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City Hall as a homeless shelter epitomizes Seattle’s problems

Jun 14, 2018, 10:00 PM

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Every day the City of Seattle has another insane idea. Now they want to turn the lobby of Seattle City Hall into a homeless shelter. I am not joking about this.

This is where the City of Seattle does business, and you want to fill it with sleeping bags and tents, so you have to step over people? What are you going to do about the drug addiction that is part of most of these lives? What about the encampment at the King County Courthouse, where homeless people throw feces at jurors?

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They spared little expense when they built this place, because of course our politicians have to have a palace to work in. It’s absolutely unbelievable that instead of saying they won’t tolerate vagrancy, they now want to trash this new building.

And what’s more, since the city has absolutely failed at dealing with this issue, Mayor Jenny Durkan’s idea is to have the whole region pay for Seattle’s failures. Now the Seattle government is just going to turn into panhandlers because they failed to get their life in order politically. They’re going to go hat in hand, to the other cities and counties and tell them to pay for Seattle’s mistakes.

Sally Bagshaw, the council member who last week suggested the city look into buying heroin for homeless addicts, is now alleging that Sea-Tac and Tukwila are driving their homeless people up here and dropping them off in Seattle. If they are, I don’t blame them one bit. Enforce vagrancy laws, get them out of your town. That’s public officials doing the right thing for their taxpayers. Seattle has just decided to allow vagrancy and drug use and people sleeping on the sidewalk — why wouldn’t Tukwila and Sea-Tac ship their homeless up here?

Seattle has created its own problems.

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City Hall as a homeless shelter epitomizes Seattle’s problems