Monorail Opposition--A Jewish Conspiracy?
Whoever hired the caterer for the reelection party of Seattle Monorail Board member Cindi Laws, I hope you can get your deposit back.
Laws reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks at a meeting of the King County Labor Council on Wednesday.
There are places in this world where one can make anti-Semitic remarks with impunity. Klan conclaves. Pig-pickins. Germany.
But not labor council meetings.
Marc Auerbach and Neil Safran--both labor council members, both Jewish--took copious notes and recounted them for the P-I:
Laws said that 75 percent of the money spent on last year's unsuccessful monorail-recall ballot measure came from the "Jewish community."
"Without making it sound anti-Semitic, overwhelmingly the Second Avenue property owners ... they are very effective if you get into their group."
"If you get into their group"...is she thinking about converting?
When Laws attempted to backtrack, she made things worse:
Interviewers said Laws apologized and, in trying to explain her remarks, said, "It probably is a poor reference," but that Joel Horn, former executive director of the Seattle Monorail Project, used to joke that he and another staffer were the only Jews who supported the project.
They said she went on to say that Horn would refer to the opposition as "Jews Against the Monorail," but that she was not anti-Semitic and that she once was engaged to a Jew.
Las Vegas will no longer give odds on Laws' chances for winning reelection to the Monorail Board. If being an incumbent on that incompetent panel isn't enough of a handicap, perceived anti-Semitism surely will be.
On the bright side, Laws' opponent, Beth Goldberg, is Jewish, so Laws has surely wrapped up at least one endorsement.
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