It has been a long 2025 election season but Tuesday night’s Capitol Hill Community Council/First Hill Improvement Association Mayoral Debate brought new energy and new opportunities for the candidates to distinguish themselves in important issues including the Broadway Crisis Care Center, neighborhood homelessness, Pike/Pine and Garfield gun violence, affordability, and, yes, electric scooters.
“They do drive me crazy,” Mayor Bruce Harrell admitted before delving into a deeper answers on issues around the surprisingly important component of Seattle’s transit system. More on that, below.
The incumbent and challenger Katie Wilson sparred on the night in front of a group of around 150 inside Harvard Ave’s First Baptist over themes of experience and change in a back and forth on questions from moderators Chris Paulus of the Capitol Hill Community Council and Ellen Greene of the First Hill Improvement Association, and support from the Urban Community Councils of Seattle group that has grown as an umbrella organization connecting some of the city’s core neighborhoods.
CHS also advised and helped the groups form the night’s topics.
The candidates were provided with a roster of possible questions prior to the debate to allow them to prepare in a standard the Urban Community Councils group established in a series of political debates it helped organize this year. The candidates were given two minutes to answer plus an opportunity for follow-up time.
Harrell, an incumbent centrist coming out of a summer primary that saw a strong showing from a slate of Seattle progressives, spent those minutes focused on his leadership against the Trump administration and his many years at City Hall and in the city.
In her time, Wilson made the case that 14 years “working in and around City Hall pushing ‘visionary legislation'” made her the right candidate to lead the city forward.
The differences between the two on issues specific to First Hill and Capitol Hill were illuminating.
CRISIS CARE CENTER
The county’s nearby planned $56 million Broadway Crisis Care Center was one flashpoint.
Harrell told the crowd his plan for city support for the center will hold county officials accountable and that a Seattle Police Department-led “Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design” process will make the area safer around the center planned to open in 2027.
“The good neighbor agreement is real,” Harrell said.
Wilson, who said she has met with community members in the area, said Harrell’s plan for public safety environmental design is not enough and that the mayor’s office must make sure SPD is a “productive partner” and active in the area even after the center opens. She also said she would champion services that will help people after their time at the center.
GUN VIOLENCE
The recent deadly gun violence at Pike and Broadway only a few blocks from Tuesday’s debate was also a sparring point.
CHS reported here on a year of public safety efforts to respond to ongoing Pike/Pine gun violence even as 26-year-old Robert Fleeks and 18-year-old Jaydon Jameson were shot and killed this month within two blocks of Broadway and Pike.
The mayor said Tuesday night one of the strongest ways to deter deadly gun violence is to make arrests.
“Both of those murders would have been captured on video,” Harrell said as he championed the planned expansion of the planned SPD Real-Time Crime Center’s camera system to Pike/Pine.
Harrell also argued that his continued push to raise SPD staffing levels to 1,500 officers to “get cops out of their cars and onto the streets” is needed to truly make the area around Pike and Broadway safer.
Wilson said Tuesday her opponent’s administration is taking on crime the wrong way after a City Auditor report showed Seattle was not taking a multi-departmental approach to gun violence that has been successful in other cities like Baltimore and Milwaukee.
“This is so important,” Wilson said. “I’ve talked to mothers who have lost children to gun violence.”
Wilson also said we can’t depend on SPD and conventional policing to solve these problems, championing expansion of the city’s civilian Community Assisted Response & Engagement department crisis responders and clearing the ways CARE has been “systematically undermined” by SPD.
Wilson also said it wasn’t enough for the city to hold workshops in communities impacted by gun violence without offering solutions.
“It should be a community conversation but not just ‘What do you think?'” Wilson said. “People are afraid and need to be presented data, need to be presented models, to understand options.” Wilson also criticized SPD’s lack of progress on murder investigations including the still unsolved deadly shooting of Amarr Murphy-Paine, the 17-year-old shot and killed while trying to break up a fight in Garfield High School’s parking lot in June 2024.
“Victim families deserve to have investigations completed in a timely manner,” Wilson said.
HOMELESSNESS
Another point of contention came over homelessness as the community groups asked for how the city can measure success in its ongoing efforts to provide shelter and services.
