Mayor ads coming to cable?
State Sen. Ed Murray will begin airing some Seattle mayoral campaign commercials on cable TV tomorrow, joining incumbent Mike McGinn and Bruce Harrell in the broadcast battle, Publicola reports. The story also notes that Peter Steinbrueck will pass on TV ads, instead concentrating on "direct voter contact." Steinbrueck's campaign manager, Tom Van Bronkhorst, tells us that the decision is not about money, or lack thereof. It's just that direct mail pieces are a better way to reach potential supporters. The strategy would be the same, he said, "even if I had an extra $200,000 in cash right now." Van Bronkhorst said focus group research has shown that Steinbrueck's supporters tend to be very active. "We don't think they are going to be home watching TV in the summer," he said.
Publicola takes the Murray release as an occasion to grade the candidates' commercials: A for Harrell, B for McGinn and C for Murray. Not sure we agree, but the grades sure are explained well.
Microsoft shakeup coming Thursday
Microsoft's expected organizational shakeup will take place on Thursday, according to influential national tech news site, All Things D. Based on that report, which came out late Monday, Puget Sound Business Journal and GeekWire, among others, reprised some of the potential scenarios for changes. But nobody really knows, at least anyone who is talking. Meanwhile, All Things D writer Kara Swisher got an email today from Ford CEO Alan Mulally?? who left Boeing for that job?? confirming that he had advised Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on how to revamp the company.
"While we clearly are not part of any Microsoft reorganization or its business operations," wrote Mulally, "we have shared with Steve ? as we have with many others who have asked ? the elements of the Ford business transformation, including the importance of having a compelling vision and the relentless implementation of a plan that delivers the vision."
Given Mulally's performance at both Boeing in Puget Sound and Ford, that's promising for the long run at Microsoft?? presuming Microsoft doesn't conclude that Boeing's smartest move ever was to take off for Chicago.
Officers back to work
An arbitrator overturned the firing of three Monroe Corrections Center employees whose mistakes, the state had once suggested, might have contributed to the murder of fellow guard Jayme Biendl. She was murdered in the prison chapel in 2011 by inmate Byron Scherf, who faces the death penalty.?The Herald reported today that the Department of Corrections must offer the officers their jobs back; Corrections officials are reviewing the ruling by the arbitrator, who said a larger climate of complacency, not individual mistakes, created dangerous conditions that Scherf exploited.
Amanda Knox retrial
An Italian court will again try once-exonerated Seattle resident Amanda Knox for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia. Associated Press notes that Knox is not expected to attend. But Italian prosecutors will be there with their theories.?
All's quiet inside Green Hill
All was apparently calm inside the Green Hill juvenile facility on Monday, contrary to our report from yesterday. Some activists did demonstrate?? noisily?? outside the facility, according to The Centralia Chronicle, but?Green Hill Superintendent Marybeth Queral told the paper there had been no work stoppage or hunger strike in sympathy with Guantanamo Bay inmates. A spokesman for the Department of Social and Health Services said checks by officials in Olympia with the facility, which is part of DSHS, also indicated no difficulties.
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Source: http://crosscut.com/2013/07/09/thedailytroll/115472/daily-troll/
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