Introduction to the Seattle Mafia

What is the Seattle Mafia, and why should you care about it?

Of course, the term mafia is commonly applied to various organized crime groups, such as the Russian Mafia, Japanese Mafia, etc. The city of Seattle is effectively ruled by a group of shadowy characters who are as rich and powerful as they are corrupt. A classic exposé titled Who Really Runs Seattle listed roughly one hundred people belonging to this group, including Bill Gates along with many people who aren’t well known even in Seattle. (See the table below) I refer to these people collectively as the Seattle Mafia.

Core Seattle Mafia Members
Ackerley’s Tom Alberg J.D. Alexander Paul Allen Virginia Anderson Bill Bain Carl Behnke Renee Behnke Doug Beighle Rick Bender Debbie Bevier Frank Blethen Jeff Brotman Don Brunell Bullitt’s Tom Byers Phyllis Campbell Bud Coffey Phil Condit Dave Cortelyou Jack Cullen Mic Dinsmore Peter Donnelly George Duff Roger Eigsti	Jim Ellis John Ellis Dan Evans Anne Farrell Bob Flowers Mike Flynn Bill Gates William Gates Robert Giles Bob Gogerty Matt Griffin Jerry Grinstein Jerry Grinstein Sarah Jewell Gerry Johnson James Johnson Kate Joncas Ron Judd Kerry Killinger Bill Lewis Don Lorentz Scott McClellan Richard McCormick Tommio Moriguchi Shan Mullin	John Nesholm Nordstrom’s Louis Peterson Rick Redman William Reed, Jr. Jay Reich Norm Rice John Rindlaub Jay Rockey Jill Ruckelshaus William Ruckelshaus Jon Runstad Judith Runstad Faye Sarakowsky Herman Sarakowsky Paul Skinner Richard Sonstelie David Tang Irwin Treiger Bob Wallace Tayloe Washburn Bob Watt George Weyerhaeuser Bagley Wright Virginia Wright
“Toadies,” etc.
Mindy Cameron Pat Davis Chuck Depew Jack Faris	James Fearn John Hamer Joel Horn	Aaron Ostrom George Scarola Alex Steffen

By extension, the term Seattle Mafia can also include people who work for Bill Gates and his cronies, including an army of media whores, phony activists and other operatives. Please check out the definition I wrote for UrbanDictionary.com...and start fighting back by giving it a thumbs up. As of May 1, 2007, my definition had nine thumbs up and twenty-three dumbs downs.

Ironically, none of the dissenters offered alternative definitions. For how can one assign a positive definition to a term ending in “Mafia”?

That’s precisely the type of logic we need to defeat the Seattle Mafia and the greater Corporate Mafia it’s a part of. Merely popularizing the term Seattle Mafia would be a major victory.

How Dangerous Is It?

I’ve found little evidence to suggest that the Seattle Mafia operates like a traditional organized crime ring, at least in terms of physical violence. It appears that people who challenge the Seattle Mafia may be run out of town, and I’ve received death threats. However, I’m not aware of a single individual who has been murdered by the Seattle Mafia.

This isn’t to say that the Seattle Mafia isn’t capable of murder. On the contrary, members of this group are sick, twisted assholes. They just have more efficient means of accomplishing their goals.

On the other hand, the Seattle Mafia extracts a terrible toll from citizens in general. Taxpayers have been effectively robbed of billions of dollars in the name of “public-private partnerships” such as Safeco Field, QWest Field, Nordstrom’s parking garage, the Convention Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and on and on.

Corporations increasingly dictate policies in schools and in the work place. Thus, the Seattle Mafia can be at least indirectly blamed for much of the tyranny experienced by workers, teachers, parents and students. Corporate operatives such as former Governor Gary Locke have openly bragged about using the WASL and other means to “punish” children. It is no exaggeration to say that work place oppression can amount to torture, and does occasionally contribute to people’s deaths, either by suicide or through health issues.

I believe the late Garfield High School science teacher Tom Hudson was framed by the Seattle Mafia, acting through the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which apparently pushed him into committing suicide. Another teacher at Gatewood Elementary School allegedly died of esophageal cancer, which some people associate with vomiting episodes induced by her treatment by the infamous Principal Dan “Sex Assault” Barton. I know other teachers who have been hospitalized for everything from severe depression to life-threatening physical disorders associated with depression or anxiety.