The mayor used his time to champion “permanent supportive housing” and called on leaders of nearby cities to do more to support his efforts in Seattle as the King County Regional Homelessness Authority has struggled without greater financial support from the suburbs.
Acknowledging the failures of the KCRHA during his time as mayor, Harrell didn’t shy away. “I signed up for it. I don’t make excuses,” Harrell said as he pledged more effort in “forcing” a regional response.
Wilson said Tuesday night that the city must have a plan and homelessness spending strong enough to stand on its own.
“The frustration that I hear is palpable,” Wilson said. saying areas are swept “and people aren’t getting the help so they’ll be back.”
“‘Other cities need to do more’ is not a homelessness plan for Seattle,” Wilson said.
SCOOTERS?
Amid these higher profile issues, the debate over electric scooters was surprisingly energetic with both candidates acknowledging the importance of the popular “micro mobility” option — and the irritations.
Wilson admitted that even the Transit Riders Union group she has helped lead for more than a decade finds the rental scooters a tricky topic. Her solutions for helping them mesh better with the city are continued investment in the city’s bike lane network where riders can safely — and legally — operate the scooters and adding more parking corrals like those seen in other large cities to help address the way the scooters are typically scattered on Seattle sidewalks.
Harrell also acknowledged the utility and popularity of the rental scooters and said more and better bike lanes should help.
“They are a challenge,” Harrell said. “It is unlawful to ride a scooter on the sidewalk.”
He said his administration has also turned more attention to forcing the rental companies behind Lime, Bird, and Link to address the issues. Tuesday night, Harrell said the city has issued “thousands of tickets” to the companies over improper storage and his administration is “looking for ways to get better behavior from the companies.”
For single issue voters, maybe the scooter debate was enough to make up their minds Tuesday night.
Seven Eight more things CHS heard at the Capitol Hill Community Council/First Hill Improvement Association Mayoral Debate
- Another contrast? On reducing problems around public drug use, Wilson said she would be open to a supervised consumption effort but “a better use of capital” is to put people “into low barrier shelter or permanent supportive housing” while also matching SPD enforcement with treatment programs. Harrell also championed treatment programs but said the city must continue is initiative to target and arrest major drug dealers including bust he touted that netted “14 of the most prolific drug dealers” at 12th and Jackson.
- How will they help drive growth in Seattle’s economy? Wilson said her work on raising progressive revenue will continues and the city needs to make sure people “are not falling through the cracks by investing in social and affordable housing to create jobs. Harrell said the city’s small businesses must lead the way and touted the proposed overhaul of the city’s business tax system on the November ballot that would exempt any business generating less than $2 million a year from the city’s B&O tax.
- What about parks and dog parks? Harrell said he especially values the public spaces — and opportunities to create new ones — as potential economic engines and draws for people looking to live in the city. Wilson used the topic as an opportunity to win a few points from any Capitol Hill Superblock fans saying she supports the idea of a pedestrianized zone in Pike/Pine.
- Experience? It has been a theme of the race for Harrell as he faces a challenger with a much shorter City Hall resume. Wilson said Tuesday her more than a decade leading the Transit Riders Union and fighting for efforts like the minimum wage have prepared her and that she would build a strong, experienced administration to support her in City Hall. “You can’t hire that kind of experience,” Harrell said. “You also kind of have to know it.”
- Race and privilege: The mayor backed off his recent criticisms and avoided attacking Wilson over her upbringing and education Tuesday night. “The fact is this: she was born of privilege. I mean, her parents were college professors,” the mayor said in this CHS interview earlier in the campaign. “My parents were not. They just graduated high school, right?”
- What would you say to a young person paralyzed by the city’s affordability crisis? “This is why I’m running,” Wilson said. “To tackle the affordability crisis with everything I’ve got.”
- G Line changes? Transit advocates may have been tired by the end of the night so there were no audible gasps in the audience but Harrell made a surprising statement or two about the future the RapidRide G line. The mayor said he wants to answer concerns from neighborhood businesses and revisit decisions that changed some lanes and eliminated left hand turn lanes around the year-old RapidRide line on Madison between the waterfront and Madison Valley across First Hill and Capitol Hill to “help small businesses recover” and clear “some bumps along the way” of the bus rapid transit line.
