Amiable Follower

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 work sometimes when journalists must tell unflattering truths about the work of a pleasant and good person, but when your job is to tell the public the bare facts, what else can they do? We are lucky in Federal Way to have some good journalists, and there is sometimes a stark contrast between their work and observations, and those of biased and incompetent so-called civic organizations. The media is by no means above criticism, but the real professionals that work in that capacity, and educated in accredited colleges or universities, usually get the facts right. Lydia Assefa-Dawson has been a figurehead to fill in the time gap between the old and the new.  Although filling in a vacancy with a pleasant air, her time as a politician should be appropriately though respectfully brief as the election is soon to come, and a bold, real leader who will stand up for the Common Man waits in the wings.