Seattle’s Dave Meinert is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player

A LOT OF stories told by music and nightlife promoter Dave Meinert start with the line, “So I met this guy in a bar . . . “

It’s something of a running joke with Meinert, one of the driving forces behind the hugely popular Capitol Hill Block Party.

Despite hair that’s more pushed back than styled, a wardrobe heavy on T-shirts and jeans and a 5 o’clock shadow that suggests a rocker with a hangover, this 44-year-old is no idle barfly.

Meinert is, in fact, a power broker, the man who helped bring down Seattle’s much-maligned Teen Dance Ordinance, quash former City Attorney Mark Sidran’s mayoral-election bid and elect current City Attorney Pete Holmes.

Read the full article by By Tyrone Beason in the The Seattle Times