- Attendance: An organizer said she tallied around 150 people in the crowd.
Ballots have been delivered for the General Election and must be postmarked or dropped in a King County Election collection box by 8 PM on Tuesday, November 4th.
In addition to the mayor’s race, Seattle voters will make a host of important decisions:
- CITY ATTORNEY: “The City Attorney’s race also played out poorly for a center-leaning incumbent. Republican-leaning Ann Davison, like Nelson, is on her way to November with less than 40% of the vote on Election Night. Evans, a former federal prosecutor, has emphasized her record as a civil rights prosecutor with a dedication to public service and personal experience with poverty, claimed the top spot with more than 51% of the vote…”
- SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL POSITION 8: “Incumbent Alexis Mercedes Rinck rode her bonafides as the the most progressive member of the current council to more than 78% of the primary vote…”
- SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL POSITION 9: “Sara Nelson, meanwhile, is facing a serious challenge to her Position 9 reelection from nonprofit executive and former community organizer and policy advisor Dionne Foster after a terrible showing in the August primary…”
- PROP 1: “Mayor Bruce Harrell last week signed legislation that will put the proposed $1.3 billion school levy renewal on the fall ballot…”
- PROP 2: “would exempt any business generating less than $2 million a year from the city’s B&O tax while raising the tax rate on the city’s most prosperous companies like Amazon and Starbucks. The proposal would eliminate or reduce the tax for around 90% of Seattle businesses while generating an estimated $81 million in new revenue…”
- SCHOOL BOARD: Four Seattle School Board seats are also on the ballot
- KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE: “At the county level, the favorites to replace Dow Constantine as King County Executive have made it through to the general with Girmay Zahilay tallying 44% of the vote with strong support across Seattle and Claudia Balducci coming in just under 30% buoyed by her support among Eastside moderates…”
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The mayor of Capitol Hill: Why you should vote for Katie Wilson*
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Katie Wilson sure is lucky to have parents who still support her financially at the age of 43.
I think she is luckier she just isn’t bruce harrell, I think anyone but him could win the election this year.
Just as anyone but Katie Wilson will win in 2029. Rinse and repeat.
Especially given that she doesn’t work! I’d love to see one referral from one previous employer, but she’s never said where she’s worked, other than at her imaginary nonprofit. I would love to found my own nonprofit that doesn’t do anything except pay me a salary to not work, but that’s unethical and, frankly, ridiculous.
A trustifarian leader of a fake union of one. She is totally unqualified to lead a major city. It is an embarrassment that she has gotten this far. She is even less qualified than the clowns that Trump has appointed to cabinet positions. What a joke.
Agreed! A total joke!
Bruce is failing upward
I’m going to assume you’re being genuine here, though the second half of your comment shows that might not be a good assumption. Regardless, here you go.
““Katie Wilson is smart, tough, running for mayor…and a former Mike Cain Construction employee,” he wrote on Facebook after she announced her campaign.”
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10/02/80265661/the-making-of-katie-wilson
KUOW’s story revealed that her husband also doesn’t work, and the grandparents send a monthly check to cover daycare. They appear to live without financial strain, relying on family support instead of employment. If she wins, the reality will hit hard. Real reporting, real budgets, real employees. It’s deeply unsettling to think someone with so little real-world experience might be put in charge of a city this large and complex
When can we legally start the recall?
Katie Wilson and her husband live in a one bedroom apartment in an old building. They take the bus. They didn’t chase money with soul-sucking, big corporate jobs like Bruce and his wife did. To me, that is 100% more relatable, and gives much more real world experience with what it’s like to live in Seattle, and what needs to change to make this city better.
Bruce Harrell lives in a luxury home in a waterfront neighborhood (when not staying in one of his other luxury homes outside of the city), socializes with his super rich friends, and drives around in SUVs with his security detail. Bruce Harrell has completely lost touch with what it’s like to be a normal person in this city, and it 100% shows in his approach to budgets, employees and every aspect of being mayor. He needs to go.
