When one party runs everything, accountability tends to get soft.
I get a lot of guff from my Democratic friends who assume I must be some kind of Republican, because I do a lot of commentaries that are critical of the party in charge around here. I’m a bit old-school, with the rapidly disappearing belief that the media’s job is to hold those in power accountable. And around here, the Democrats are the ones in power. In a state where power was more evenly divided, the two parties would keep each other honest. That friction is the system working. Around here, that friction is largely gone. Republicans, meanwhile, can’t seem to find a message or the right candidates to offer any meaningful balance.
So the watchdog job falls to whoever’s willing to do it. I’d be doing the same thing broadcasting out of rural Mississippi. The party in power is the party worth scrutinizing.
Which brings me to what The Seattle Times is reporting this week. Billions of your dollars, distributed by King County with little oversight and even less accountability. And when someone inside the system tried to raise the alarm, he got fired.
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