This is like electing a pop star president of their own fan club.  Big Shock. 

Not content with telling kids Santa was going to die, now he is the head cheese for the biggest waster of tax payer money in western Washington.  I am speaking of the Light Rail project that was billions overbudget before it broke ground, does nothing to relive traffic problems, and doesnt go where the people need it to.

And as Greg is a HUGE fan of transit and wasting money, this should mean lots of new taxes and even more waste.

Hoorrah!

This is just one more reason to oppose Sound Transit.

Mayor voted to lead Sound Transit board

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels was unanimously elected chairman of the Sound Transit board for a two-year term.

Nickels, 52, is a longtime advocate of the light rail system the agency is building.

As chairman, he will preside at meetings of the agency's 18-member board of elected public officials and will be its chief link to Chief Executive Officer Joni Earl. His two-year term will include the scheduled December 2009 opening of the 15.7-mile light rail system between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport.

Nickels became a member of the board as a King County councilman when it was organized in 1993 and chaired its finance committee from 1993 to 2001.

Sound Transit, based in Seattle, has 377 employees and 2007 budgets of $162 million for operations and $890 million for capital investments.

It operates a regional bus system and Sounder commuter trains linking Seattle to Tacoma and Everett. Its new light rail system is 80 percent complete.

Nickels replaces as chairman Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg, who remains on the board.

The board, in action this week, also named two new vice chairs: Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon and Lakewood Mayor Claudia Thomas.

Truly, the inmates run the asylum….