Calling for kidnapping and concrete shoes? Stay classy, Seattle Weekly.

Mr. Hannan: Do I have to choose? I don't believe the unions or Mr. Eyman are deserved of a citizenship award, but come on. Did you just fall off a turnip truck? Mr. Eyman is taking money from kids? Who do you think the teacher's union goes after when they feel their power is being challenged? That's right. The kids. Noble.

New to the area, Mr. Hannan?

Eyman's a major irritant, not a minor one.

I'm sorry, J.R. You're absolutely right. Minor irritants usually don't bankrupt a state's government services.

Caleb, why are you afraid of the initiative process? Do you really feel the voters of Washington are so stupid that they can be duped so easily?

So the message is use Union mafia tactics to silence the opposition. Lenin would be proud.

To Tim Eymans credit, I am sure Tim knows how to pull a trigger especially when a Union thug may come to his home in the middle of the night. And just a reminder to other free men don't hesitate to exercise your God given constitutional rights when a socialist thug may come a knocking . There are still free men left in this country that will not be pushed around.

"Caleb says: Minor irritants usually don't bankrupt a state's government services.
Bankrupt? How is maintaining revenue plus inflation, plus population growth bankrupting the government?

"But doesn't a situation like 1033, where we're literally stealing money from old people and kids, call for something more direct?"
Try Googling "define: literally." Apparently allowing people to keep their money is now considered 'stealing.'

And how unbelievably pathetic that you are promoting violence against an individual whose crime is starting an initiative. If democracy is great then leave it up to the people. Imagine if someone on the right wrote this.

You make me sick.

Too bad Seattle Weekly contributors don't have to follow "Seattle Weekly Terms of Use" --
Transmitting any information, data, text, files, links, software, chats, communication or other materials that is unlawful, and in particular, that is harmful to minors, physically threatening, invasive of another's privacy, defamatory, obscene, or that contains hate speech, as well as material of any kind or nature that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, provincial, national, or international law or regulation,;

Way to show how tolerant you are. Obviously you know what is best for everyone else...I guess that's why you choose journalism as a "career" (if that's what you call it).

Caleb Hannan, by writing and publishing this article is a stain the Seattle Weekly. It reflects poorly on him and the staff that thought this was new worthy.

Yearning for the days of the past, when influence could be purchased with violence and threats is even dumber then expecting government to actually be fiscally responsible.

Come on over to my place there Caleb....have a little something waiting for ya...

WOW Caleb, do some homwork and look up the word FACSISM... you seem to think that the initiative process should only apply to those who agree with you. Also, if you think democracy is great.. then live by it.

So, you're ok with increasing spending 33% when revenues only went by a much smaller amount? When those defending excessive spending say that we'd have to CUT services, what they really should be saying is "We're not going to increase it as much as we'd like". Spending in our state has increased across the board, NOT been cut. Learn some math before you defend "cuts against our elderly" as an arguement.

Thanks for showing how Washington politics got so messed up.

Haha, fuck you man. You're pathetic and calling for violence against someone (especially "kneecapping?" I guess you do kind of look like Tanya Harding, actually..) really shows your true colors.

Keep on keeping on kid, you look like such an arrogant fool.

What a piece of excrement you are,Caleb. Did you go to journalism school to learn how to blog? Eyman should sue your ass for inciting violence against him and his family....

Thanks for all the kind words, gdog. Just one clerical edit.

It's "shit." Not excrement. Shit is the word you were looking for.

Carry on.

Wow, this is right out of 1930's Italy and Germany. It is so sad that it has come to this. The WEEKLY has blood on its hands for hate speech such as this. What's next, Mr. Hannan, Kristellnacht against conservatives?

Inciting and encouraging violence?

You have defined yourself as a merchant of chaos and sleaze.

Please clean yourself.

You stink.

Bad odor!

Thanks ever-so, Caleb...but I prefer to call you excrement. I like the onomonopoetic nature of the word to describe the complete lack of taste and decorum you show.
I get how this works, though. How else to raise revenues in a dying medium?....Say the most outlandish thing possible under the guise of satire (Johnathon Swift you are not, btw) and hopefully get picked up by a regional or, shock, national site to funnel hits to your "story." Which then allows you to raise your ad rates.... You're not just excrement, you're a freak show too. Congrats. I'm sure Mommy and Daddy are proud.

