Michael McGinn

Michael McGinn
McGinn at a town hall meeting in November 2011
52nd Mayor of Seattle
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2010
Deputy	Phil Fujii Darryl Smith
Preceded by	Gregory J. Nickels
Majority	105492 (51.14%)[1]
Personal details
Born	December 17, 1959 (1959-12-17) (age 51) Long Island, New York
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Peggy Lynch[2]
Children	Jack Miyo Cian
Residence	Greenwood, Seattle, Washington
Alma mater	Williams College (B.A. 1982) University of Washington School of Law (J.D. 1992)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Attorney, activist
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	Mayor Mike McGinn

Michael "Mike" Patrick McGinn (born December 17, 1959) is the mayor of Seattle, a lawyer, Greenwood neighborhood activist and a former Sierra Club state chair.^[3] In what was characterized as a "sea change in the power structure of Seattle", McGinn differentiated his primary campaign by his opposition to the proposed tunnel replacement to the Alaskan Way Viaduct and won election with the support of groups considered to be "political outsiders" such as environmentalists, biking advocates, musicians, nightclub owners, and younger voters.^[4]

Early life and education

Originally from Long Island, New York, McGinn grew up in a family of eight. He earned a BA in economics from Williams College and worked for Congressman Jim Weaver as a legislative aide. McGinn attended law school at the University of Washington School of Law.^[5] After graduation, he practiced business law for the Seattle firm Stokes Lawrence, becoming a partner. He remained a full-time lawyer for Stokes Lawrence until 2006, when he started a small non-profit.

Political activism

McGinn was the founder and former executive director of the Seattle Great City Initiative, a non-profit advocacy group, as well as a former head of the Greenwood Community Council.^[6] While at Seattle Great Initiative McGinn oversaw a budget of $160,000 and worked alliances with companies like Triad Development, Harbor Properties and Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. on environmental and urban development issues.^[7] As a neighborhood organizer and head of his non-profit, McGinn endorsed his future opponent Mayor Greg Nickels and worked with him to bar development of large, commercial "big box stores", eliminate street parking in favor of bus lanes and push for changes in zoning laws to encourage greater density in the Greenwood neighborhood.^[8] McGinn stepped down from his position as head of the Greenwood Community Council in 2006 and as Executive Director of his non-profit in March 2009 in order to run for Mayor.^[9] In 2007, McGinn used his position as a leader in the Sierra Club's Cascade Chapter to help successfully campaign against Washington State's Proposition 1, a combined road and mass transit measure, in favor of a transit-only measure.^[10][11] Later McGinn chaired the successful campaign to pass a Seattle parks levy.^[12]

2009 Seattle Mayoral Campaign

McGinn announced his candidacy in the 2009 Seattle Mayoral election on March 24, 2009. McGinn stated that his principal policy positions would center on schools, broadband Internet access and local transportation infrastructure. He advocated the abolishing of local school boards and replacing them with city officials, replacing private broadband Internet service with a government-controlled utility provider, the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a surface street instead of the planned tunnel and greater local neighborhood control of their parking taxes and meter rates. ^[13]

Mayor Greg Nickels proposed eliminating Seattle's business tax on SOV commuters on the grounds it was no longer needed and was hurting business and job growth. McGinn opposed ending the tax, called the Employee Hours Tax, which taxes business $25 for each of its employees that drive to work alone. McGinn said that Nickels and his opponent Mallahan, who also favored repealing the tax, were "out of touch" and too close to the "business elite".^[14]

McGinn rode his electrically-assisted bicycle to and from political events and maintained no paid campaign staff. In an upset, aided by exposure in the form of a cover profile from The Stranger,^[15] McGinn led the August primary with 39,097 votes, ahead of Joe Mallahan's 37,933 votes and incumbent Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels' 35,781 votes. By October 2009 the McGinn campaign had raised approximately $150,000.^[16]

Criticism

As mayor, McGinn has experienced political conflict dealing with local unions, developers, the downtown community, moderate environmentalists, businesses and other groups in the city on the subject of the tunnel.^[17]

McGinn's anti-tunnel stance received significant criticism from groups like the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce,^[18] the downtown business community,^[19] the King County Labor Council^[20] and the Seattle Times which called McGinn's surface street plan "impractical" and claimed it would clog downtown and overwhelm nearby Interstate 5.^[21][22]

McGinn did not gain the widespread support of local organized labor unions. The King County Labor Council endorsed McGinn's opponent, Joe Mallahan, mainly on the position that McGinn's opposition to the viaduct tunnel, described by unions as a "deal breaker", would cause the city and its unions to lose jobs and billions of dollars from the State of Washington and Federal government. The viaduct tunnel would have been partially funded by city, state and federal governments, bringing federal money into the state and supporting the building industry.^[20][23] McGinn did, however, receive the endorsements of several other unions, including IBEW Local 77,SEIU Local 925, and UFCW Local 21.^[24]

