Rosenberger Doesn't Give a Damn 'Bout Noble's Bad Reputation

• Sideshow Bob, you lie. You have never been a chief deputy. You�ve never been a senior appraiser and you�ve never managed. You couldn�t even manage you zipper at work and you had no part in the departments IAAO designation. What you have been is a commercial appraiser and that is all. I looked at your plan and believe it�s a plan to nowhere. It doesn�t take into account RCW rules and guidelines or union agreements. What you�ve proposed is just more spending. To send out two appraisers to do a one man job is a waste of manpower. You can�t reduce 15% of staff by attrition when attrition is one percent. You can�t move out of a county building to Bellevue where costs are even higher. Increasing hours from 35 to 40 will insure higher wages and higher benefit packages, which results in higher costs. As a taxpayer you shouldn�t even vote for yourself. As a soon to be three time loser for the Assessor job you should never run for public office again. Do your homework like I have and you�ll see that your plan is a joke much like yourself. Any one who votes for you is just uninformed and/or has listened to your lies. No hate; I just want people to know the truth about what is a very important job in the county. We need someone for Assessor who is experienced, who has lead and someone who can be respected by the legislature in Olympia and� Sideshow Bob, that ain�t you. Keeping it Real

• Rosenberger doesnt have a lot of support from his former peers and I don't think he ever had a reputation as a particularly good appraiser. When you toss in no management experience whatsoever . . . who cares if he can talk his way into bed with local democrats? I think the people will know the difference.

• Albertini and Rosenberger received the top Muni League ratings, which mean a lot to me. Since I think it's time for someone from outside of the Noble/Medved/Rosenberger cabal, I'll be voting for Albertini.

• And the Alki Foundation (Seattle Chamber of Commerce) gave Hara a sole endorsement.

• The Municipal League, which does a better job than most groups checking out facts, gave Bob Rosenberger a Very Good rating, along with Albertini, and Lloyd Hara got a Good rating. Maybe for a mainly technical job experience matters.

• "regularjoe" is chock full of misinformation, isn't he? Hara <u>has not quit</u> the Port Commission - <u>or any other term</u> of office (as claimed elsewhere by the Rosenberger snow machine). Hara <u>was not</u> mired in Port scandals. He <u>exposed</u> Port scandals. The major misconduct case (involving multiple counts of civil fraud) was due to senior staff rushing to finalize misleading documents in the closing hours of 2005, with the admitted motive of getting them approved before Hara took office January 1, 2006. (It's all in the investigative reports.) Hara <u>did not run</u> for Elections Director. Hara won <u>national management awards</u> as City Treasurer. His office was eliminated (along with others) in a sweeping voter-approved charter revision - but <u>on the very same ballot</u>, Seattle voters <u>re-elected him overwhelmingly</u> (87,880 to 57,831) to a 4th term in 1991. And "regularjoe" offers <u>no rebuttal</u> - only diversionary chatter - when "swede" notes that Rosenberger has not one day of management experience, and that the departmental IAAO award is self-nominated and self-assessed.

• hey, joe I suggest you do the research rather than mouthing talking points from Rosenberger. The Treasure's office was consolidated with the Comptroller's office. In addition, that year, the Treasure's office was on the ballot and Hara won. There was no scandal. At the Port, there has been one voice of fiscal sanity - Hara. And he left FEMA because he had family commitments that took priority. Get your facts straight. I noticed you couldn't tell me anything Rosenberger's run. Oh, by the way, Rosenberger has run for office himself multiple times. The results? He lost each time. Not exactly a record of stellar success. Is there anyone else in this field that's won countywide and is a Democrat. Just Hara. You may be a regular joe, but your facts are all wrong.

• SeattleLite - "Noble knows what it takes to lead this department"? Seattle Times <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008851472_noble13m.html>backgrounder</a>.

• swede, if could read, you would notice that the award SE Seattle cites was an award by the well respected International Association of Assessing Officers to the Department Of Assessment itself, not to an individual. I would suggest that you do some research before claiming that Lloyd Hara is the only one with management experience. What management experience does he have? He was fired by the Clinton Administration after only 10 months on the job as director of FEMA because of his poor management skills! The voters and city council eliminated his position as City Treasurer because he messed up so much. At the Port of Seattle, he was mired in financial scandals, which is why perhaps he quit before his term was over. Do you remember he ran for the Director of Elections office in February? Lloyd is joke who will run for any office he thinks will pay more money! It wouldn't surprise me if he ran for Sheriff next after losing this race.

• Maybe someone would ask who has Rosenberger managed in the past? In the Assessor's office, zip. In 24 years in the office, he was never appointed to a management position. The award SE Seattlelite mentions is, to my understanding, an award to apply for -- sort of like one of those Internet diplomas. Rosenberger is a good Democrat, but so is Hara. But only one person in this race has any real management experience in the public sector, and that's Lloyd Hara. Touting Scott Noble as a backer is an example of Rosenberger not have much better judgement that Noble. At least, I trust, Bob didn't celebrate by having a drink and getting behind the wheel.

• SE Seattlelite, my guess is you not only read the press release, but wrote it.

• Rosenberger lacks management experience. The assessor needs to be able to manage over 220 employees. The office does not need more assessors. Budget cuts require a leader that can operate the department more efficiently and with a lot less money. Rosenberger has no history of managing people. The former assessor, Scott Noble, is serving 8 months in the county jail. Other than lack of good judgement, why would Rosenberger be so proud of this convicts endorsement?

• C'mon Laura, you could do better than this! If your boss at the Weekly was involved in something that led to him having a "bad reputation" would you quit your job over it? If he gave you a bonus or nominated you for a journalistic award, would you turn that down? I don't think so, because all these would have been done in recognition of your professional accomplishments. Likewise, Scott Noble's endorsement of Bob Rosenberger is based on his qualifications for this position. Having been re-elected in every election since 1992 and leading the Assessor's Office that received numerous national awards including the �Certificate of Excellence in Assessment Administration� from the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO), Scott Noble knows what it takes to lead this department and he thinks that person is Bob Rosenberger. I also saw the press release and I think you missed the mark on this one. The story in the press release is that in just 4 weeks, Bob Rosenberger has caught up with and surpassed Lloyd Hara who has been running for the Assessor's office since May, in terms of Democratic Ditrict endorsements. Most political insiders considered Hara as the front runner in this race having run multiple times for different offices, but this shows that Hara's support is soft and has been weakening since Bob Rosenberger entered the race.

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