I find it interesting in such a progressive liberal city how people can support a white elitist nepo baby who never worked a day in her life, invented her own fake nonprofit, and had the audacity to cos play as a working class person, despite being from wealth that carries her at the age of 43. Harrell is an ass and not my fav, but it shows how minorities that are truly excellent (lots of education/experience/coming up from nothing) still are on the same playing field as an uneducated, inexperienced, unscrupulous white woman who quit Oxford(lucky her!) with some “ideas”. Like wow Seattle check yourself.
Perfectly said!
Kshama Sawant won over far more qualified and competent white people. I think the question is Seattle has an allergy against people who appear to be moderates. There is a pretty large percentage of Seattle who feels smug over voting for whoever seems to be the most “progressive”. Harrell is pragmatic, and Wilson is idealistic. It’s not surprising that an unqualified idealist would win over a more qualified pragmatist in Seattle. I don’t think our situation is much different than NYC where in that case you have a young POC, Muslim immigrant who is way out polling a far more competent, but seriously flawed, white candidate.
Former New Yorker here, Mamdani finished college, has a degree and actually worked directly in NYC politics since 2020 (and actually went to HS in the Bronx so he is real). Cuomo is a literal sexual predator, the gall to even run is beyond anyone in the city, he is a trash bag nepo baby himself (cuomo) his daddy was a big politico a million years ago. The situation in Seattle is worse, because NYC is a serious city with a tough population and strong dedicated business “community” that actually live the city. Seattle needs to wake up, it’s not 2015 anymore SEA is not hot shit, businesses are leaving for Bellevue or other states, laying off thousands in WA, immigration is at a trickle, inflation and taxes are killing living here…on and on…Seattle has none of the political or social capital of NYC. If Katie wins Trump will send troops into this city in a way he can’t with Mamdani, because NYers are just tougher people. Google how NY acted when the Feds hit Canal street, everyday people forced them to retreat. In Seattle what we gonna do, wear frog outfits and write cute signs to protest, dude, we will get steamrolled. Not to mention the city and state are broke and we want to give reigns to someone who has her parents give her money to. Float her life at middle age!?!? What is this Portlandia?! Again, it’s not 2015 anymore, it’s not cute to be hundreds of millions in the red and already have insane taxes and cost of living, while your main industries are in the toilet and showing signs of a recession. Nightmare situation. I just wish people here were serious, no hate, but grow up Seattle.
Well said
Probably because only a completely shallow moron would think that “progressive” is defined by one’s background rather than their politics.
I’m not exactly sure how the pro-developer, pro-cops doing whatever they want Harrel is somehow more progressive than Wilson or even progressive at all just because he’s from a more humble background. But then again, I’m not an idiot who doesn’t understand what “progressive” means.
Also, she wasn’t lucky to get into Oxford, she was smart, unlike you apparently.
Right wingers trying to concern troll progressives here are not convincing. Go back to the KOMO comments cesspool and take your sock puppets with you.
Looks like the smartness suddenly hit a bit of a low point 6 weeks before graduating from Oxford…
Let me know when you get into Oxford.
Ahh, aren’t you clever…the good old ad hominem “argument” always wins, right!?
“You mean as opposed to the well-reasoned, thoughtful argument you put forward?” I asked dripping with sarcasm.
Yup. Intelligent people made salient points so instead of rebuffing me with talking points, perhaps some of Katie’s policies(?!? What are they again- haha) I must be a bot or a republican agent! I know what a progressive is and isn’t — Mamdani in NYC is a real progressive, Katie Wilson is a fraud looking for something to feed her ego and narcassim by continuing to be a grifter.
“Yup. Intelligent people made salient points so instead of rebuffing me with talking points, perhaps some of Katie’s policies(?!? What are they again- haha) “
Because a twice baked potato could google Katie’s website like everyone else. haha
you are the intelligent one?…mkay…go git em’ tiger!
Yeah, I’m not a Harrell fan, but Harrell’s campaign commercial showing Wilson unable to answer any questions was unfortunately my experience sitting through one of her recent campaign events, where she answered every question by simply directing people to her website. She seemed barely awake and like she wasn’t even trying. Both choices are garbage.
really? A Bruce commercial during the game? That did it for ya? MAGA loves the edited biased versions of “news”.
