Tell The City Council You Want Monorail
The usual well-funded monorail opponents are giving one last try to stop us from building a new monorail in Seattle. The last step is for the Seattle City Council to approve the use of city streets for monorail tracks. It is crucial that you let your voice be heard and tell the City Council that we've voted 4 times for monorail and you want it built. more...
We Must Build The Monorail
There are times where communities face critical tests: do they build for the future, or retreat to the past. This is one of those times for the citizens of Seattle. more...
Monorail MVET Growth Analysis
The SMP says the monorail tax will grow at 6.1% per year. The mayor has a more pessimistic view of his economic policy and says it will be 5% per year. We've got the details on the actual difference between the two.
Help Build the Monorail Message
We'll be publishing some print-your-own flyers and brochures here on the site. Help out by adding your suggestions to the comments in this thread. more...
We Must Build The Monorail
There are times where communities face critical tests: do they build for the future, or retreat to the past. This is one of those times for the citizens of Seattle. more...
Mayor and City Council Defy Will of the Voters
Once again the denizens of Seattle City Hall are trying to kill the monorail. more...
Equity Office's Anti-Monorail Activity Causes Employee to Resign
There's a triumvirate of wealthy property owners downtown that are bankrolling the anti-monorail campaign. One employee has had enough of her employer's questionable ethics and has resigned her job. more...
More Endorsements for the Monorail
The campaign to save the monorail from greedy landlords and corporations continues to rack up endorsements. The anti-monorail campaign is stuck at 0. more ...
WAMU Hit Hard By Boycott
Last week's protest against Washington Mutual's anti-monorail activities was a huge success, resulting in the removal of twice 10 times as much money from the bank than what they've spent to fund lies about the monorail. more ...
Boycott WAMU
Although the anti-monorail campaign is late as usual with their public disclosure filing, reliable sources indicate that Washington Mutual has donated $85,000 to the effort to permanently ban the construction of a monorail in Seattle. It's time to boycott WAMU. more...
Monorail Grassroots At Work
The monorail has won 3 elections due to the combination of a great, common sense idea and the dedicated efforts of ordinary, inspired, grassroots volunteers. See how they're back at work this campaign season. more ...
Get a Break From High Gas Prices
Analysts say that the age of cheap oil is over. If that is the case, why would we approve an initiative that will ban the construction of rapid, electrically powered monorail anywhere in the city? more ....
Anti-Monorail Campaign Breaks Copyright
The anti-monorail forces have made another ethically questionable, if not downright illegal move. Their recently launched television commercials feature video that was stolen from a monorail supporter's website. more ...
WAMU Turns To The Dark Side
A buildthemonorail.com exclusive: It appears that another billion dollar downtown business has turned against Seattle and the monorail. more...
Anti-Monorail Campaign Gets Extreme Makeover
In the last several weeks this website has cataloged the distortions, outright lies, and right-wing agenda of the wealthy forces working against the monorail. It looks like that may have had an effect. more...
More Ethics Problems for Monorail Opponents
The anti-monorail campaign has been characterized by two things: distortions of the facts and deceit about who is actually behind their efforts. buildthemonorail.com has filed an official ethics complaint that alleges further illegal activity. more...
Monorail Winning the Endorsement Race
A surprising thing is happening so far in the campaign to save the monorail from right wing extremists. Many of the groups that opposed the monorail in 2002 are now supporting it in 2004. more...
Are Monorail Opponents Simply Anti-Transit?
Monorail opponents say that they oppose the monorail because of their distaste for taxes and elevators. Is it possible that they're also opposed to all forms of mass transit? There's some interesting new data that could answer that question. more ...
Another Recall Lie Exposed
The Seattle Times recently quoted Tim Wulf as saying that his involvement started with his registration of their website domain last year. A simple internet search has revealed that it was actually registered by the chairman of the King County Libertarian party. more...
The Truth About Selig
The monorail opposition is almost entirely funded by a single wealthy property owner. Who is Martin Selig and why does he hate the monorail? more...
Pro-monorail Campaign Launched - Funding, Volunteers Needed
The official pro-monorail campaign has started up to defend the Seattle Monorail from its attackers. It's crucial that you send them any funds you can to run the campaign and any time you can give to help win in November. more ...