McGinn's policy prescriptions in 2010 for the city budget that include additional furloughing of city employees, has been met with stiff resistance from local bargaining units.^[25]

After the election, requests for state employee emails revealed a discomfort with the McGinn campaign by state government and transportation officials over McGinn's anti tunnel position. Ron Judd, an aide to Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, sent emails to staff and DOT officials saying McGinn's position was "BS" and accused McGinn of stoking populist angers and relying on voter's ignorance about funding details to advance his anti-tunnel stance. Washington State Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond described McGinn's budget forecasting as "wild accusations" and in a response to questions her involvement in opposing the McGinn campaign said "I can't stand it when politicians make things up in order to win an election. When people do that, I think it's our responsibility to clear the record. That's my motivation."^[26] After the Seattle Firefighters Union Local 27 and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) endorsed Joe Mallahan the SPOG President Sgt. Rich O'Neill went on record at a news conference to criticize McGinn's lack of an adequate policy position regarding public safety.^[27]

McGinn's management record has come under greater scrutiny, including his chairmanship of Seattle's successful 2008 parks levy campaign. Members of the Seattle City Council, including Tom Rasmussen, said that McGinn mismanaged the effort. The City Council became "alarmed" at what members described as a disorganized effort. The City Council appointed Seattle Parks Foundation Executive Director Karen Daubert as co-chair in order to help save the levy campaign. Rasmussen says that it was Daubert that "saved the day" for the levy despite McGinn receiving credit.^[12] McGinn has also been accused of "push polling" with robo calls to Seattle residents. His opponent Joe Mallahan called the survey (pdf) about the proposed Alaska Way Viaduct "dishonest" but McGinn says the poll was legitimate research.^[28]

Policy positions

Taxes and budget

2011

Facing a substantial deficit, McGinn has called for new taxes and the raising of existing taxes and fees in 2010 and 2011, mainly targeting drivers. McGinn has asked for a higher car tab tax and a mandatory doubling of the parking lot tax,^[29] a $241 million levy to replace the city's seawall two years early and almost doubling the city's education levy to $231 million.^[30] Despite campaign promises of more neighborhood control of parking rates,^[13] he has also pushed for a mandatory, city directed increase in parking fees in several neighborhoods to $4 an hour.^[31] He has allocated a $13 million funding increase for bicycle and pedestrian projects derived from new taxes on motorists. At the same time, he pushed for reduced funding in road maintenance and widespread cuts in basics such as police and library services. His increased funding of pedestrian and bicycle projects during a time of general cuts has raised criticism of his budgetary priorities.^[32] In all McGinn's budget slashed $67 million from various areas by laying off 300 employees, reducing hours at community centers, cutting park maintenance, raising fees and wage reductions from union workers.^[33]

2012

McGinn proposed deferring some maintenance on roads and buildings and across the board cuts into the 2012 fiscal year, alerting police, fire and human-services departments to prepare for three to six percent cuts and all other departments for four to eight percent cuts, in order to close a $17 million funding gap.^[33] In other areas McGinn proposed funding increases. Responding to a letter from Seattle Gay News, and at the recommendation of the city government's Seattle Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Commission, McGinn stated he will work to change current city health benefits packages to make sure the city pays for any transgendered employees sex change operations. The Commission called the operations "a medical necessity" and McGinn asserts that the issue is about fairness and not costs.^[34] City Budget Director Beth Goldberg states that the city faces several long-term financial challenges including rising costs for employee health care and maintaining its retirement fund.^[33] McGinn also created a new position at city hall for controversial former Cascade Bicycle Club lobbyist David Hiller at $95,000 a year after giving a controversial $21,000 raise to his new communications director, Beth Hester, whose position now makes $120,000 a year.^[35][36][37]

Education

McGinn campaigned on removing control of Seattle schools from local, elected school boards and placing it under the purview of appointed officials from City Hall.^[13] After winning election he forwarded a new education levy which would raise $115 million in additional taxes for the Seattle Public School District but be placed under the control of City Hall.^[38][39] McGinn asserts that the doubling of the levy is necessary to get additional money to programs serving low-income and minority families.^[40] The levy would also expand early education and kindergartens, extra elementary school programs for high poverty areas, support for struggling students transitioning from middle to high school and academic, career and college planning for at risk high school students.^[39] The Seattle Times characterized the size of the tax hike to be "tone deaf" to the economic realities of voters.^[38] Acknowledging the size of the levy as a concern the Seattle City Council still voted unanimously to forward the mayor's levy proposal to voters with Tim Burgess, the Council's lead on the levy, saying its size "matched the needs" of Seattle's children.^[39][41]

