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| | Forced Unity | News | City | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper |
 | | County Executive Ron Sims may have done the dirty work--axing Rob McKenna from the Sound Transit Board on December 28--but the cheesy political move really represents the first rumblings of the Nickels era. |
 | | Offing McKenna, a Republican King County council member from Bellevue, set the plate for new Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels' top priority: making sure Sound Transit's light-rail project gets $500 million from the federal government. |
 | | McKenna, 39, was an outspoken Sound Transit critic (not to mention a dissenting vote against the agency's latest awkward revision of the light-rail plan: one-third shorter, $500 million more expensive, three years late, and nearly double the cost per rider, grouses McKenna). |
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