The Melon Interviews: Mike Lonergan
by Electric Elliot
Yesterday, The Melon sat down with candidate for Pierce County Executive Mike Lonergan. In our extended, 52 minute interview, we covered a range of topics, from domestic partnership benefits to transit and spending issues. Mike Lonergan is a nearly seven year veteran of the Tacoma City Council and has served on numerous local boards. Find out more about Mike at his website: http://electmike2008.org
This interview with Mike Lonergan is part 2 of 4 in our Pierce County Executive Candidate Interviews. A couple months ago we spoke with Calvin Goings. His interview can be found here.
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September 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Attacked Calvin and Bunney, all but endorsed Pat as his second choice, skirted the domestic partnership issue with the same Republican thinking we’ve seen time and again when this issue comes up. If Lonergan is really concerned with saving money and being fiscally conservative, then it will ultimately cost Tacoma less money to provide health benefits to gay couples than it would to otherwise lose talented individuals to other cities or risk getting suited on the basis of discrimination.
Otherwise, a genuinely nice guy with a good head full of good ideas. He might be my second choice, we’ll see.
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September 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Lonergan panders to the Christian right and he doesn’t care about your civil liberties. Don’t vote for him.
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September 18th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
What makes you say that @anne-o-nimmity? Do you have any examples?
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
One time I saw Mike Lonergan on the freeway overpass waving at passing cars and holding his sign. It made my day.
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September 20th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Elliot, best interview yet!!! I especially liked your smooth way of bringing him back to the gay rights issue. I have to say, I do respect his forthright manner and honesty, even when he KNOWS Tacoma, and most of Pierce county, for that matter, is in favor of creating equality between gays and lesbians and heterosexuals. Most politicians would back down on that issue, or skirt it, or gracefully change the subject to commonalities. Instead, he states his platformed opinion. I disagree with him, but kudos for that, at least!
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