Marijuana

McGinn supports the legalization and taxation of marijuana, saying on KUOW-FM, "We recognize that, you know, like alcohol, it's something that should be regulated, not treated as a criminal activity. And I think that's where the citizens of Seattle want us to go." He believes marijuana can be used as a cash crop to offset the city's financial problems.^[42][43] McGinn called for an executive review of Seattle's law enforcement policy in regard to marijuana after a controversial police raid on a medical marijuana user who was growing plants in his home. He has said that he believes the country is in a time of transition in regard to marijuana policy citing California as a "social bellwether'.^[44]

In July 2011, McGinn signed a medical marijuana bill similar to one rejected by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire. The bill allows for the licensing of marijuana dispensaries within Seattle.^[45]

Transportation

McGinn is a proponent of reducing car ridership and increasing bicycling, walking, and public transportation. McGinn has proposed raising taxes on car transportation. He has been described as "philosophically anti-car" and even conducting a "war on cars".^[46][47][48] McGinn described the idea of a war on cars as "silly" and stated his transportation policy is focused on reducing the number of cars in Seattle and expanding biking, walking and public transit.^[49] McGinn asserts that the only way to make people change their behavior is to make it more difficult for them to drive and park.^[50] Since his time as a neighborhood activist in Greenwood, to his current position as Mayor, McGinn has pushed for the removal of car lanes and on-street parking around the city in favor of bus and bike lanes. McGinn also supports the reduction of lanes dedicated to vehicular traffic within the city through "road diets".^[51] These programs convert four lanes of traffic into two lanes, using the added space from lane reductions for the inclusion of bike lanes and a center turn lane. Some of these programs have been well received as improving safety for bicyclists and lowering vehicle speeds while others have been opposed as hurting local business and being inappropriate for arterial routes.^[51]

McGinn opposes the currently planned replacement of the 520 floating bridge that connects Seattle to Bellevue and Redmond. McGinn is trying to stop the plan, which calls for six lanes instead of the current four, citing his opposition to building new roads.^[52] McGinn opposes adding any traffic capacity and has stated his desire to see the additional capacity planned now instead be used as transit only lanes. He also supports tolling on the bridge in order to further diminish car usage.^[53]

Down in the polls during the final days of his campaign for Mayor McGinn came out with a promise not to use his position as Mayor to obstruct the construction of the deep bore tunnel replacement of the Alaska Way Viaduct. Since taking office McGinn has consistently made efforts to stop its construction and has pledged to use his mayoral veto to stop the project.^[54][55] Citing potential cost overruns McGinn has proposed a surface street replacement of the viaduct and the reduction of cars on that portion of the Highway 99 corridor from 105,000 to 50,000 per weekday.^[56] McGinn claims that the lost traffic capacity could be offset by diverting more cars to Interstate 5, increased transit use, walking, biking and drivers staying home. In February 2011, when the Seattle City Council voted 8-1 to sign an agreement allowing the tunnel project to proceed, McGinn used his Mayoral veto.^[57] The City Council then overrode his veto, again 8-1.^[58] After the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan McGinn, citing the quake, called for the viaduct to be pulled down a year early. No plan to replace or mitigate the lost traffic capacity was put forward.^[59] The call is opposed by some businesses and transportation experts. The president of Ballard's North Seattle Industrial Association called the likely fallout of early closure "a horror show" citing the corridor's role as the primary arterial for workers, equipment and supplies between manufacturers along Seattle's two key manufacturing zones, the Duwamish Waterway and along the Lake Washington Ship Canal.^[60] Washington's State's Department of Transportation viaduct program administrator also opposed the idea saying, "To simply close the viaduct without a reasonable replacement in place would be very damaging to the city of Seattle economically. To start over now and pursue a new alternative would delay the overall project schedule. The viaduct is just as vulnerable as it was before the earthquake in Japan.”^[61]

After having his veto on the tunnel overridden McGinn called for a referendum challenging the tunnel. Several of his staff members took temporary leaves of absence to work on the anti-tunnel campaign and McGinn and his wife both donated money.^[62] He called for others to support the measure and donate money.^[62] After the campaign turned in 29,000 signatures,^[63] Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, asked the King County Superior Court to review whether the tunnel agreement was administrative or legislative in nature.^[64] It is the position of Holmes' office that the agreement is administrative in nature and so not eligible for a referendum.^[65] Washington State Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond said that delays and court costs associated with the referendum will cost the city $54 million and Ron Paananen, the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project administrator, says should it succeed it will cost the city over $1 billion.^[66][67] Fellow tunnel opponent City Councilman Mike O'Brien said that, when looked at a different way, cancelling the tunnel would save the city $700 million.^[68]

