The American citizenship that Vance seemed to suggest would be one with tiers, based on one’s genealogy in America. The earlier your family became American, even better with an ancestral home and a cemetery plot, the more American you are, and more rights you have in criticizing America.
These 135 words weigh a ton. “Absolutely and entirely” leave no wiggle room. Nor does “without any mental reservation.” And then there’s defending the Constitution and laws “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Of the three Seattle City Council seats up for election, Position 9, the at-large seat currently held by council president Sara Nelson, seems most threatened. Challenger Dionne Foster, a city policy advisor, scored 54 percent to Nelson’s 39 percent.