That was purely a propaganda hit peace. You didn’t see it right? You are assuming that is the full context? Ya didn’t even wait for an answer. Just badger then edit before the answer. Bruce intimidating Katie like a psycho killer as he goes on full attack mode. The goal is to rattle her. Just like Trump and Hillary. It’s a bully move men with crunchy Cheeto’s for a penis do to compensate.
You opinion is simply right wing talk radio parroting. Bruce adverts.
The dude’s not all that. And you being duped by a propaganda video is exhibit 1A.
I am not sure what you’re referring to. Salient points are given in response to salient points, you simply chose to create your own definition of a term.
You can’t define progressive properly, it’s not complicated. I corrected you.
It is not where you come from or your wealth. Were that true, the millions of poor whites that support Trump wouldn’t exist.
Do I need to draw that in crayon for you get the point?
There is nothing to rebuff, you haven’t made a point.
You are wrong about what constitutes a progressive. I corrected you. It’s not your background or personal wealth, but what you believe. This isn’t rocket science but obviously beyond your comprehension. That is the only point I made aside from Harrell is definitely not a progressive (because he’s not–and in your own post you wonder why progressive Seattle supports her even though she’s clearly more left wing than Harrell, and then you define the NYC guy as progressive and make that the standard–does Harrell look progressive compared to him? You can’t even square you own argument and have no consistency). If Mamdami is the REAL progressive, what the fuck is Harrell?
Apparently, I have do have to get out the crayons. You’re quite thick. And yes, you are clearly a right winger–only they say such stupid shit and don’t have the humility to give up when they have been called out on it.
Also, genius, you can’t sit there and claim one guy definitely is a progressive but Wilson isn’t while pretending to now know her policies. If you don’t know her policies, why are you so sure she’s not progressive? Jump the General Lee over that one can come back for some more, because you seem to enjoy making a fool of yourself in public.
Meh…Based on “BS”‘s response. I declare you winner via the corner throwing in the towel.
They know it only gets worse from here and save their fighters…lol
Instead of being concerned about the affordability factors in Seattle that led Katie to ask her parents for financial help, this Luther poster rags on Katie like it is her fault she is not wealthy. This is the same attitude of Trump and the Republicans – they believe it is your fault that you’re not rich and that “getting rich” is the purpose of life.
It’s all they got. It’s pretty pathetic.
Ignore the fact that if Katie is so bad? And wins? Then what’s that make Bruce?
The dude is a poser. His whole identity is wrapped up in his Mayors job. He is using tax payer money to pay his personal political advisor. He’s there 24/7/365 at Bruce’s side.
Mhhh, yeah…last time I checked there was a pretty big range between someone being wealthy and someone simply deciding that they didn’t want to have a regular job. Trying to sell KW as a victim of Seattle’s general affordability crisis is nothing but a hard slap in the face of everyone who’s working (w/o ever “getting rich” btw) and doesn’t have the privileged background KW obviously has…
You avoided the question.
Don’t be so defensive.
Also? You’d hire these folks right? Give them a job right? Well? DUH! Nobody else would either! Why? Because they are in generally bad health mentally and physically. Like living outside is a luxury right? It’s too bad they can do that right? They need to go. Not get supportive housing. Not filter through drug court. Not finally just reaching bottom.
Yeah, no empathy means yes. You are well to do. Land ownership, home ownership is a privilege anymore.
Anyone like me never had a chance even when healthy. Flat wages for 50 years is working and having nothing to show for it. For 100’s of millions of people. They are all lazy right? As the rich got richer. Money is speech. So you have the ability to drown the poor with your hypocritical excuses to dismiss the facts. A persons home is the single best wealth investment. Only the well to do get to even consider it though.
Your lack of understanding the issue is hampering your excuse believability. You are not “poor”
Oh, but Katie is wealthy… She simply gets her money from her parents when she’s not getting from a job.
Katie is in her position by choice. She quit college. Not just any college, but Oxford, 6 weeks short of graduation… just to thumb her nose at the system..
She’s accustomed to be handed things and experiencing no consequences from her choices. No one who ever had to work for their own education would have ever done this, but because mummy and daddy are happy to follow her around and pick up the slack she’s free to play make believe social crusader without ever having to actually walk the walk.
