Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans

[basquebromance]

Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans

Remember when Amazon threatened to back out of a huge new Seattle tower if the city passed its head tax? The head tax was repealed, and now Amazon is backing out anyway

 

[justoffal]

Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans

Remember when Amazon threatened to back out of a huge new Seattle tower if the city passed its head tax? The head tax was repealed, and now Amazon is backing out anyway

The Seattle city council has been pretty Nasty to Bezos over the past couple years.
Nasty to Business in General.

Jo

 

[Claudette]

They aren't to smart. Amazon provided tax money and loads of jobs.

They can come to my state, Florida. I'd bet the State Govt. would make a good deal with them for that many jobs.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

The Seattle city council has been pretty Nasty to Bezos over the past couple years.
Nasty to Business in General.

Jo

Seattle...
Just like San Francisco and New York, a city in the hands of leftist ideologues.

 

[Zorro!]

Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans

Remember when Amazon threatened to back out of a huge new Seattle tower if the city passed its head tax? The head tax was repealed, and now Amazon is backing out anyway

The Seattle city council has been pretty Nasty to Bezos over the past couple years.
Nasty to Business in General.

Jo

And they are working to remedy that.

Amazon Is Spending Big to Oust Seattle’s Socialist Council Member.

The tech giant has poured an unprecedented $1.45 million into dump deranged Socialists like Kshama Sawant

The tech giant has now poured an unprecedented $1.45 million into the local elections, and ballots are being sent to voters this week.

Sawant hates corporations. She even called Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos the “enemy” at a City Council meeting.

“What’s at stake this year is who gets to run Seattle, Amazon and big business and the Chamber of Commerce, or working people,” Sawant said at Squirrel Chops, a socialist-owned coffee shop just blocks from her home.

Specifically, she is fighting for rent control, an expansion of affordable housing, and a transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. She was behind the “head tax,” a controversial, per-employee tax on large corporations that was repealed last year, less than a month after it was passed, tin-eared and self-righteous as socialists tend to be, she said she “would proudly push for it again.”

In the August primary to whittle the vote down to two candidates, Sawant won with 37 percent to Orion’s 22 percent. But since then, The Seattle Times endorsed Orion in a scathing editorial on Sawant’s leadership. “Seattle voters who love self-promoting, slogan-tossing, poor-performing politicians are in luck,” the piece said. “Not just because Donald Trump is president, but because Kshama Sawant squeaked through the primary, in pursuit of another City Council term.”

Ouch!

She describes herself as a "woman of color" but the white Orion checkmates her color and gender advantage with his glowing LGBTQ credentials. He’s known for creating PrideFest Capitol Hill.

"What council member Sawant is really interested in is growing this national movement for the Socialist Alternative party.”

 

[Papageorgio]

Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans

Remember when Amazon threatened to back out of a huge new Seattle tower if the city passed its head tax? The head tax was repealed, and now Amazon is backing out anyway

Seattle is not business friendly. They seem to fight business at every turn.