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Jan Drago

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Jan Drago v. Water Taxi Naysayers: Brawl of the Week

    ​As any West Seattle-dweller can tell you, the Water Taxi is the best public transit commute leg in the region. You sit on the deck and watch the skyline recede as you speed home across Elliott Bay. Unfortunately the taxi is also a money loser, which leads to regular calls to kill service. Thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Jan Drago Goes Republican and Finally Wins

    Courtesy of King CountyJudge Bruce Hilyer swears in Jan Drago flanked by her backers (from left) Republicans Pete Von Reichbauer and Regan Dunn and Democrat Larry Phillips.​Before the winter holiday break, the County Council deadlocked over who would replace Dow Constantine. The Democrats on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Jan Drago's Near Miss and the 34th Democrats' Hunger Strike in 140 Characters

    You know it was photoshopped because they're all together AND smiling.​ Last night, the King County Council was supposed to replace Dow Constantine. And in typical Seattle fashion, the process of getting to a final vote was both long and carefully considered. An advisory committee narrowed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Jan Drago Survives the First Round of Cuts to Replace Dow Constantine

    This time around, Jan Drago made the first cut.​Jan Drago finally made it to a general election--kind of. An advisory committee created by the King County Council recommended four people to fill now-King County Executive Dow Constantine's vacant council seat. Drago was one of eleven people tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Jan Drago Takes Another Shot at Office

    FacebookJan Drago does not give up.​Since deciding to retire from the City Council, Jan Drago has made it quite clear she does not plan to play any shuffleboard. This spring she applied to become the new CEO of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce but lost out to Phil Bussey. Then she finis ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    The City Spends $1,075 a Head on a Weekend Conference

    Some departing City Hall staffers chill at a Roslyn resort on your dime.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    City Decides Answer to Money Problems Is Spending

    Need to feel better about the terrible city budget? Pound a pint with Corbett.​Thanks to a $72 million deficit facing city government, Mayor Greg Nickels has proposed eliminating 310 positions, draining most of the city's rainy day fund, and cutting back on library hours. But that's not stoppi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Jan Drago's Missed Opportunity: America's Rocky IV Nostalgists

    ​It's no secret than Jan Drago shares a surname with that fearsome fictional pugilist from Rocky IV, Soviet machine Ivan Drago. Played by Dolph Lundgren, Ivan was a scientifically tuned boxer who killed Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed (with his fists) before battling Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Bal ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2009

    Stuck in the Middle With Jan

    ​It's no secret than Jan Drago shares a surname with that fearsome fictional pugilist from Rocky IV, Soviet machine Ivan Drago. Played by Dolph Lundgren, Ivan was a scientifically tuned boxer who killed Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed (with his fists) before battling Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Stuck In the Middle With Jan

    When lame-duck city councilwoman Jan Drago made a surprise entry into the mayoral race against her chief ally, Greg Nickels, she was instantly perceived as the top threat to the incumbent mayor. But her campaign's emphasis on stylistic difference failed to register with voters, resulting in one of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Republicans Dig Donaldson, And Hopefully Area Wazzu Alums Will Too

    ​ Once upon a time, an avowed Republican could run for a citywide seat in Seattle and stand a chance at a respectable showing. That time has passed, but that doesn't mean our fair city still doesn't contain a few strident righties -- or politically active ones at that. The 46th Legislative Dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    New Poll: Nickels vs. Seven Dwarves (Four of Whom Have a Chance)

    ​It's poll results time! In the latest set, brought to you by the UW's Washington Poll, Greg Nickels is comfortably in the lead with 23% of the vote, and his nearest four challengers are uncomfortably bunched together. Joe Mallahan--whose campaign is profiled by Laura Onstot in this week's iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Sigler, the Mayor of CyberSeattle

    ​If websites could decide elections, Norman Zadok Sigler is Seattle's next mayor. Creative, interactive, decorated with lots of eye candy, his site is the easy winner among the web campaigns being waged by the city's eight candidates. Flash graphics and videos, Facebook and Twitter buttons, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    We're Supposed to Walk to the Trains on What?

     Even if you live near a light rail station, there's just one itty bitty problem with the dream of leaving your car behind and walking to the trains: Sidewalks that look like this one. That is, if you have sidewalks at all. The lack of such a basic amenity has been a perpetual issue on the Sout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    A Mayoral Forum in Whispered Asides and Heckling

    There is a small group of younger political wonks that regularly attend candidate forums and at this point in the year, they've pretty much made up their minds. So they're starting to pay less and less attention to the candidates' answers. Thanks to that (and the availability of booze), nearly every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Transpo Committee Gives You Something to Stream When You're Not Streaming MJ's Memorial

    Transportation! Committee!If you're looking to get an early start on taxing your employer's bandwidth, or if the spectacle of MJ's memorial gets to be too much, know that the City Council's Transportation Committee is meeting at 9:30--stream here--and, as mayoral candidate and Committee chair Jan Dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Jan Drago and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

    Boeing had a bad week. Jan Drago just had a really bad day. Let's revisit: * We learned that she spent $43K of city money on travel since 2006--including multiple trips out of the country. * In that vein, fellow Councilmember Richard McIver called her out for her absence from a committee meeting, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Watch Out, Jan: Donaldson Challenges Drago for Second in New Mayoral Poll

    A few weeks ago, James Donaldson's campaign consultant was dumpster-diving for office supplies. Today he finds himself climbing the polls in the mayoral race, right at the heels of Jan Drago. The SurveyUSA/KING-5 poll puts Greg Nickels in first with 24%, Drago second with 15%, James Donaldson third ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2009

    Friends, Breakfast, and the Mayor's Race

    OMG, you'll never guess who sat next to Richard Conlin!

