Kinijit leaders arrive in Seattle [photo: Kinijit Seattle]
3:50 PM PST / 6:50 PM EST
The Seattle town hall meeting is now over. Next is the fund raising dinner. From the town hall meeting and the dinner event last night over $50,000 have been collected. We will update the figure after tonight’s dinner party. There is no place where the Shaleqa-Taye-EPRP group tried as hard to derail the Kinijit delegation’s visit. They had even interviewed the party’s estranged chairman from his hospital bed last week urging Ethiopians in Seattle not to participate in today’s events. The Kinijit support committee in Seattle, the only Kinijit support group that refused to welcome the leaders, had allied itself with the corrupt Shaleqa. So Kinijit North America chairman Ato Aklog Lemeneh took a decisive measure in disbanding the group and in its place created an hoc committee lead by a prominent Ethiopian attorney in Seattle, Dr Shakespeare Feyissa, who quickly formed a 31-member team that organized the amazingly successful event today…