Port of Seattle Candidate has ties to corrupt contractor

Hi all y'all fellow Seattlites! My first post in the Washington forum!

I find it interesting that the Military and Intellegence industrial complex is working to get it's claws into our local institutions:

Source: The Port Observer

Gael Tarleton and SAIC – An Overview
By Jeff Upthegrove

Port of Seattle Commission candidate Gail Tarleton says she wants to restore accountability and transparency to the Port. But Tarleton’s own involvement with a ports contractor raises troubling questions about her own ties to special interests.

• Gael Tarleton’s long time former employer (1990-2002), Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), a large contractor for the U.S. defense and intelligence communities, is in the business of selling multi-million dollar gamma ray container nuclear and biological scanning equipment to ports around the world. In recent years SAIC has been aggressively courting U.S. Ports in an attempt to sell this equipment.

• Gael Tarleton is a shareholder in SAIC and has a personal financial interest in SAIC’s business success.

• More than 30 of Gael Tarleton’s top contributors are current or former executives of SAIC, including SAIC’s lobbyist and SAIC’s controversial founder, Dr. J Robert Beyster, who is Tarleton’s largest contributor. SAIC related contributions account for more than 20% of Gael Tarrleton’s money raised as of the last PDC reporting period...

http://www.portobserver.com/26.html

More on SAIC:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7892&printsafe=1

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7889&printsafe=1

I hate voting for any Port of Seattle candidate because I think they're all a bunch of crooks!

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It's the most corrupt local agency by far! There are a few good candidates from time to time, but most are very lame and are corporate stooges. The incumbent in this race, Bob Edwards, is corrupt scum too. The best candidate in my view is Jack Block Jr. But he's in the pocket of the Longshorman's Union. And he's raised way less money and isn't a very strong campaigner. But I think he's the least of the evils. At least Union stooges are stooging for working people and not corporations. Or Spy agencies.