As the HEO (highest elected official) in Seattle, Sintra v. Seattle would establish that Durkan has personal liability under the Federal Civil Rights Act if she takes an action that “violates clearly established statutory of constitutional rights of which a reasonable person should have known.” The bar to prove that is exceptionally high, however, I’d imagine if it could be demonstrated she actually instructed the cessation of policing in a part of the city that would be so unusual or exotic the defendants could go after her personal property.
I hope they do.
I would rather Durkan’s bank account be drained of $10 million in damages than half-a-million people in Seattle’s bank accounts drained of $20 each.
Sue Her Personally
3 years ago
By the way, you have to be a special kind of moron to even want to be Mayor of Seattle.
PAUL SCHELL
First mayor in 65 years to lose a primary election; died in anonymity
GREG NICKELS
Second mayor in 65 years to lose a primary election; failed to mount a political comeback; whereabouts unknown
MIKE MCGINN
Unseated after a single term; failed to mount a political comeback; whereabouts unknown
ED MURRAY
Forced to resign – currently being sued to death
You have to go back to Norm Rice, 20 years ago, to find a single Seattle mayor who managed to ascend to higher office and – in Rice’s case – it wasn’t really that much higher … a deputy cabinet secretary.
You then have to go back all the way to 1940 (I don’t count Mayor Braman’s appointment as the fifth highest post in the Department of Transportation) to Mayor Langlie who clawed his way into the Governor’s mansion after his term in Seattle. And then Mayor Miller in 1910 who managed to get to the U.S. House.
The office of Mayor of Seattle is the graveyard of Washington politics. The best you can hope for afterwards is a lectureship at the Harvard Kennedy school and a board seat on fly by night startup.
As the HEO (highest elected official) in Seattle, Sintra v. Seattle would establish that Durkan has personal liability under the Federal Civil Rights Act if she takes an action that “violates clearly established statutory of constitutional rights of which a reasonable person should have known.” The bar to prove that is exceptionally high, however, I’d imagine if it could be demonstrated she actually instructed the cessation of policing in a part of the city that would be so unusual or exotic the defendants could go after her personal property.
I hope they do.
I would rather Durkan’s bank account be drained of $10 million in damages than half-a-million people in Seattle’s bank accounts drained of $20 each.
By the way, you have to be a special kind of moron to even want to be Mayor of Seattle.
PAUL SCHELL
First mayor in 65 years to lose a primary election; died in anonymity
GREG NICKELS
Second mayor in 65 years to lose a primary election; failed to mount a political comeback; whereabouts unknown
MIKE MCGINN
Unseated after a single term; failed to mount a political comeback; whereabouts unknown
ED MURRAY
Forced to resign – currently being sued to death
JENNY DURKAN
Dead man walking
You have to go back to Norm Rice, 20 years ago, to find a single Seattle mayor who managed to ascend to higher office and – in Rice’s case – it wasn’t really that much higher … a deputy cabinet secretary.
You then have to go back all the way to 1940 (I don’t count Mayor Braman’s appointment as the fifth highest post in the Department of Transportation) to Mayor Langlie who clawed his way into the Governor’s mansion after his term in Seattle. And then Mayor Miller in 1910 who managed to get to the U.S. House.
The office of Mayor of Seattle is the graveyard of Washington politics. The best you can hope for afterwards is a lectureship at the Harvard Kennedy school and a board seat on fly by night startup.
Have many former mayors in other cities fared better? Climbing up the ladder whether in politics or in private sector isn’t easy.
Bernie
Jerry Brown
Cory Booker
But in general you’re right, they’re the exceptions.
I’ll be boycotting every single business that signed up with this racist right wing company.