Story Time for 4’s and 5’s - 1:00–1:40pm Tuesday at the Plano Library. For independent 4 and 5 year-olds only, without an adult. Features longer stories, activities, music, and a craft. Parents must remain in the Kids’ Library during the program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Johnny K’s 2019 Cruise Night - 5 - 9pm Tuesday At Johnny K’s in Sandwich. Discounts given to drivers of show cars. Creative Yarns - 6pm Tuesdays at the Sandwich Public Library. Bring your hooks and needles for a fun evening of knit and crochet. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own materials. George Burns Alive Again and in Concert - 6:30–7:00pm Tuesday at the Sandwich Public Library. Everyone loves George Burns! Join Broadway and film actor Duffy Hudson as he takes you on a stroll along nostalgia lane. George Burns sings, dances and tells stories like only George Burns can. This one-man, musical comedy performance of our beloved George Burns is sure to delight the entire family!!! This is an adult program and no Registration required. Off to the Races - 6:30 – 7:15pm Tuesday at the Plano library. Drag racing comes to the library. You’ll race a Matchbox or Hot Wheels car down our track. Bring your own cars or use ours. Independent Story Time for 4’s and 5’s - 6:30 - 7:10pm Tuesday at the Plano Library. For independent 4 and 5 year-olds only, without an adult. Features longer stories, activities, music, and a craft. Parents must remain in the Kids’ Library during the program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Line Dancing and Lessons - 7:00 – 9:00pm Tuesdays at the American Legion Post 395, 510 E. Dearborn in Plano. There’s a $5 donation which benefits a local charity. For information call 630–552–8313. Wednesday July 17 Rhyme Time - 10:30–11am Wednesday at the Plano Library. For babies to age 3 accompanied by an adult. This lap sit Story time features action rhymes, finger plays, songs, movement activities, a simple story, and a parent-child reading time. Active adult participation is an integral part of this program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Rhyme Time - 11:15–11:45am Wednesday at the Plano Library. For babies to age 3 accompanied by an adult. This lap sit Story time features action rhymes, finger plays, songs, movement activities, a simple story, and a parent-child reading time. Active adult participation is an integral part of this program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Gentle Yoga - 12 - 1pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Bingo - 12:30pm Wednesday at the Somonauk Public Library – Entry is free and there are prizes. Every Wednesday but no Bingo on the last Wednesday of the month. Readers’ Haven Book Club - 1–2pm Tuesday at the Sandwich Public Library. Come enjoy a lively book discussion! Copies of the club books are available in regular, large print, and audio formats to everyone. Pick up your copy at the circulation desk today! Registration is encouraged, but not required. Pre-K Story Time - 1:30–2:15 pm Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Big Kids Story Time - Grades K–2 4–4:45 Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Music in the Park - 5–7pm Wednesday in the Gazebo in downtown Sandwich. Bring your family and a lawn chair every Wednesday from May 29th through August 28th for the returning Music in the Park Summer Concert Series. Tonight you’ll enjoy Redhorse. Rhyme Time - 6:00–6:30pm Wednesday at the Plano Library. For babies to age 3 accompanied by an adult. This lap sit Story time features action rhymes, finger plays, songs, movement activities, a simple story, and a parent-child reading time. Active adult participation is an integral part of this program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Bingo - 6pm Wednesday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. Wellness Wednesday – Ageless Grace with professional Cecilia Carruthers 6:30–7:30 Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. Ageless Grace is a Brain Health Fitness program. There’s an $8 fee and Registration is required. Wednesday Night Book Group - 7 – 8 pm Wednesday at the Plano Library. The book for July, “The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” by Jonas Jonasson, will be discussed. The book for August, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaimen, will be available at the Check-Out Desk. This