McGinn advocates expanding Light rail in Seattle^[42] calling for a public vote in 2011 to raise taxes for a new light rail line for the western side of the city, including Ballard, Interbay, Queen Anne, Belltown, Downtown, West Seattle, and possibly Fremont.^[69]

In May 2011 McGinn hired controversial former Cascade Bicycle Club lobbyist David Hiller as his transportation adviser. The new position will have a starting salary of $95,000 a year.^[35][70] Hiller, sparked controversy with his previous comments including an interview about drivers who injure or kill bicyclists saying, "I'd love to hang these people up by their toenails at the edge of town and paint 'killer' across their chest and let them hang there until the buzzards peck their eyes out." The creation of the new position has also generated controversy as it coincides with across the board budget cuts for other departments.^[71][72]

Social welfare and public safety

As both a candidate and a mayor, McGinn supported his predecessor's attempts to ban all guns from parks and other public places.^[73] After the King County Superior Court overturned the gun ban, for being in violation of state law, McGinn petitioned for the state legislature to change the law.^[74]

After a series of controversial police actions McGinn laid out in his State of the City address that there was "no room" for police officers in Seattle who did not share his administration's views on race and social justice. The Seattle Police Officer's Guild spokesperson called the position "scary".^[75] Later, in the aftermath of the shooting of a transient woodcarver John T. Willimas by a Seattle police officer, McGinn declared February 27 to be "John T. WIlliams Day."^[76] The declaration was met with a variety of reactions from activists, the media and community groups. Some media figures and police officers complained that honoring a man with a lengthy criminal record who had been recorded threatening the lives of police officers was inappropriate^[77][78] and others claimed the declaration was political pandering designed to distract from perceived failures in his leadership.^[79] Conversely many members of the community and the Williams family expressed gratitude and John Diaz, Seattle Chief of Police, declared the invitation to the event the be "an honor."^[77]

In his first two years as mayor, McGinn spearheaded a new program in the Seattle Police Department to expand foot patrols around entertainment venues and nightlife hot spots during the summer, predominantly in the Belltown neighborhood. The program came in response to several early morning shootings outside bars and nightclubs. The emphasis of the program is to preempt crime in the area on evenings and weekends.^[80] Additional neighborhoods targeted for increased patrols are Alki beach and the Greek Row around the University of Washington.^[81]

McGinn and a panel of activists for the homeless, appointed by him, have called for the creation of a permanent free housing facility for the homeless on city land. The panel forwarded seven different locations for the mayor's consideration.^[82] After initially choosing a site in the Georgetown neighborhood McGinn elected to have the old Fire Station 39 in Lake City act as the site for a period of four to six months.^[83] In March 2011 the City Council rejected McGinn's plan for the permanent facility in Georgetown citing the mayor's failure to secure the environmental review required by state law in order to make the necessary zoning changes. McGinn's criticized the Council and tried to draw a parallel to the Council's decision on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Tunnel project. The facility is expected to cost approximately a half million dollars a year.^[84]

McGinn vetoed a ban on aggressive panhandling which was passed by the Seattle city council. The law was designed to cut down on aggressive panhandlers using intimidating language and gestures, begging at ATMs, repeatedly soliciting people who have already said "no" or blocking people's path while soliciting money.^[85][86] He cited concerns about free speech rights, the panhandlers not having access to lawyers, and that the bill could compel people into mental health and drug treatment programs instead of what he called the "normal civil commitment process."^[87]

Polling

In February of 2010, two months after his election, McGinn's job approval was polled by SurveyUSA at 40% approve, 34% disapprove with 27% unsure.^[88] By July, in a KING 5 poll, his approval had risen to 45% with 38% disapproving and 17% unsure.^[89] By March 2011 a poll by Elway Research showed dissatisfaction with his performance across multiple criteria^[90] and put public opinion of his job as mayor at 2-1 negative with 4% calling his performance "excellent" and 27% calling it "poor".^[91][92] A poll published by EMC Research in June 2011 showed a further eroding of support with a job approval rating of 33% and a disapproval rating of 65% in March. The same poll conducted in June showed a job approval of 23% and a disapproval of 73%, an 18 point shift.^[93][94]

See also

• Seattle mayoral election, 2009
• Greenwood, Seattle
• Sierra Club

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External links

• Biking to Work with Seattle’s Mayor Mike McGinn - Video by Streetfilms
• CityMayors profile

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Preceded by Greg Nickels	Mayor of Seattle 2010 –	Succeeded by Incumbent

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Name	Macginn, Michael
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Date of birth	December 17, 1959
Place of birth	Long Island, New York
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