Thousands of students are cheated out of a decent education or even robbed of their childhood by the Seattle Mafia. No one knows how many have been literally raped by members of the Seattle Mafia, from the late Judge Gary Little (a core member of the Seattle Mafia) to Clint Webb.

Much of the violence and corruption the Seattle Police Department is so famous for can be attributed to its handlers, the Seattle Mafia. The most spectacular example was the WTO protest of 1999, when “the whole world was watching” as police assaulted peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders alike.

The growing numbers of homeless derelicts in Seattle are evidence of corporations’ contributions to society, as is the “gentrification” of Seattle, which is a surprisingly racist city. The Seattle Mafia is increasingly accused of stealing people’s homes and businesses, often in the name of progress that never materializes.

I encourage people to fight the Seattle Mafia. However, it would be irresponsible to not include a warning. Since corporations control so much of our lives, it’s obviously possible that activism can jeopardize one’s well being in many ways. I experienced some extraordinary retaliation by my former employer, the Seattle School District, before I was targeted for a massive job layoff. The Seattle Mafia can make it difficult to find jobs. If you have children in a public school, it can punish them, too.

On the other hand, we’re screwed regardless. If you don’t fight the Seattle Mafia, it’ll still get you. As the Republican Party is destroying America, so are the King County Democrats destroying Seattle and Washington State, on behalf of the Seattle Mafia. And so I do encourage people to find some way to fight back, if only by educating themselves. People who are retired or independently wealthy or who don’t have families are best qualified to engage in full blown activism.

Suggested Reading

I’m working on so many websites and projects, it will literally take years to finish them. I announced my candidacy for a seat on the Seattle School Board on May 1, 2007 and chose this website as my campaign website. Therefore, I’m going to try and get a substantial amount of information about the Seattle Mafia online over the next few months.

In the meantime, I’d like to offer some links to some dynamite references. Ironically, they were all published by the enemy! The first series was published in November 1998. The last three were published between July and December 1999, the year of the sensational Seattle WTO protest, which helped topple Mayor Paul Schell. It was also the year I first ran for office.

Who Really Runs Seattle?

Anyone who wants to understand Seattle politics should have a copy of “Who REALLY Runs Seattle,” written by Mark Worth and published by the Seattle Weekly on November 11, 1998. Unfortunately, you can’t access the entire article(s) online (more about that shortly). That means you’ll have to visit a library in order to copy the entire thing. Then you’ll have to spend a few hours typing it up, because you’re going to want a searchable document on your computer.

This masterpiece is written in several sections, which I’ve linked to below. But before you check it out, be warned: The 2nd, 3rd and next to last sections are incomplete. In the original, they include brief biographies of roughly one hundred of Seattle’s most disgusting citizens. The biographies have apparently been removed from the archived articles. Interesting, eh?

I congratulated Worth for writing such a sensational contribution to Seattle’s sad political scene and was stunned whe he told me he was working on a sequel focusing on Seattle’s sleazy lawfirms. (Are there any other kind?) Frankly, I thought that sounded kind of scary, but I wished him luck and eagerly awaited the results of his research.

One day, I received an e-mail from Worth that simply said, “I’m outta here!” That was the last I ever heard from him. Of course, the Seattle Weekly never printed an exposé of Seattle’s sinister lawfirms.

I’m not suggesting the Seattle Mafia assassinated Mark Worth. However, I strongly suspect he was run out of town, a fate that seems to befall most people who seek to expose the Seattle Mafia.

I should also mention that the Seattle Weekly is itself a part of the Seattle Mafia. So why would it blow the whistle on its own? Well, even the Seattle Times has to print the truth once in a while if it is to maintain any credibility. There could be other factors involved as well. Frankly, I think the folks at the Seattle Weekly got a little carried away and were promptly reigned in by their corporate handlers.

Finally, I’m excited to announce that I’m writing my own biographies of the people who constitute the Seattle Mafia, including the scumbags Mark Worth documented.

Michelle Malkin

That’s right, I’m referring to the right-wing media whore who’s vilified by liberals nationwide, the one who appears to be vying for Ann Coulter’s crown, the slut who wrote a book promoting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as the right thing to do.