group reads a variety of genres. New members are welcome any time. Thursday July 18 Knit and Crochet Group - 10am - 12pm Thursday at the Plano Library. This informal group works on their own projects, discusses types and colors of yarn, and helps each other with new or tricky patterns. Participants bring their own supplies. No registration required. Location: Board Room. Chair Yoga for Seniors - 10 - 10:30am Thursday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Rhyme Time - 10:30–11am Thursday at the Plano Library. For babies to age 3 accompanied by an adult. This lap sit Story time features action rhymes, finger plays, songs, movement activities, a simple story, and a parent-child reading time. Active adult participation is an integral part of this program. Registration Required. Call 630–552–2025 or stop by the Kids’ Library Desk to register. Free Movies for Kids - 1 - 2:50pm Thursday at the Plano Library. Hotel Transylvania, Rated PG. Open to all ages; children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Attendance is limited to the first 80 people. Free snacks and drinks will be served. Chess Club - 1–2pm Thursday at the Sandwich Public Library. Use one our chess boards or bring your own. Drop-In Job Search and Resume Help - 2:30 – 4:30 Thursday at the Plano Library. An Illinois WorkNet representative will be available to answer your job search questions and provide resume assistance. Location: Study Room B. Pre-K Story Time - 3:30–4:15 Thursday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. STEM Activity - 4pm Thursday at the Somonauk Public Library. Open to children grades K–5. Registration is required. Take Off Pounds Sensibly – TOPS – 5–7pm Thursday at the Federated Church in Sandwich. Weigh-in is from 5–6pm and the meeting is from 6–7pm. Get support in reaching you weight loss goals. Anime Art Night - 6–8pm Thursday at the Sandwich Public Library. If you love Anime, snacks, and friends, then our Anime Club is the place for you! We meet monthly, watch an Anime film, and have fun. This is a teen program and No Registration required. Wright Brothers, Wrong Story - 6:30pm Thursday at the Somonauk Public Library. No Registration is required. Friday July 19 Science Club - 4–4:45pm Friday at the Sandwich Public Library. Calling all future scientists! Join our brand new Science Club to learn new things, experiment , and have lots of fun!! Ages 7+; registration is required American Legion Fish Fry- 5 to 7:30 pm Friday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. The fish fry includes a choice of catfish or cod, fried or poached, with fries, hush puppies, and a complete salad bar for $9. Carry-outs are available by calling ahead. Saturday July 20 Gentle Yoga 9–10am Saturday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Monday July 22 Gentle Yoga 9–10am Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Walk-In Blood Pressure Clinics - 9–11am Monday at KishHealth Systems Physician Group, 12700 Rt 34 in Plano. A KishHealth System professional will monitor your blood pressure weekly. No appointment is necessary. For information call 815–786–3962 or visit www.kishprograms.org U.F.O. Unfinished Objects 10am - noon on Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Do you have an unfinished craft object? Come join our group for coffee and conversation while working on your project. Real Readers 12pm Monday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. This month’s reading selection is “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter. Blood Drive Save a life, give blood. 1–7pm Monday at the Plano Library. Our library, in conjunction with Heartland Blood Center, is sponsoring a community blood drive. To schedule your donation, please sign up at the library or online at www.versiti.org. Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. All donors will receive a $5 library fine forgiveness coupon and a gift from Heartland as a thank you! Location: Meeting Room. Musical Movie Matinee – Mama Mia! 1–3pm Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. “It’s Showtime!" Come to the library to experience classic and new musicals as a part of our Summer Reading Theme! Light refreshments will be provided. No Registration is required. Cookies and Coloring 2–4pm Monday at the Somonauk Public Library. Features cookies and soft music. Bilingual Story Time 4–4:45pm Monday at the Sandwich Public Library. Ages 3 and above. No Registration is required. Introduction to MS Word Monday from 6–8pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Space is limited. Please register by coming in or calling the library at 815–498–2440. Genealogy Group- 6:00pm at the Somonauk Public Library, Beginners and experienced welcome. Registration is preferred. Tuesday July 23 Chair Yoga for Seniors 10 - 10:30am Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Rowe Readers 12pm Tuesday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. This month the group will be reading “Educated” by Tara Westover. Teen Activity- 4:00pm at the Somonauk Public Library. Sign-up is required. Fourth Tuesday Community Fest- 4:30 to 6:00pm at the Somonauk Baptist Church. Everyone is invited to the free dinner presented by the Sandwich-Somonauk Ministerial Alliance. Creative Yarns 6pm Tuesdays at the Sandwich Public Library. Bring your hooks and needles for a fun evening of knit and crochet. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own materials. Hamilton and Broadway Musicals - 6:30pm at the Sandwich Public Library. The Chicago Tribune’s theater critic, Chris Jones, will talk about Chicago’s history of musical theater. This is an adult program and no Registration required. Dog Days of Summer 6:30 –7:45pm Tuesday at the Plano Library. For independent students entering grade 1–9. Stop by beginning 20 minutes before the program starts to get a number to hold your place in line. Come sit with a certified therapy dog for 15 minutes and practice reading aloud. Bring a book along or we can provide one for you. Line Dancing and Lessons 7:00 – 9:00pm Tuesdays at the American Legion Post 395, 510 E. Dearborn in Plano. There’s a $5 donation which benefits a local charity. For information call 630–552–8313. Wednesday July 24 Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities - 10:00am to noon at the Somonauk Public Library. Beverly Dunfrund of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Messy Munchkins – Go Outside and Play! 10:30 – 11:15 Wednesday at the Plano Library. Messy Munchkins heads outdoors. We’ll have lots of messy fun, and we mean really messy-like seriously messy. This is a child-directed program. Enjoy as many of the activities as they’d like and stay for as little as 10 minutes or the full 45 minutes. Bring a change of clothes and sunscreen. Rain date is July 31. Gentle Yoga 12 - 1pm at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. Bingo - 12:30pm Wednesday at the Somonauk Public Library – Entry is free and there are prizes. Every Wednesday but no Bingo on the last Wednesday of the month. Pre-K Story Time 1:30–2:15 pm Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Big Kids Story Time Grades K–2 4–4:45 Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required Music in the Park 5–7pm in the Gazebo in downtown Sandwich. Bring your family and a lawn chair every Wednesday from May 29th through August 28th for the returning Music in the Park Summer Concert Series. Tonight you’ll hear Michael Charles. Messy Munchkins – Go Outside and Play! 6 – 6:45 Wednesday at the Plano Library. Messy Munchkins heads outdoors. We’ll have lots of messy fun, and we mean really messy-like seriously messy. This is a child-directed program. Enjoy as many of the activities as they’d like and stay for as little as 10 minutes or the full 45 minutes. Bring a change of clothes and sunscreen. Rain date is July 31. Bingo 6pm every Wednesday at the Sheridan American Legion Post 729. Wellness Wednesday – DIY Yoga 6:30–7:30pm Wednesday at the Sandwich Public Library. Thursday July 25 Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS)- 9:30 to 11:30am at the Plano Bible Church. Find support and encouragement from other moms. Child care and breakfast are provided. Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities - 9:30 - 11:30am Thursday at the Wildwood Community Center. Beverly Dunfrund of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities- 9:30 - 11:30am Thursday at the Robert W. Rowe Public Library. Jill Hartley of Mendota Area Senior Services will help anyone older than 60, or younger than 60 with a disability, to obtain access to services, apply to programs, or gather information. No appointment is necessary. Chair Yoga for Seniors 10 - 10:30am Thursday at the Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan. KNIT AND CROCHET GROUP 10am - 12pm Thursday at the Plano Library. This informal group works on their own projects, discusses types and colors of yarn, and helps each other with new or tricky patterns. Participants bring their own supplies. No registration required. Location: Board Room. Pre-K Story Time 3:30–4:15 Thursday at the Sandwich Public Library. No Registration is required. Do-It-Yourself Mini Terrarium - 5pm Thursday at the Sandwich Public Library. Come make a small plant home and learn how to care for it. Open to ages 7 and up. Registration required. Take Off Pounds Sensibly – TOPS – 5–7pm Thursday at the Federated Church in Sandwich. Weigh-in is from 5–6pm and the meeting is from 6–7pm. Get support in reaching you weight loss goals. Helpful Links City of Sandwich Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce Sandwich Public Library District Sandwich Park District Sandwich Opera House Fox Valley Older Adults Sandwich Police Department Sandwich Fire District Event Sponsor Contact Information American Legion Post 729 300 West Si Johnson Drive Sheridan 815–496–2380 City of Sandwich Tourism 144 E. Railroad Street Sandwich 815–786–9321 https://tourismcityofsandwich.com/ Cornerstone Church 17437 Pratt Road, Sandwich 815–786–6300 Federated Church 403 N. Main St., Sandwich 815–498–4592 Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities 815–539–9673, 815–539–7700, or 800–535–5970 Johnny K’s 125 Duvick Ave, Sandwich 815–786–3088 Millbrook United Methodist Church 8360 Fox River Rd. Millbrook 815–786–4106 Plano Bible Church 1111 West South Street, Plano 630–552–8877 www.PlanoBibleChurch.org Plano Community Library District 15 W. North Street, Plano 630–552–2009 www.planolibrary.info Robert W. Rowe Public Library 120 East Si Johnson Ave., Sheridan 815–496–2031 www.rwrlibrary.org Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce 128 E. Railroad St P.O. Box 214, Sandwich 815–786–9075 https://sandwich-il.org Sandwich Public Library 925 South Main Street, Sandwich 815–786–8308 www.sandwichpld.org Somonauk Baptist Church 315 East North St., Somonauk 815–498–2312 Somonauk Public Library 700 East LaSalle Street, Somonauk 815–498–2440 https://www.somonauklibrary.org/ St. John’s Lutheran Church 235 Green St., Somonauk 815–498–1001
The golden thread that holds the whole Bible together, the central message that makes sense of all the details, is this: God has promised. Faith (in the Biblical sense) is not just believing the information the Bible contains. Faith is believing God’s promise.
Michael Charles considers how the reality of the resurrection overturned the life of Paul and can overturn any life when someone encounters the living Christ.
Sessions from Studio A- Michael Charles
In this Agile Camp episode we speak with an Agile Camper attendee Michael Charles and PMI Long Island member. Michael spoke about the benefits of attending and power networking.
The guys are joined this week by DBG VIP The Rockin' Donkey for a Y&T Discussion. Formed in 1973 in Oakland, California, Y&T were originally known as Yesterday and Today. After two good, but poorly received, albums for London Records the band, featuring singer/guitarist Dave Meneketti, guitarist Joey Alves, bassist Phil Kennemore, and drummer Leonard Haze, were signed to A&M Records. 1981's Earthshaker would kick off the newly re-branded Y&T and launch a trilogy of albums that formed the backbone of their concert set list and solidified their fan base. Rounding out that trilogy were 1982's Black Tiger and 1983's Mean Streak. While these albums had moderate success, the higher positions of the Billboard charts continued to elude Y&T. That theme would continue with 1984's In Rock We Trust but the tide would change with the release of the song Summertime Girls. Originally appearing as the lone studio track on the live Open Fire album, the song would get added to 1985's Down for the Count and give Y&T some serious commercial attention. That attention would be fleeting however as Summertime Girls remains their biggest hit single and Y&T was subsequently dropped from A&M Records. Y&T 1987 saw the band re-emerge on the rock-heavy Geffen label. Original drummer Leonard Haze was out and new drummer Jimmy Degrasso was in. Contagious had every ingredient from the keyboard to the hooks to the hairspray that should've assured bigger success. Unfortunately, the guiding hand of John Kalodner couldn't pull Y&T to