Of course she thinks everyone should get free everything.. it’s how her own life has always worked. I mean sheesh.. her husband isn’t even employed.. Why isn’t he providing childcare, rather than her parents sending her money to put her toddler in expensive daycare.. (my own spouse had a stay at home dad.. they do exist)
mkay…how nice of you.
Katie is doing what you MAGA say to do. “Pull up her bootstraps” and her chosen profession and route to achieve it is nothing but disparaged. Bruce bullies her using the same tactics.
Bruce hides the fact we pay for his private political advisor. Asks for less accountability and a softening of ethics. Steals progressive voter approved revenue for cops and surveillances the voters arbore. Kiosks rammed down our throats so “small businesses” can profit from the data they sell to the kiosk vendor…Legally too. Bruce called it a “win win”. People can look to see where to go and have adverts and cameras and internet decoys on our ROW sidewalks. They want seating and surveillances and anything else on the ROW. We need to claw back our power and thus the revenue go where it was intended. No more bloated budgets with cops 45% raises in 5 years!!! So get off your high horse.
I’ll take Katie who has the courage to stand up to these people and the right people in place to get the job done.
Why is it you MAGA types think the King runs everything? It’s the staff that does the work. It’s the people who decide what that work will be. Bruce has it twisted. At least Katie understands the proper structure. Ethics based on empathy. Bruce and his wealthy donors are anything but honest and empathetic. They are destroying govt. to benefit their donors and their friends and the people like the cops that politicians need to win forever. Like a cold war military takeover. Full mission creep mode by a true creep. A snake.
The progressive era is blossoming and the ballots are being cast already. With more every year until Trump and his goon squads are gone forever into the dust bin of history. Deregulation and money in politics must go. “Trickled on” economics are a failure. We are now on the verge of losing the republic to an Oligarchy dictatorship. And Bruce wants data and surveillances… and is boasting about “strong executive orders to protect data from ICE” to protect us from daily crime AND Trump! Wow…Tell the Gov. of CA. and IL. because they are fully invaded and taken over. Elon Musk got everyone’s data. “Big Balls” was in charge of that…lol Ketamine Ken in the oval office being a complete douche. Displaying his kid like Saddam Hussein in the hostage video from the first gulf war.
Bruce’s wealthy friends are not in any way shape or form in touch with present truths. They are stuck in the 80’s. Any twice baked potato can pour more cops out on the street and explode the budget. It’s NEVER worked w/o the second option. But they are taking jobs away from cops so we need to get rid of them via rules that will completely eliminate the need for the CARE teams that voters approved withing a cops union negotiated contract! Thus once again giving the middle finger to the voters and the poorest among us. As you scream “poor choices” “Pull up your boot straps” and beat them to a pulp along the way.
Yeah…That’s some kinda lack of self awareness AKA “out of touch”.
People with the Bruce / MAGA talking points are all lies. All hypocritical. He said she said. He’s a big ugly dude who deliberately intimidates Katie in debates as if it’s a virtue. I call it a bully who punches well before his weight class. He and his cult all do it.
At what point does kicking them constantly while down become sadistic? MAGA has no limits on that. The MAGA supports Bruce because there’s nobody else that can win MAGA agenda. So they run a playbook like Project 2025 with that political advisor and realtors writing their own laws. Literally. What? You thought Bruce thought of all that himself and did all that work himself? NOBODY DOES! He’s a rich money vacuum because of his position. Like Blago. It’s a plum gig. Job hugging is the game and there are almost no rules. Ripe for well connected football players to pretend they are on the field ready to blast anything that moves. For a debate with Katie? It’s because she is genuinely more intelligent and more in tune politically than Bruce and he’s intimidated the same way you are. “What if she does well? Then we are all screwed.”
Ya see, y’all are not afraid of her screwing it up. You are afraid she’s makes it function better and ends up cementing mainstream progressives for the foreseeable future and you call them worthless the entire way. Crying about parents help. How else does anyone get to school and live a 40 hour a week job? I told my kids “As long as you are in school you can stay here and I’ll take care of ya until you find a gig” Because THAT is what family does. But you and the cult nit pick at everything. Not every thinking. “I am alienated a lot of people” as you go. That is Bruce. That’s the cult and the funders of that cult. Tax cuts and flat wages sealed your fate.