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Phillips Does the Endorsement Dance

    (Jan Drago, with Larry Phillips in background.) Like Bonnie Raitt observed, "I can't make you love me."You may remember all that "hot rhetoric" between Larry Phillips and Ron Sims during last year's budget process, when Phillips was considering a run against the then-executive, culminating in a frig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Mayoral Candidates Talk Housing

    Those looking for a major policy difference between Jan Drago and Greg Nickels can turn to yesterday's housing levy vote--at least for a hint of one. The council approved the levy, 8-0, but Drago failed in her bid to get its amount reduced. Nickels proposed the levy, which, if approved, will raise $ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Peas in a Pod, Fighting

    David C. WongGod help us if this is the campaign debate we have to look forward to. In today's Times, Jan Drago takes some shots at Greg Nickels' effectiveness in Olympia, saying the Mayor's purportedly my-way-or-the-highway style isn't selling in the South Sound. (A few legislators echo the sentime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Exec and Mayoral Candidates Do Battle and Still No Sign of Susan

    Democrats from five local legislative districts co-hosted a candidate forum last night in the sweltering Belltown Labor Temple. It was a top-heavy affair with the candidates for City Attorney, Mayor and King County Executive all taking a turn at the mic. The same few dozen people tend to show up a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Drago v. Nickels: It's On! (Almost)

    From Jan Drago's Twitter feed: "Friends, join me at 12:30 today at SAM's Hammering Man for my campaign kick-off announcement!" She is likely going to focus her campaign on the stylistic differences between herself and the current mayor so making it official at an art museum seems appropriate. Dra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Drago's On the Attack

    Standing under the Hammering Man statute, her hair dyed blond and a fresh pink pedicure, Jan Drago kicked off her campaign against Greg Nickels going on the offensive. Flanked by city council member Bruce Harrell (who better hope he needs absolutely no favors from the mayor for the next seven months ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Hammering Jan

    Though Greg Nickels has been piling on the endorsements in a seeming attempt to dissuade her (today he picked up the King County Conservation voters, for example), City Councilmember/Nickels' ideological doppelganger Jan Drago will be announcing her mayoral candidacy in front of the Seattle Art Muse ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2009

    Drago and Nickels: Running Mates

    Can Jan defeat her friend Greg on “style”?

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    How to Unofficially Run for Mayor

    If it walks like a candidate and quacks like a candidate and ducks into closets with prominent business leaders and campaigners to speak in whispered tones like a candidate, is it running for office? Jan Drago is phone-testing her viability against Nickels, the Seattle Times reported yesterday. Thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    She's Not the Incumbent but Bagshaw Will Be Hard to Beat

    Behind that grandmotherly smile lies a very formidable candidate. Right from the outset, Sally Bagshaw declared that she would seek the fourth City Council position, currently held by Jan Drago. Bagshaw says that while Drago hasn't yet formally endorsed her as successor, Drago recruited her to run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Jan Drago Says She Didn't Know About Stimulus Slight, Rips State's Funding Decisions

    Yesterday, the legislature gave Seattle the shaft on transportation stimulus money, which it poured instead into rural highway concrete. But an interesting story arose at the news conference, in which House Transportation Chair Judy Clibborn said Jan Drago and Greg Nickels knew ahead of time about t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2008

    The Last Flush

    Yesterday, the legislature gave Seattle the shaft on transportation stimulus money, which it poured instead into rural highway concrete. But an interesting story arose at the news conference, in which House Transportation Chair Judy Clibborn said Jan Drago and Greg Nickels knew ahead of time about t ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    City Council’s SLUTty Daydreams

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    City Council Hearts the Scooterati

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    Flexcar Tax Exemption all but Dead

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007

    Police State

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2007

    Drago Explains It All For You

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Moderate Reichert

    Also: Sleazy Huskies, skinny towers.

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    A Shift to the Left

    Nick Licata becomes the new Seattle City Council president, and six female finalists for a vacant seat are picked.

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    City Hall, Labor, and City Light

    Nick Licata becomes the new Seattle City Council president, and six female finalists for a vacant seat are picked.

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Insider vs. Outsider

    City Council members Jan Drago and Nick Licata eye the presidency.

  • News

    November 20, 2002

    Substance and Sideshow

    City Council members Jan Drago and Nick Licata eye the presidency.

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Rail money

    City Council members Jan Drago and Nick Licata eye the presidency.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    This ain't softball

    In his first 100 days, the mayor has aimed high and thrown hard at the City Council. They're not ducking for cover.

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    Power politics

    A close mayor's race boosts the Seattle City Council.

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    What's Jan's plan?

    A close mayor's race boosts the Seattle City Council.

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Where are the candidates?

    The power of incumbency chills City Council races.

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    Task force follies

    Schell's Mardi Gras panels produce yet another crisis at City Hall.

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    Our new council: Get used to it

    Schell's Mardi Gras panels produce yet another crisis at City Hall.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    E-maelstrom

    How citizen outrage stormed the electronic barricades at City Hall.

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    Garages R Us

    How many garages does the city have to give away?

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