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King County Executive Ron Sims made few friends in state and local government when he came out against Proposition 1, the combined transit and road funding package.
Sims, a longtime supporter of rail and transit, said the package doesn't do enough fast enough. And the expense is too much, given the benefits that will result. The reversal angered officials from Sound Transit head Joni Earl to Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg.
But an e-mail between two Sims staff members – staff chief Kurt Triplett and federal relations advisor Maura Brueger – shows they were worried that Sims damaged relations with federal office holders as well. (USDOT is the federal Department of Transportation).
From: Brueger, Maura
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: Triplet, Kurt
Subject: RE: MURRAY ISSUE – FW: Opinion: – The roads-and-transit plan: so much cost to do so little – Seattle Times NewspaperStill too soon to know how high a price he will pay for his honesty. Being right is not always enough!
I am pissed and disappointed (not at him personally, of course) because we have positioned him to do remarkable things over the next year or two. This has impacts potentially far beyond the RTID/ST vote.
Note, that USDOT noticed this and had concerns. Ron Sims without a supportive Senator Murray has only marginal value to them in the long-run.
Morning is over and now we move forward and work to marginalize the long-term impacts.
Amid all the excitement of yesterday's announcement from Gov. Gregoire about the Puget Sound Partnership locating its offices in Tacoma was one curiosity. The official press release put out by the governor's office referred to Tacoma as a satellite office.
OLYMPIA – Governor Chris Gregoire today announced that the Puget Sound Partnership will open an office in the City of Tacoma’s Urban Waters marine research center on Thea Foss Waterway. The satellite office will operate in close proximity to Tacoma’s environmental services division labs and UW-Tacoma research labs.
Satellite? Won't the Tacoma office include the agency's executive director, and some 30 people?
Yes and yes.
But it appears officials are tip-toeing around a provision of the state constitution that requires the headquarters of state agencies to locate in the capitol. That usually means Olympia, but Tumwater and Lacey qualify, too.
Thus, the "headquarters" of the Puget Sound Partnership will likely remain in Olympia. But only on paper. In this case, the satellite will be larger than the mother ship.