“… you MAGA…” What a joke you are. Enough with the Marxist paranoia please. Nobody in Seattle wanting a more pragmatic leader than Wilson is MAGA. I won’t argue Harrell is entirely my cup of tea, but perhaps trying a two term mayor for once we can at least perhaps have some consistency.
Seriously? Then who does the MAGA vote for in Seattle? Think
It’s easy to pin labels. I back it up with facts. Rolling back voter approved initiatives by fiat? Lower ethics standards? Lower minimum wage? Tons of cops and surveillances? Tax breaks for business and the wealthy? Look it up. It’s all a MAGA agenda. That and more…Bruce is a politician who’s worn his welcome.
Your posts are now Wain’s Psychotic Cat level.
I am a cat person. I am like Dr. Doolittle with animals.
I am 100% I was a cat in my past life.
Nice novel.. way TLDR.. with a bunch of hysterical MAGAS that I can see without reading it thrown in..
Everything is that way with the MAGA. Any word or words are. It’s always the same debunked talking points and attitudes and character.
It’s not as if you are ever going to be converted. I really wasn’t for you. So your opinion is no surprise.
Long form or short form is TLTR and every other reason to stay ignorant. Why even make the effort to understand when you got the answers? Right? Like people asking “Well what is she going to do? What’s her plan?” in this thread as a means of conversation. You should all know things already like the sane who bother to at least try to look like they have a clue. Bring something to the table.
Stumpy stumbles around here and we almost always disagree. But he at least makes sense and doesn’t cop out and cower behind lame excuses in a comment section like “Too long to read” and “U so qwazee” w/o ever reading it…lol
Like I say…It was not intended for you or your ilk.
I don’t need to read much more than a sentence or two of your over long ramble to see it’s just a bunch of hysteria…
I’d suggest you get out of your bubble and go expose yourself to some people who are truly right wing for a while… You might come back with a little perspective and a realization that there’s very, very few people in this city who fit the description and that when you start the hyperbolic name calling it’s just a good reason to ignore everything your say.
I don’t know about her husband or his employment prospects. Maybe he can’t work for some reason – it sounds like something personal. All I know it is TOO expensive to live in Seattle, and Katie if fighting for a more affordable Seattle while Bruce is sitting by and letting the cost of living here spiral out of control.
Her husband doesn’t appear to have any reasons why he couldn’t be the primary care giver to their child.. He’s described as ‘another activist’ and has aspirations to have a home baking business… Sounds perfect for being a stay at home dad..
Cost of living is high here because people want to live here… the only thing that will change that is making it less desirable.
Thank you. Well said. Is she just going to quit the city when managing gets too hard.(?)
Don’t forget the support she receives in democracy vouchers! She is hardly the first candidate to create lifestyle by cashing them in.
Bruce uses tax payer funds for his personal political advisor. Stole $309 million from voter approved Jumpstart tax. To buy pet projects and a surveillances network and enough cops to bury our city budget. Take a wild guess what Bruce will do to balance his budget? Take money from the poorest. Take the voter approved progressive funds and turn it into a slush fund for the MAGA Bruce cronies. The ones who fund his campaign. The billionaire’s and millionaires.
Saying Katie’s money is totally grass roots is not the insult you think it is there rich person. Ghead and tell me you don’t own a home. Try it.
It’s people like you that created Katie Wilson and the No Kings protests. It’s all about the tax cuts. Nothing else matters except more control over the city via cops and surveillances.
Gee? What else ya got? She dropped out of school? You know how many people did that to become what she wanted to accomplish? The childish and hypocritical agenda’s are the wealthy. The NIMBY types. The ones above it all.
Good luck. The progressive era in America is here because of people exactly like you.
“You can’t hire that kind of experience,” Harrell said. “You also kind of have to know it.”
Seems to me that statement has sealed his fate.
Yeah, he is admitting failure – his failure to hire competent people to run the city. Police chief was a bust who hired his mistress as an upper-level manager at SPD. His homeless director was reprimanded for favoring white applicants and a toxic work environment. Bruce’s own deputy mayor niece quit over the same toxic work environment issue. It seems Bruce is just not very good at hiring the right folks.