What would I-83 do?
Curious about what the anti-monorail initiative would actually do? Get the facts here. more...
Don't Let Tim Eyman Style Anti-Tax Politics Kill The Monorail
Do monorail recall leaders really represent Seattle? Or are they in fact nothing more than local versions of Tim Eyman? more...
I-83 Is An Illegal Initiative
Why vote for something that will only be thrown out after the election due to it's blatant illegality? more...
Monorail Opponents Lie about "Grassroots" Campaign, Fined by Ethics Commission
Remember back in the summer when the monorail opponents such as Liv Finne were collecting signatures and claiming the work was done by their "grassroots volunteers"? Turns out it was a huge deception campaign. more...
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WAMU Hit Hard By Boycott
Last Friday 25-30 Seattle citizens turned out in the rain to protest WAMU's donation of $85,000 to the campaign against the monorail. Many closed their accounts on the spot, resulting in the withdrawal of $171,000 from the bank. That is double what they've spent to spread lies and distortions about the monorail.
In addition, I've gotten email from others who either couldn't make the event or couldn't immediately close their accounts due to open checks, etc. That adds another $50,000 to the total.
UPDATE: Sources indicate that the total withdrawn from WAMU has exceed $1 million dollars!
Many people have asked why WAMU would risk alienating so many people in Seattle by working to block rapid transit in the city. The word on the street is that WAMU employees have admitted that the entire issue is nothing but a pet project of CEO Kerry Killinger. He's always been opposed to the monorail on a purely personal ideological basis. As a publicly traded company, I'm sure that there are many shareholders out there that would be interested to know that Mr. Killinger is hurting their shareholder value by using the company to fund his personal political agenda.
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Count me
by Marcus on 10/25/04 |
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| I'm one of the potential account closers. WaMu did WRONG on this, period. | |
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Bon-Macy's
by Rob K on 10/25/04 |
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| Bon-Macy's made a "small" donation of $500 to the Yes on I-83 campaign. That was my money. I've spent $500 there in the last month. I wish I could get it back. | |
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WaMu
by Peter on 10/26/04 |
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| On October 21 I closed my savings account at Wa Mu (over $50,000). I am working on closing my checking account there but first have to move all my automatic payments to a new checking account at a different bank. I do not think it is appropriate for a bank to donate to a local electoral campaign, period, and especially in this case where it seems they are putting their real estate interests ahead of what is best for the city and its people. It makes me sad because I have banked with WaMu for many years, and was proud to have my savings in a local institution. I feel betrayed by their actions on I-83. | ||
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Wam Yourself
by Mark Rey on 10/28/04 |
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As a former Seattle citizen, I opened 2 checking and 2 savings accounts down here in L.A. when I moved down here. I was happy to engage in a bit of nostalgia banking at this familiar bank. Sadly, I had to close these accounts upon discovering Washington Mutual's intense support for the development of some (rare) pristine land down here called Ahmanson Ranch (look it up!). I went to speak with Customer Service at my branch and they spouted some bull about what a great opportunity it was and blah blah blah. I further pressed them saying I did not agree so they gave me a special number apparently set up just for people like me who were upset about their involvement in such an irresponsible endeavor. After calling the number and speaking with (or being spoken to) about their involvement, I decided to close our accounts and move them to (horrors!) Bank of America. There's a beautiful Wamu branch just up the street from us and it was very convenient to get to, but I couldn't in good conscience support their misguided projects. After first hearing about their lame opposition towards the monorail in Seattle, I figured something at Washington Mutual must REALLY STINK and have made it my goal to inform as many people that Washington Mutual is not a responsible corporate citizen. I always wondered if the Ahmanson Ranch deal was just an anomaly because the bank always seemed so cool, but now I know that this must be the kind of business they are. I WILL NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH WASHINGTON MUTUAL UNTIL THEY GET RID OF SOME OF THESE CORPORATE MONKEYS WHO THINK THEY CAN WORK AGAINST THEIR OWN CLIENTS' BEST INTERESTS. Many thanks. |
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RE: Wam Yourself
by Shawn on 1/24/06 |
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| as a former employee of wamu. I agree with you all they dont care about customers or the employs its a sham what wamu is doing. They only care about wamu and the all mighty dollars | ||
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