{"id":3961664,"date":"2024-06-03T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/?p=3961664"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:33:00","slug":"ross-if-popularity-to-immunity-maybe-belltown-hellcat-driver-should-run-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3961664\/ross-if-popularity-to-immunity-maybe-belltown-hellcat-driver-should-run-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross: If popularity creates immunity, maybe the &#8216;Belltown Hellcat Bandit&#8217; should run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody\u2019s got their opinion about the Trump conviction, but I see a new day dawning in America. A new feeling in the land that the law shouldn\u2019t stifle your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s jury came back with a unanimous guilty verdict the day after getting the case \u2013 which means it wasn\u2019t even close. And yet a considerable part of the American electorate \u2013 including Mitt Romney, a traditional non-Trump Republican \u2013 is convinced that the case shouldn\u2019t even have been prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/shows.audiocdn.com\/s\/bonneville\/kiro-newsradio-commentar-33cc1c\/ross-if-popularity-creat-55a9c7\/embed\/standard-horizontal\/v2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"173\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local response to Trump conviction<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3961429\/washington-republicans-democrats-react-to-trumps-guilty-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Republicans, Democrats react to Trump\u2019s guilty verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of completely normal Americans believe a guilty man should have gone free, and he probably will because of his popularity.<\/p>\n<p>As for what happens when you\u2019re unpopular \u2013 well, look at Hunter Biden. He\u2019s about to go on trial for lying about his drug use when he filled out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/docs\/form\/form-1-application-make-and-register-firearm-atf-form-53201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATF form<\/a> to buy his handgun. How many &#8220;Leave Hunter Alone&#8221; rallies do you think we\u2019ll see? How many gun owners see him as a martyr for the Second Amendment? How many people are asking: &#8220;What\u2019s the big deal? It\u2019s just lying on a piece of paper.&#8221; The cheering section is very quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Which, believe it or not, brings me to the case of Seattle\u2019s own Belltown Hellcat. He\u2019s the guy who goes tearing through Downtown Seattle at night in his unmuffled souped-up Dodge Charger at 107 miles an hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on Belltown Hellcat<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3955978\/infamous-belltown-hellcat-social-media-influencer-charged-reckless-driving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Belltown Hellcat&#8217; social media influencer barred from driving infamous car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as he explained to one cop who stopped him, he\u2019s gotta keep doing it because he\u2019s got 757,000 Instagram followers! That generates enough money to pay for his car and his downtown apartment! In the bodycam video, the cop couldn\u2019t have been more polite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an ASE Certified Master Technician as well as a cop, believe it or not,&#8221; the responding officer said when pulling over the Belltown Hellcat driver. &#8220;I have a car that would smoke yours. You just got to keep [the muffler] on. Why don&#8217;t you go to Pacific Raceways?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get yourself on the ballot, Hellcat. Run on a platform of cheap gas, and tell \u2019em you\u2019re making downtown fun again. I believe the time is ripe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More from Dave Ross<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3960891\/ross-living-defensively-has-limits-facing-forever-chemicals\/\">Living defensively has its limits when facing \u2018forever chemicals\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to \u201cSeattle\u2019s Morning News\u201d with Dave Ross and Colleen O\u2019Brien weekday mornings from 5-9 a.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM. 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