Half of Bruce Harrell’s cabinet are women! And most have stayed since his election!
clout chasers and job huggers
HI fired Diaz. Mayor Durkan was the one who hired Diaz.
Makes you look uniformed.
wow some of u here sound like bots lol yall work for Harrell? You guys acting like only one person ever makes decisions here yawn
IKR? The sock puppets are pretty obvious for the well educated. The MAGA Savage threads here are also the same. The Times as well. Then they vanish after election. Staffers and cult members only have so much time and attention spans.
““The frustration that I hear is palpable,” Wilson said. saying areas are swept “and people aren’t getting the help so they’ll be back.”
Wilson is ignoring the fact that many homeless people (? the majority) refuse help like shelter and services. It’s often not the city’s fault they remain on the streets, it’s their refusal to help themselves.
Maybe she’ll let them crash on the couch at her parents mansion. Her answer seems to always be “ideas” and “levy” and “taxes” makes sense for someone who needs mommy’s money at 43. She’s a hallow narcissist and fraud.
The envy is strong with this one
70% of the encampment dwellers are drug addicts that came to Seattle homeless. If we allow them to camp and give them free apartments, the problem will continue to grow. The mayor should focus on meeting the needs of Seattle residents not drug vagrants that migrated here for the permissive environment by removing these encampments immediately. The easiest way to do this is to implement and enforce a camping ban. Sweep sweep sweep out of the city.
Like 10 Amazon workers I party with in Capitol Hill are cocaine addicts who came here from the Bay Area or India so…this is a stupid comment,.
“70% of the encampment dwellers are drug addicts that came to Seattle homeless.”
I tried and there’s no research available to match your garbage 70%.
Let’s see here..the daily needs of the family are provided by Katie’s academically elite, wealthy, east coast family. .she dropped out of Oxford weeks before graduation because some sort of personal enlightenment.. claims to represent us working class poors – she’s just like the rest of us, with ideas on how to fix things.
Has not really maintained a soul sucking 40 hour a week working job like many of us that she claims to represent. I guess she can’t lower herself to even get a part-time job at QFC or Safeway, to actually have some sort of commonality with the lived experience of the poor working schlubs , us hoi polloi.
Without really having any time drains like scheduled work, I’m glad she’ll be able to enter the Mayor’s office fully charged and ready to give it her all for those long work weeks, weekends, and nights away from family. She does plan to continue to rent an apartment and rely on transit right?
it’s stolen valor. She’s not working class and her “union” isn’t really a union. As a working class stiff with bill anxiety every month and a 40 hour a week gig that yes, can be soul sucking it enrages me how she presents herself. She’s a fraud. I will have to hold my nose and vote for Bruce but that’s what I will do.
you a veteran? Nope…Get that out your mouth.
“it’s stolen valor.” is only judged by one veteran to another. Not a civilian. I am an 0351.
Comparing it to a transit union is a disgrace to all veterans living or dead full stop.
You are not as smart as you think Tiff. Better to just swallow that rhetoric.
You should’ve said that you were Section 8.
Seems like the debate could have had a few questions about background, work experience etc given what we are learning below.
Really? It sounds like a Bruce sock puppet. Bruce’s whole schtick is she’s a timid poser who is in over her head. A dropout who can’t finish anything and the like.
Nobody starts with experience. The auto mechanic is a house rep in DC right? I bet you love her politics. Suddenly experience is last on the list. Trump proclaims to have done great things. He’s a mobster. Good for him. RICO will catch up. So his accomplishments and those of the govt. coup are all very decorated with experience. They will all face trial at some point.
So my experience tells me today Katie is the honest person we need in charge of this city. The voters will put her in office and rewrite the wrongs and claw back this budget busting plan Bruce has. He’s corrupt. Monied goon for the wealthiest.
I think we can tell she doesn’t know to much about the real,world based on this :
Wilson has more detailed proposals to address housing costs. For one thing, she wants landlords to pay moving expenses if they raise the rent more than 5%.
I imagine a lot of rent rises will be hitting if landlords feel they will be locked in sub 5% with property tax(mine up 20%), home insurance (mine just went up 50%) and interest rates (still way higher than any time in last decade) costing a lot more.