{"id":788,"date":"2006-10-24T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/788"},"modified":"2006-10-26T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T07:12:14","slug":"you-shouldnt-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/you-shouldnt-have\/","title":{"rendered":"You Shouldn’t Have…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Seattle, this is what you get when you vote against Ryan’s reccomendations<\/a>. At the time that Pat Davis was reelected, I said (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Incumbent Pat Davis lies through her teeth on her statement, claiming that she helped reduce the port tax rate by 33% \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the opposite is true. Any property owner who has statements dating back a few years can show you the large jump the port taxes took under Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 watch. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why so many newspapers support Davis, but she also has lots of support from within the Port community, something to be wary of in my opinion<\/strong>. Jack Jolley has run his campaign as an advocate for those that just want a self-sufficient, accountable port.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now, from the Seattle Times<\/a>, Pat Davis shows us why she had strong support from the port, and why taxes under her kept going up:<\/p>\n

Mic Dinsmore is paid more than any other top executive at a major U.S. port, and he’s due to retire in less than six months.<\/p>\n

Today Port of Seattle commissioners are due to consider awarding him a 6 percent raise that would boost his annual salary by $16,400 and lock in an extra $3,000 a year in future state pension benefits.<\/p>\n

If he gets the raise, the 61-year-old Dinsmore would have a final pay packet of $339,841 a year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d substantially more than his peers at other big ports \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and more than double the $150,995 Gov. Christine Gregoire earns as chief executive of the state.<\/p>\n

Commission President Patricia Davis said she thinks he’s earned an annual raise, and she is confident the commission will give it to him.<\/p>\n

But several commissioners said Dinsmore’s performance as chief executive officer doesn’t merit such an increase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, she’s advocating a large raise to a guy who is already overpaid (almost $100k more than comparable ports like L.A., Boston, and New York), a guy who is vastly underperforming (falling tonnage and revenue) and is about to retire anyway (so there isn’t even a need for an incentive to keep him here, even if we were doing a good job). <\/p>\n

Amazing. Yet most of y’all out there voted for her. Shame on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Seattle, this is what you get when you vote against Ryan’s reccomendations. At the time that Pat Davis was reelected, I said (emphasis added): Incumbent Pat Davis lies through her teeth on her statement, claiming that she helped reduce the port tax rate by 33% \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the opposite is true. Any property owner who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}