Seattle drunk house project gets beer delivery

Dori writes…

In these brutal economic times, a lot of people are upside down in their mortgages and are losing their homes. But there’s one group of people who don’t have to worry about that – the residents of 1811 Eastlake. The housing project for chronic alcoholics in Downtown Seattle. While I support many shelters and job training programs for the homeless, this project has always struck me as misguided – public funds are spent on housing that allows alcoholics to drink in their publicly subsidized apartments.

That’s why I found these pictures so disturbing. A Downtown Emergency Service Center van unloading huge quantities of beer for the residents of this building. This program is funded both privately and publicly – taxpayer funds have gone to this project from the City of Seattle, King County, US Dept of HUD, Washington State Housing Finance Commission. and the State of Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development.

Your tax dollars at work.

It’s taxpayer-booze Monday on the Dori Monson Show. I also got this tip over the weekend from a listener. The Puget Sound Partnership is a coalition that is supposedly working to clean up and save Puget Sound. It’s run by David Dicks – son of Congressman Norm Dicks.

My tipster sent me an invoice – it shows an attempt by the Puget Sound Partnership to bill Washington taxpayers thousand of dollars for booze at their February event at the Convention and Trade Center. An accountant at the Office of Financial Management rejected the invoice with the “do not pay” notation. But why were they trying to bill taxpayers for their booze in the first place?