[epithermal]

""It's a disturbing precedent that King County approved the ad in the first place and then gave in to public pressure on the content of the ad," he said."

Odd, usually King County goes out of its way to support fringe groups and not the public. I wonder what they are planning?

[rbg81]

It was the posting of the counter-ads (about Hamas) that really made them nervous. They would not have allowed those, but then would have been exposed for the anti-semites that they are.

[Track9]

The simple fact is they were willing to print the hate propaganda but not the counter adds which depicted reality so they pulled both so they wouldn’t be accused of being America hating racists.. which they are.

[Ganndy]

SEATLE

It is the sole reason I won't shop at Starbucks...the Leftist Latte drinkin' socialists!
Why would I want to support their Corporate Office - while it is still in Seattle?
Move 'em to Texas and we will turn 'em around!
Oh! and we get 4 more congressmen to offset their one man gain!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why does an agency of government run a bus company ?

[MarMema]

Now they are running them again, apparently.

But a First Amendment lawyer who represents KIRO 7 and other media outlets said King County is constrained by the Constitution. "To the extent that the buses are public forums, the county can't simply say these are ads we don't want because they are too controversial," Bruce Johnson said.