HQ2 Frontlash Begins: The Answer Is More Housing, Some Built By Amazon
“Having watched Seattle’s backlash against success by Amazon with a failed effort to pass a tax on jobs, it doesn’t surprise me to see a frontlash — the outrage before a decision is made and implemented as opposed to after — stoked by the media with lots of ‘person on the street interviews.’ It’s not easy to see local and national reporters scrambling out the doors of their offices pencils and microphones in hand to ask people, ‘how do you feel about all these people with high paying jobs being dropped into your city?’”