Actually I was part of the Cedar County movement a few years back where we rural folk tried to create a new county out of the rural parts of King County. We did it by the book (followed the state constitution to the letter), and the Secretary of State (a Liberal Republican) refused to accept our valid thousands of signatures. We had to sue the state and the State Supreme Court created whole new law as to how a new county must be created. We were told that the downtown Seattle power structure gave their (old political hack) buddies on the State Supreme Court orders not to dare let us split off. It's the rural areas that contribute the millions of tax dollars that fund all the downtown schemes. Without the rural area, they'd lose their tax base. King County is the 15th largest county in the U.S. and should be split into SEVERAL new counties, but under the new laws the Supreme Court wrote, it will be virtually impossible to ever break King County up now.
As a side note, I just did a search on www.opensecrets.com to see who here in the area east of Lake Washington was contributing to, and learned one thing insteresting. Jim Sinegal and Jeff Brotman (founders of Costco) contribute the MAXIMUM amount to every single Dimocrat they can find. Talk about rabid-foaming-at-the-mouth Libs, looks like these two are personally funding our overthrow. That's the end of shopping at Costco for me!
As for the intelligence of Seattleites, Seattle has given us Baghdad Jim McDermott, Patti Osama Mamma Murray, Maria Cant-do-well, Ron Sims, Christine Gregoire, and a whole assortment of lesser luminaries.
Of major importance to Freepers, The State Republican party is working to just get one more Republican vote per precinct. Slade Gorton (RINO) lost his senate seat to Maria Cantwell by just one vote per precinct. Our local Republicans are a sorry lot, but at least they're better than anything the Dems offer up.
In the interests of accuracy, I should point out that both of these people came from (Fort) Shoreline, my current home.
I would give just about anything to break off from King County right now. This Tent City thing, and the 65/10 (a/k/a What's Ours Is Ours, and What's Yours Is Ours) stuff is too much for me. I can't take it anymore. I've even gone house shopping in Snohomish county with a realtor friend.