(Image: @CMJoyHollings)
Team Hollingsworth is dealing with an injury to a key player.
District 3 Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth has been on crutches after two weeks getting around the power corridors of Seattle on a mobility scooter after tearing her calf muscle.
She did not injure herself arguing with Stranger editors on Twitter.
The standout basketball player who even spent a short time as a pro in Greece says it wasn’t the most athletic moment that landed her on Seattle City Hall’s injured list.
The first-year council member said she was running across the street when her muscle “snapped.”
Despite the injury, it has been a busy four months for the freshman legislator. CHS reported here on the first legislation handled by her parks committee and the formation of her office team along with priorities centered on transparency and accessibility.
The injury might make the accessibility part a bigger challenge but Hollingsworth appears game not to let the tear get her down. She is scheduled to take part in a public safety walk on Capitol Hill later this week.
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What are the details on the public safety walk? There’s nothing on her calendar or in her newsletter about it.
Get better soon Joy!!
Chubby & Tubby t-shirt! Very impressive!
Here’s hoping for a swift recovery!
I hope her a swift recovery and that she can use this opportunity to learn how difficult it can be for many of the city’s most vulnerable pedestrians to get around!
She has more politically visible things to do so you might want to constantly remind her.
Is Joy planning on doing anything to help rent prices, homelessness, I mean just ANYTHING that helps the poor? She seems fully focused on businesses and not people.
She is firmly upper middle class and loyal to those of influence who got her where she is so no, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
and congrats to a black woman for being there.
This is such a condescending statement even though I know you meant it otherwise 🤦♂️
Feel whatever you need to feel, Matt.