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Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow. NEWS TIP: jchoe@discovery.org, *Vids branded "DI" represent Discovery Institute. Other views expressed are my own.

Feb 12, 2023, 6 tweets

#BREAKING: Super Bowl Sunday encampment inferno on @wsdot property, victimizing #Chinatown-ID again. No sign of @CMTammyMorales coming out to support her dist. after recent string of homeless related fires. Where is @KC_RHA+Marc Dones? @MayorofSeattle @GovInslee @kcexec #Seattle

SUSPECTED METH LAB: Last Thursday, explosion on @wsdot property in #Chinatown-ID. Once again @CMTammyMorales MIA. Auto body shop owner nearby is shocked @KC_RHA's Marc Dones says homeless will only be moved if "permanent housing solution" is available. #Seattle @MayorofSeattle

MASSIVE INFERNO: Feb 3 another camp on @wsdot property up in smoke in #Chinatown-ID. Notice a theme here? State ignores problems in this minority community. @CMTammyMorales MIA. Where is the equity lens for Asian Americans? #Seattle @GovInslee @KC_RHA

TONE DEAF: Parents RAGED on @KC_RHA CEO Marc Dones earlier in week about lingering homeless encampments. Dones went on to say WA state law makers put in a funding requirement that says homeless can only be moved if there is a "permanent housing solution."

MINI CAMPS: Tents+ structures remain in #Chinatown-ID on @wsdot property. Some have been here for more than year. Others popped up after massive 10th & Dearborn sweep few months ago.
@KC_RHA @GovInslee @WAStateCommerce @CMTammyMorales #Seattle

NOV 2022: @wsdot Secretary of Transportation Roger Millar said, "When we see something starting, we get in and stop it." 3 months later, structure he was referring to in #Chinatown-ID is still there. BTW, watch @GovInslee throw Roger under the bus. 🙃

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