In fact, Malkin is one of Seattle’s biggest question marks. During her brief stint with the Seattle Time, she earned my respect as virtually the only reporter in town who criticized the late retired general and Seattle Schools Superintendent John Stanford. But Malkin didn’t stop at Stanford; she threw plenty of shit at the Seattle Mafia in general, though she never used that term.

The Malkin Files include two columns that I think qualify as must reading for any student of the Seattle Mafia, along with the brain-dead liberals that support it. The first is her last column for the Times, A Few Parting Questions; Thanks For The Memories (July 27, 1999).

Print out a copy and hang it on your refrigerator door, where you can peruse a nugget of wisdom each day. This is one of my favorites: “Why is civility more important than truth?”

After Malkin became a syndicated columnist, the Times printed her classic account of the epic Seattle WTO protest, The Cattle In Seattle: You Guys Had It Coming (December 7, 1999). Malkin summed the affair up beautifully in the first sentence: “As I watched fire, tear gas and mass chaos consume Seattle last week, one wicked little thought crossed my mind: It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving city.”

But don’t stop there. Malkin once again goes on to rail against the extraordinary corruption that Seattle liberals turn a blind eye to. This article is another keeper.

So what happened to Malkin? How could such a promising spitfire sell her soul to George Bush, Inc.? I don’t have the answer, and I don’t condone her reincarnation as a cheerleader for the worst (p)Resident in American history.

However, I don’t condone the liberals who bash Malkin, either. From my perspective, they’re a bunch of spineless, hypocritical assholes who piss and moan about problems in distant lands while ignoring the children who are being cruelly exploited in their own backyards. In fact, I sometimes wonder if Seattle liberals drove Malkin into the arms of Corporate America. Like me, she may have said, “What’s the use of fighting for reform when there isn’t a single person with a brain in this city to ally with?”

Any Seattle liberal who wants to prove me a hypocrite can start by writing a tirade against the Seattle Mafia that can measure up to the two columns I cited above.

The Olchefske Files

Who says politics is boring? If you love mysteries, detective stories or conspiracies, check out The Olchefske Files (September 15, 1999), which I maintain is perhaps the best article ever written about Seattle’s “Education Mafia”—and not just because it mentions my name. Read this article very carefully and see how many scandals and conspiracies you can count.

In fact, The Olchefske Files may be a conspiracy within a conspiracy...and I may have been a part of that conspiracy. I don’t have time to go into the details right now, but here’s my theory:

The sensational 4th of July burglary of the Seattle School District’s legal office was an inside job, designed to help the district get rid of incriminating evidence as it foundered ever deeper in corruption and scandals, particularly the SPICE scandal. An operative arranged for me and another school board candidate to receive a few stolen documents to better publicize the burglary. The Seattle Weekly was then recruited to write an article that put the proper spin on the affair, printing it just too late to have any positive effect on the election.

CHECC

Though I first read about CHECC (Choose an Effective City Council) quite some time ago, it took me years to really grasp its significance. I was helped by local media, which like to trumpet CHECC’s triumphs from time to time. So I decided to have a closer look.

The Seattle media would have us believe that CHECC was a reform movement. But that’s preposterous when you consider the names involved. They include Tom Alberg, Bruce “The Discovery Institute Kook” Chapman, the late pedophile judge Gary Little and Little’s very special friend attorney Camden Hall. Many, if not most, of CHECC’s members were Republican lawyers. Nuff said.

Moreover, though I have no way of knowing when Seattle became more or less corrupt, I’ve long figured that it was pretty rotten by 1970, after which it continued to decline. CHECC was formed in 1967.

I strongly suspect that CHECC was in fact a conspiracy to corrupt Seattle, not reform it. CHECC put a notoriously snotty bitch named Phyllis Lamphere on the Seattle City Council. She was married to one Philip Swain, who I believe was president of the Seattle School Board in 1970, the year of the “Garfield High School Conspiracy” (more about that in another article). Her daughter is Barbara Schaad-Lamphere, a frightening pig who became president of the Seattle School Board during the late General John Stanford’s reign of terror.

CHECC is even being promoted by CrossCut.com, the Seattle Weekly’s latest incarnation. I still have a lot of research to do, but just perusing the CHECC documents below has given me a better understanding of the Seattle Mafia.

Seattle Mafia Reading List