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[Ron] Sims attacks critic of office move
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 09, 2006 02:59pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Thursday, March 9, 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Turning up the heat in his simmering dispute with the King County Council, County Executive Ron Sims has written the council to register his "extreme displeasure" with what he calls "unsupportable ... untrue ... (and) unacceptable" statements by a council staff analyst challenging Sims' proposal to move his office into a new public building downtown.
"That analyst, David Layton, has not only provided false information to the (council's capital budget) committee, but has also directly impugned my integrity ... in the process," Sims wrote in his letter to the council, dated Tuesday.
The dust-up centers on Sims' desire to move his office in 2007 from leased space in the Columbia Center skyscraper to the top floors of the $100 million office building the county plans to construct at Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street.
Committee Chairman Bob Ferguson has said Sims belongs in "the people's building" -- the courthouse -- which is where most of Sims' fellow elected officials have their offices: the council members, prosecuting attorney and sheriff. And council Chairman Larry Phillips -- like Sims and Ferguson, a Seattle Democrat -- has said it was clearly understood no elected officials would occupy the new building. |
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