the success of which he had with Aerosmith. After releasing 1990's Ten album (featuring new guitarist Stef Burns replacing Alves), Y&T took a long break as the new wave of Grunge music started to take over. 1995 saw the band return with Musically Incorrect; an album that had solid material yet certainly was not flavor-of-the-week fare. That trend would continue with 1997's aptly titled Endangered Species. Y&T would go on an extended hiatus as guitarist/singer Dave Meneketti focused on a solo career. The band would come back to rave reviews in 2010 with Facemelter (featuring new drummer Mike Vanderhule); an album that showed a serious return to form for the band. Tragically, this would be the final album for bassist Phil Kennemore who succumbed to cancer during the touring cycle for the album. Y&T would soldier on with replacement bassist Brad Lang before being replaced in 2016 by Aaron Leigh. The band had two more tragic losses in 2016 as original drummer Leonard Haze and longtime sound man Tom Size both passed away. In this in-depth discussion your hosts and guest discuss the history of the band and go through each album in the studio discography. Favorite and least favorite tracks are discussed as well as album covers and lyrics. Underlining much of the conversation are theories of why this amazing band never achieved bigger success. It's a long, fun discussion about a band that continues to wow crowds 40 years after the release of their first album. We hope you enjoy Y&T Discussion - Ep263 and SHARE with a friend! Buy Music! Y&T iTunes Review: Okay... I'm hooked! by DaveChandler22 on Nov 09, 2016 Rating: ★★★★★ I just started listening a last week. I listened to "1974 in Review" and that was cool! I grew up a Kiss fan. I loved that so much Kiss came up and the Casablanca insight. Also, I really enjoyed the Ratt/Alexi show! I had forgotten how great Ratt was. I'll be looking for some of those songs you guys played. I will going back and listening to more past shows (more than likely all of the past shows) as well as looking forward to your new ones. Thanks guys! 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Michael Charles of Change Dezign talks about why and how he does his work as a Diversity Consultant
On 23 October 2014, the third in a series of live online events leading up to the World Humanitarian Summit Eastern and Southern Africa regional consultation was hosted by PHAP. Leading up to the regional consultation event, which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, at the end of October, this live online event focused on the regional priorities concerning humanitarian effectiveness. Speakers included Michael Charles, Regional Programs Coordinator for the Southern Africa region, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Francis Onditi, Regional Child Protection Coordinator for West and East Africa, Save the Children International; Filipa Gouveia, Programme Officer and Humanitarian Focal Point, UNFPA Mozambique; Rania El Rajji, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor, MSF-Spain (Kenya); Mvuselelo Huni, Chief Operations Officer, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) (Zimbabwe); and Joseph Nkinzo, Executive Director, Hope in Action International (Kenya).
On 23 October 2014, the third in a series of live online events leading up to the World Humanitarian Summit Eastern and Southern Africa regional consultation was hosted by PHAP. Leading up to the regional consultation event, which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, at the end of October, this live online event focused on the regional priorities concerning humanitarian effectiveness. Speakers included Michael Charles, Regional Programs Coordinator for the Southern Africa region, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Francis Onditi, Regional Child Protection Coordinator for West and East Africa, Save the Children International; Filipa Gouveia, Programme Officer and Humanitarian Focal Point, UNFPA Mozambique; Rania El Rajji, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor, MSF-Spain (Kenya); Mvuselelo Huni, Chief Operations Officer, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) (Zimbabwe); and Joseph Nkinzo, Executive Director, Hope in Action International (Kenya).
A repost of our 2010 Sarcastic Voyage interview with animation writer Michael Charles Hill (GI Joe, Transformers, Jem).
