The old mayor was barly able to keep a lid on things. She announced that she was bowing out after only one term.
From Jason Rantz writing at FOX News:
Seattle is about to go unthinkably left as liberal mayor announces she won't seek reelection
Seattle’s first-term Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that she won’t seek reelection. This almost ensures the unthinkable: Seattle will drift even further to the left.
The news didn’t come to me as a shock. I have been hearing rumors for the last couple weeks that Durkan was reconsidering reelection after being rendered powerless by a City Council that repeatedly stands in her way. After the last Council election, she was left with a majority of members who would never be her political allies.
At the same time, the mayor faced daily political pressure from the city’s most vocal and fringe activists, pressuring her to adopt their dangerous plans, including defunding the police.
A major shame - Seattle used to be a great city. In 1972, I visited there for three days and went back to Boston and moved there the next year. Loved it. Now? It is a third-world shithole city. Not as bad as San Francisco or Minneapolis but getting close - very very close.
Let's hope that people come to their senses and vote this vocal minority out of office. Get Seattle back to work again.
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