There is a huge scandal brewing, and it doesn't seem like local media is putting all the pieces together quite yet. But they're close. Dow Constantine just got a massive raise and a $30,000 bonus from @SoundTransit for delivering a light rail extension in time for the World Cup in Seattle.
Well, as reported earlier this month, that extension was killing federally protected fish. But according to new reporting from @KOMONews, Sound Transit knew way back in December 2025 that the extension was electrocuting fish and did nothing about it.
"The transit agency said it only learned of the dead fish in August. Alex Quibell, an electrician who worked on the Crosslake Connection, said photos of their carcasses were shown to members of the Sound Transit team in December, but the warnings went nowhere."
Divers wet back months later and noticed the problem got worse. There were dead fish in PILES.
"We knew about it, it was brought up to Sound Transit, and it was just dead silence."
"We brought this up, there are fish dying, there are piles of dead fish on the ground."
Why did the warnings go nowhere?
Could it be that Dow's bonus and raise were riding on opening the line? Did Sound Transit sweep the problem under the rug to meet their deadline?
Keep in mind, protecting fish in Washington state is serious (and expensive) business. We've ripped out millions of dollars of infrastructure in recent years as part of a court-ordered culvert replacement program that has cost taxpayers OVER $5.2 billion.
Barnes was a bad hire. But he's being sacrificed to divert attention from where it should squarely rest; at the feet of the Governor and the Mayor.
The Mayor's never had a real job, and it shows. Playtime is over. Her lack of capability is endangering lives now.
And no one has had a bigger hand in state, county, and city politics than Governor Ferguson himself. In the wake of a massive failure to protect citizens in Seattle, he has added zero leadership and even less insight. He's constructed the gun-grabbing laws that punish law abiding citizens, while the criminal class ignores them.
He "promised" to hire more law enforcement officers during his campaign, which has resulted in a whole 45 officers statewide.
When the city and the state needed a clear voice, he stood nearly out of the frame at the next day press conference staring at his shoes. Shameful.
@CynicalPublius Our local news station uses the phrase "stand for truth". I had watched that station my entire life for local news. They suddenly became a parrot for the national news. The slogan should be "stand for our version of the truth".
People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%.
He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same.
The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after the election.
The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022.
It’s amazing what happens when election fraud is cleaned up.