Thx for tipping your hand on The Stranger's preferred candidate for District 3.
Useful information for me in evaluating objectivity of future election coverage.

Leslie you are stupid as fuck. You clearly have an unrequited hard-on for Ari Hoffman. When people talk about affirmative action and whether it lowers standards, all I have to do is point to you and Dan Quayle. (But then you're so dumb you probably don't know who Dan Quayle is).

The fact that you have a job writing for even a rag like The Stranger tells me that affirmative action for white dudes is still very much a thing. You guys keep talking about social justice, I can't imagine they couldn't find a drunk black a brown guy who could write out of their ass better than you.

@2 What the Stranger editorial board, and their endorsement committee does, and how individual staff writers feel are two different things. That said, Lester is a pretty smart fellow, and he understands that that the District 3 race this year is Amazon against Seattle's working class, and the only candidate who stands with the working class is Kshama Sawant.That's why it's great to know who won't refuse Amazon money, it lets people know going forward that every candidate that didn't give an unequivocal "no" as a answer is an enemy of the working class, and should never hold office.

Why would the Young Democrats endorse a Socialist (any more than they would endorse a Republican)? Shouldn't she be looking for support from the Young Socialist?

“...the city was getting serious about ending our apartment ban (aka single-family zoning)? Does this mean the biggest barrier to affordable housing in my city was about to crumble?”

There are vacant lots on either side of MLK, all along the light-rail line. There’s no “ban” on building apartments there. Building there would house more persons of modest incomes sooner than re-zoning Wedgewood could.

Not that we’ll actually be re-zoning Wedgwood anytime soon:

“... even upzoning a small piece of the city's single-family zoning (6 percent) took a massive amount of political capital and many years.“

So, time and effort spent building on available lots now, versus years spent fighting well-organized fellow citizens. Which makes more sense?

Serious question. Why would the Young Democrats endorse Sawant? She's not a Democrat, she's a Socialist.