America-Centric Progressive-Conservative

I want to thank Dini Duclos, the councilwoman in Position 7, for her support for my 2014 Congressional campaign in the 9th Congressional District.  She and Councilwomen Kelly Maloney (now, former councilwoman) and Susan Honda are among the handful of Establishment people that have been nice to me.  I can see either one of these three competent women being the next Federal Way mayor some day. -- Mark Greene, Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 1 [Revised on 2/12/17.]

Lydia Assefa-Dawson has an amiable personality and is a good fit for her non-political work in the social services field, but Federal Way citizens might want to reevaluate whether she should remain on the Federal Way City Council that she was appointed to, when the November 3rd election comes around. In her year and a half on the Council, she has not taken a single initiative of anything of significance relating to her position on the Council. Also, it is pretty much widely known around City Hall that she is clueless regarding the nuts and bolts of administering a city of almost a hundred thousand people, not to mention whether she has the temerity that's necessary to give orders to department heads and other subordinates. One journalist, though it couldn't have been a pleasant task for him, had the integrity to point out the stark truth about Assefa-Dawson's general cluelessness when it comes to city affairs. Journalism has to be the most difficult of wo...