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 Turns To The Dark Side
buildthemonorail.com has obtained an amazing email that was sent out by Washington Mutual to its employees:
The nation’s Nov. 2 General Election is less than a month away. In the coming year, elected officials will be making key policy decisions that will greatly impact the financial services industry, Washington Mutual’s operations, and may influence Washington Mutual’s bottom line.
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Seattle’s Nov.2 ballot will also include Initiative 83 – voting “yes” on this initiative would effectively halt the Seattle Monorail Project (SMP) by barring the Monorail from city streets. The Monorail, a planned 14-mile transit system extending from Ballard to West Seattle, is estimated to cost $1.6 billion and would be paid for by an annual excise tax of 1.4 percent of the value of a motor vehicle. WaMu has become engaged in the Monorail debate because as downtown Seattle’s largest private employer, the company believes the Monorail will not deliver the kind of solution that improves transportation and relieves traffic congestion for the City of Seattle and for our employees. There are higher, more pressing transportation needs in the region, particularly the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Therefore, Washington Mutual is supporting the voters’ right to re-vote on the Monorail.
If you have questions contact Suzanne Dale Estey at (206) 377-4081 or suzanne.daleestey@wamu.net.
Unbelieveable. Another national, billion dollar business has staked out a political position against the citizens of Seattle so that they can enrich their own bottom line at the average person's expense.
Their logic is incredible - downtown's largest employer is against a fast, convenient system that will speed thousands of their employees between home and work every day. I wonder how many parking spaces they are including in their new building on 2nd. I'm sure it's a fraction of the number of employees they will have on the property.
It's very important that Seattle citizens make their voices known to WAMU. Tell them that a good company would work with their neighbors to create a high-capacity, high-speed transportation system. Good neighbors would never support an illegal initiative that aims to prevent a real transit system from every being built in Seattle.
Emails to employees are one thing, but huge campaign donations would be something different all together. We'll be watching campaign finance disclosures over the next few days. If WAMU makes a donation to kill the monorail, this is one Seattle citizen who will immediately cancel his WAMU account and encourage everyone else who supports real transit in Seattle to do the same.
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WAMU Support of the Recall
by Susan O'Connell on 10/7/04 |
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| As a soon to be former customer of WAMU, I encourage others to move their accounts and not support this backward-thinking organization as well as voice your thoughts to them. | |
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RE: WAMU Support of the Recall
by stephen on 10/7/04 |
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| Shame on you for seeking to enrich your bottom line via opposition to a voter approved transportation initiative. I will be encouraging all my friends to close business and personal accounts at WAMU and move them to a more progressive and ethical institution. | ||
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WA MU
by David on 10/7/04 |
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| I for one am happy to see another voice spreading the word that "the Monorail will not deliver the kind of solution that improves transportation and relieves traffic congestion for the City of Seattle". Fix the problem instead of fixating on your "solution". | |
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RE: WA MU
by bscottid on 10/7/04 |
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Some people might be happy to allow millionaire developers and billion-dollar national corporations use their power, money, and influence to destroy a rapid transit system that has already been approved by Seattle voters 3 times. However, I think its a travesty. Seattle has historically been a city with strong, grassroots citizen involvement in its government and civic life. We could be witnessing the end of that if we let a few wealthy special interests get their way. Seattle deperately needs an improved transportation system to move people around the city. We also need hometown companies that are good neighbors and that help build the city, not act as obstructionists and actively work to tear down our one chance to get us out of our perpetual traffic jams. |
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Whether you're for or against the Monorail, this is plain wrong
by Mike Sabin on 10/7/04 |
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| It is morally reprehensible that a company would so blatantly try to influence how its employees are going to vote. An employer exudes a great amount of influence over an employee. For a company to even have, let along state its “official” political position is to influence its employees. It’s equivalent to the Bush tactic of telling the American people “you’re either with us or with the terrorists.” In this case, WAMU is telling its employees they are either with the company or against it, and using a cheap emotional guilt trip to influence how their employees will vote. I really don’t know how I can continue to do business with WAMU. Time to switch back to Bank of America. | |
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WAMU Customer Who Supports I-83
by Jim Day on 10/13/04 |
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I am a WAMU customer and strong supporter of Yes On I-83. Thank you WAMU for supporting Yes On I-83. We cannot afford two mass transit systems. Jim Day |
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Outrageous
by Michael on 10/20/04 |
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I can totally understand the Seattle voters frustration about the Monorail project. First of all, as noted before, the citizens have already voted three times and all three times it has passed. The monorail is not perfect. Very few of us like the fact that we are paying the excise tax on our vehicles. But, let's be real. By voting YES on I-83, you are truly showing that you DO NOT UNDERSTAND the process AT ALL. If you vote YES on I-83, you will not end the excise tax. They can continue collecting it until THE CORRECT METHOD TO RECALL THE MONORAIL IS USED. Instead, the backers of I-83 (i.e. Selig and now WAMU) are looking for a way to end the monorail without going through the proper recall porcess. Besides, I-83 has already been ruled illegal by one judge. And, in the end, it will be said that the initiative process cannot violate the Growth Management Act. So, why make things worse by endorsing an initiave that is illegal and does not end the authority to collect the Tax? |
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