Seattle City Council Members Visit New York to Warn About Amazon HQ2

Re:Seattle City Council Members Visit New York to Warn About... by jkravitz61 on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:40PM (#18886187)

How common is it for City Council members to travel to cities across the US? As a Seattleite I find it a massive waste of taxpayer money to go fund Lisa Herbold's NY homecoming (she is from NY).

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Re:Seattle City Council Members Visit New York to Warn About... by subway on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:04PM (#18886984)

I was expecting it to be Sawant out preaching the evils of Amazon... That said, it seems especially silly for Seattle to think Amazon's impact on NYC will be anything like what happened in Seattle.

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Re:Seattle City Council Members Visit New York to Warn About... by Latteland on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:39PM (#18886742)

I'm from Seattle too. It should be the case that the organization they were speaking to paid for their travel costs, that worker's union, not seattle. Why would seattle pay for them to travel there?

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