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, published the book, The Population Bomb, which shook the world as it discussed the connection between environmental degradation and exponential human population growth. Though critics abound, many subsequent scholars and activists have continued the push for humane, science-based public policy to address the quandary of providing a good standard of living for all while faced with the constraints of earth's finite resources. Today, Dr. Ehrlich and his co-author, Michael Charles Tobias – CEO of the Dancing Star Foundation www.dancingstarfoundation.org, will join us to discuss his newest book, Hope on Earth, which covers some of the most pressing environmental concerns of the moment.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, published the book, The Population Bomb, which shook the world as it discussed the connection between environmental degradation and exponential human population growth. Though critics abound, many subsequent scholars and activists have continued the push for humane, science-based public policy to address the quandary of providing a good standard of living for all while faced with the constraints of earth's finite resources. Today, Dr. Ehrlich and his co-author, Michael Charles Tobias – CEO of the Dancing Star Foundation www.dancingstarfoundation.org, will join us to discuss his newest book, Hope on Earth, which covers some of the most pressing environmental concerns of the moment.
Michael Charles is the production coordinator and director of the play "Church Girl" which is being performed in Toronto on August 12 and August 13. Michael has been involved in producing events for over 15 years. He shares with us a variety of things including how did he get involved in producing events, how has the entertainment marketplace has changed and how and when started getting involved with the production of plays, why he became an entrepreneur and how has that journey been. He talks about Church Girl, the writer of Church Girl - Angela Barrow-Dunlap, the cast including Robin Givens, Angela Winbush, Demetria McKinney and Clifton Powell. Church Girl is being performed on Friday, August 12 (8:00 p.m.) and Saturday, August 13 (3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.) at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East in Toronto. For ticket information, please call (416) 872-2262, (416) 250-8500 ext. 4 or you can purchase tickets online at www.sonycentre.ca or www.ticketmaster.ca For more information, including inforamtion about the play, information about the cast and directions to the venue, please go to http://www.profileent.ca/
This week's playlist: • Sloppy Drunk by Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, from Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women: Deluxe Edition (1994); available from Alligator Records or the iTunes Music Store. Visit UppityBluesWomen.com for more information. • Honey Bee by Papa Mali from Do Your Thing (2007); available from FogCityRecords.com and the iTunes Music Store. Visit this page, sponsored by Fog City Records, and read this article at JamBands.com for more information about Papa Mali. • I'm Still Leaving You by Katie Webster, from Katie Webster - Deluxe Edition (1999); available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit Katie's bio page at the Alligator site for more information. • The Tune (the chords my daddy taught me) by Michael Charles, from BAR, Volume 5 (2008); available from BluesAndRootsPromotions.com. Michael's CD, I'm Nobody's Fool (2006), which also includes The Tune, is available from the store at Michael's site and CD Baby. Visit MichaelCharles.us and his MySpace page for more information. • Anytime You Want, Can't Let Go and How in the Devil, by Sean Costello, all from We Can Get Together (2008); available now from the U.S. iTMS. Release of the physical CD is set for Feb. 19th. Visit SeanCostello.com and this page at DeltaGrooveProductions.com for more information. • When Malindy Sings by Phantom Blues Band, from Footprints (2007); available direct from the band when you click the "CD" link at their site, and the iTMS. Visit PhantomBluesBand.com and this page at DeltaGrooveProductions.com for more information. • Good Day 4 Bad Whiskey by The Paul Wood Band, from Pirate Radio (2003), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit Paul-Wood.com and Paul's Garageband page for more information. • Lower on Your List of Priorities by Roomful of Blues, from Raisin' a Ruckus (2008); available from the store at their site, Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit Roomful.com for more information. Mentioned during this show: what's a cannoli?; Mike's Pastry, Boston home of sublime cannoli; how people feel about Mike's Pastry; and the blues thread at MyMontanaReduxMyfreeforum.org; click here for more information about how you can obtain podcasts; click here to donate to the Bob Enos Memorial Fund. Excellent online resources for more information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; and be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues. Be sure to read Today's Chicago Blues by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago. (Music on Murphy's Saloon #112 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, the PROMONET program of the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Download.com or Garageband.com)
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