Maybe the author of this article needs to be kneecapped

Any volunteers?

who says the left is hateful and unhinged? nothing wrong with calling for a little violence when someone is trying to give the public some control over our Gov. what happens if this passes, the Seattle Weekly gonna call for mass kneecapping? wacko libs.

I'm not even sure yet how I feel about this initiative, but I certainly am against fighting with physical threats instead of intellect. How extremely uncivilized of you and your editors to write such rubbish. Even if written jokingly, it was in extremely poor taste and very unprofessional.

"... [W]e can't help but feel nostalgic for days long gone. Days when millions in campaign money wouldn't be necessary to stop a minor irritant like Eyman. When, instead, a simple knock on the door and well-timed threat would be enough to solve any disagreement. Don't get us wrong. Democracy is great."

That would be totalitarian democracy, right?

BIG UNIONS,GOVERMENT WORKERS,TEACHERS & SERVICE EMPLOYEES? WHY WOULD'NT I WANT TO GIVE THEM ALL MY MONEY?

old-school union justice? It went out with cross burning & lynch mobs assholes!

with the 1.5 million raised in the last month and the 2 million still in the pot perhaps you should give it to the old people and kids if you are so concerned about there welfare!

I wax curious and sad over concern exhibited by some commenters at this column and pray hope that you soon reconsider your unkind words about the columnist, a human being deserving of compassion and decent treatment as do we all.

Consider now, for a moment, what it would mean to once dream of an article in Vanity Fair or a byline in Rolling Stone, to aspire one day of being a Matt Taibbi or a Mark Ames, a new breed of cutting-edge journo, mixing gonzo styling with acerbic wit to the acclaim and profane of pundits and laudits, finding one day oneself at the center of controversy then feted and tipped the next.

Then imagine, for just a moment, your dreams dashed. Scraping by a barely livable wage in a provincial frontier town like Seattle or Knoxville for an auxiliary weekly newspaper relegated to second-fiddle, desperate in their attempt to take the role of the edgy vox of the self-proclaimed creative class but increasingly pathetic and contrived in their forced attempts at a rebelliousness appealing only to a graying and dying readership of the decrepit and aged who long for days they'll never see again.

Gone is the acclaim of the titans of the intelligentsia, replaced only by the occasional 'attaboy' of your similarly boated co-workers. Vanished is the long sought profane of the grim-faced mainstream press, replaced only by the rail of a single, lonely talk show host on the 20th rated station in market 14, reinforced with a stern but fatherly arched eyebrow from an editor who pulls you into the warm embrace of his increasingly generous bosom.

Such is the state-of-affairs of Candy Apple, who never had the benefit of being well sourced, who found himself often absent the opportunities discovered by his contemporaries, who now is left with this ... periodic attempts to shock and thrill until the economic realities of his profession play catch up and he finds himself in the gray and dull existence of an unskilled office automaton in a dreary and depressing city, desperately clinging to a semblance of a life once-dreamed ... sending out unanswered queries and pitches to the magazines for which he once aspired of writing. Now left to pounding out diatribes on a blog or a podcast, visited - perhaps - by a few friends and relatives, during the tick-tock lunch breaks his supervisor allows. And too, even those diatribes exhibit the same shaky command of language, the same inability to effectively communicate thought, the same proletarian use of grammar that was always his undoing, that forever served as the impediment to his dreams.

Now please ask yourself. Are your unkind words warranted? Are they acceptable? Are they proper? Please. Compassion is a talent, not a trait. Exhibit some toward Candy Apple. Eventually there may come a day when, even you, may need it in return.

Thank you.

Sate must learn how to deliver more with less,just like private company or families must do in bad times.
Eyman is the spokesman for all of us who vote YES on 1033. GM

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But doesn't a situation like 1033, where we're literally stealing money from old people and kids, call for something more direct?

Wow, allowing me to keep my hard earned money, money that is taken from me before it ever hits my bank account, is stealing from seniors & kids?