Sam Bee on women who vote against sports

[mominatrix]

AH! Seattle politics!


So... there's this move to build a new arena (we have two fairly new stadiums in the city, one for baseball, the other for football/soccer, but I digress) in order to lure the NBA back into town. The Sonics are gone, and people cry and weep, and... ignore the WNBA Storm, but I digress again.


anyway... they wanted to build this stadium. Without, mind you, any team to.... yanno... PLAY THERE.



here's some actual news info on the $200M deal:

www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/new-mariners-ceo-calls-potential-sodo-arena-big-ugly-house-right-at-the-end-of-your-driveway/



So, the City Council had to vote up or down on the plan. They voted no.
5-4
On gender lines.
That's right, the 5 women voted for no sports arena, while the 4 men did.
...and the interwebs exploded.



Enter Sam Bee. Who introduces the women of the Seattle City Council as the Seattle Seawards.  

samanthabee.com/episode/12/clip/the-seattle-seawards/

Watch. Love.


EDIT... There's some hardcore NSFW language in there!!!!

[rosiebear]

God, I love her.

[7costanza]

I saw this last night and thought it was great. However, I really want the Sonics back.

It's pretty lame that we would have to build a stadium before getting a team (NBA or NHL). I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[aurora]

Well done, Sam Bee. Well done.

[tiramisu]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't get that seawards = c-words until she said it a couple times. Love this piece!

[CrazyLucky]

That was awesome. People are assholes.

[SwimDeep]

She rocks! I love everything about this