Council Member Lisa Herbold ditched her West Seattle seat for fear of a challenge from antifa, or whatever the propagandists call the cool kids these days. The SECB thinks she overreacted. None of these District 1 candidates will usher in the revolution, and most of them would amount to a huge downgrade from Herbold.
The only one who might not disappoint is Maren Costa. Costa organized thousands of tech workers to pressure online retail giant Amazon to be slightly less shitty to the environment. She kept sticking it to Bezos until the company illegally fired her after an attempt to build solidarity between tech workers and warehouse workers during the pandemic. With Amazon’s greatest enemy, Council Member Kshama Sawant, leaving City Hall, we’ll need a new pro-worker champion to grab big business by the spheres.
