At least in the Seattle area, he did a huge amount for the community : Seahawks owner, Museum of Pop Culture, developed South Lake Union from a dump into a high tech business park, Children’s Hospital donations, IT Building on the U of Wa, The Flying Heritage and Armor Collection, and on and on. And he seemed to stay off the radar politically.
I hope he had a good Estate Lawyer.
He did a lot for Seattle. Now they will make a grab for his Billion$.
He was a gun-grabber. Most recently he donated $1MM to the latest gun-grabbing initiative in Washington state (I-1639)
Of course he did some bad. He put lots of money into the anti-gun initiative a few years ago (now I can't even give a gun to my son to borrow without filing paperwork with the feds!).
He put $1 million towards this fall's initiative that will ban sales of “assualt weapons” most deer rifles (including tube fed .22s) to folks under the age of 21, mandates gun safes in the home, safety classes every five years if you want to buy a gun, etc. (30+ pages long!!)
And I'm guessing that it will pass - mob rule of the Seattle liberals.