I live in Washington. I represent Safeco as my primary company. Safeco made some very bad decisions in the late 90\’s… buying American States from Lincoln National was one! Safeco needed an executive that could make the very hard decisions to turn the sinking ship around. I didn\’t like all the decisions, but Mike did a great job. He has my vote.
Interesting……..Safeco would employ a man as President of the Safeco, whom they would not under normal underwriting circumstances, insure. Despite those of us who are loyal Safeco agencies having many similar examples of publicly elected officials who have encountered similar \’lapses\’ in judgment, the underwriters would \’cut their throats\’ and we would end up placing them in the Assigned Risk pools or other third rate insurance companies who specialize in writing these poor souls who made similar mistakes. What a business, what a country!
look, DUI is something that anyone of us can \’earn\’ at any given time. only the ones who drink not can be excused. if you take a drink don\’t tell me that there wasn\’t a time when you drove a bit buzzed. buzzed=drunk.
half of the country is divorced. that\’s no real shortcoming, i am divorced once and happily married now. good thing that i did divorce!
Mike turned Safeco around like no other could, layoffs are one of the primary tools of a \’fixer\’ CEO. i know mike personally, he is one of the most sharp and straightforward people i\’ve met. i believe he\’ll do what he has to as a politician and mingle among the best of them. he would\’ve had my vote, had i lived in washington.
Terry, at the time Mike took over the helm at Safeco he was perfectly insurable. The DUI was in 1993. He went deferred. There was no record of it, and even if it was on record he didn\’t come to work at Safeco until after 2000. A DUI 7+ years in the past, along with a good credit score and he\’s eligible for preferred!
Mike, you truly belong in politics because theres no other place for you to go with the millions of dollars you\’ve taken as so-called severance pay, fired hard working people and never worried once if their children went to bed hungry. For one day, you and George Bush need to trade places with the average hard working American.
Well, this is politics at it best! \”Mike\” can\’t get ahead on the issues so he pulls a stunt like this Mea Culpa!
DUI? Bif Whoop!
Divorced? Aren\’t we all?
Tell you what fellow Washingtonians, if I wanted Ted Stevens of AK as my senator, I\’d move up north. Don\’t let Stevens buy himself another clone seat.
Vote for Cantwell to preserve our independence.
What I find most disconcerting is the campaign ad in \’88 where he knowingly and maliciously slandered the democratic challenger on false charges and even when his claims were rejected, continued to use these obvious lies.
Thanks for the honestly Mike but just b/c you \”came clean\” doesn\’t mean that I should drop to my knees and start kissing your feet.
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Good honest answers Mike! Good Job!
Way to lay off those 1200 people so that you could save the company!
What an ego! you will be a perfect politician
I live in Washington. I represent Safeco as my primary company. Safeco made some very bad decisions in the late 90\’s… buying American States from Lincoln National was one! Safeco needed an executive that could make the very hard decisions to turn the sinking ship around. I didn\’t like all the decisions, but Mike did a great job. He has my vote.
Interesting……..Safeco would employ a man as President of the Safeco, whom they would not under normal underwriting circumstances, insure. Despite those of us who are loyal Safeco agencies having many similar examples of publicly elected officials who have encountered similar \’lapses\’ in judgment, the underwriters would \’cut their throats\’ and we would end up placing them in the Assigned Risk pools or other third rate insurance companies who specialize in writing these poor souls who made similar mistakes. What a business, what a country!
look, DUI is something that anyone of us can \’earn\’ at any given time. only the ones who drink not can be excused. if you take a drink don\’t tell me that there wasn\’t a time when you drove a bit buzzed. buzzed=drunk.
half of the country is divorced. that\’s no real shortcoming, i am divorced once and happily married now. good thing that i did divorce!
Mike turned Safeco around like no other could, layoffs are one of the primary tools of a \’fixer\’ CEO. i know mike personally, he is one of the most sharp and straightforward people i\’ve met. i believe he\’ll do what he has to as a politician and mingle among the best of them. he would\’ve had my vote, had i lived in washington.
Way to go….from lobbyist to insurance company president…lay off 1200 people and pocket $28 million…only in America.
Terry, at the time Mike took over the helm at Safeco he was perfectly insurable. The DUI was in 1993. He went deferred. There was no record of it, and even if it was on record he didn\’t come to work at Safeco until after 2000. A DUI 7+ years in the past, along with a good credit score and he\’s eligible for preferred!
Mike, you truly belong in politics because theres no other place for you to go with the millions of dollars you\’ve taken as so-called severance pay, fired hard working people and never worried once if their children went to bed hungry. For one day, you and George Bush need to trade places with the average hard working American.
Well, this is politics at it best! \”Mike\” can\’t get ahead on the issues so he pulls a stunt like this Mea Culpa!
DUI? Bif Whoop!
Divorced? Aren\’t we all?
Tell you what fellow Washingtonians, if I wanted Ted Stevens of AK as my senator, I\’d move up north. Don\’t let Stevens buy himself another clone seat.
Vote for Cantwell to preserve our independence.
What I find most disconcerting is the campaign ad in \’88 where he knowingly and maliciously slandered the democratic challenger on false charges and even when his claims were rejected, continued to use these obvious lies.
Thanks for the honestly Mike but just b/c you \”came clean\” doesn\’t mean that I should drop to my knees and start kissing your feet.