My issue / concern with Katie is her lack of executive leadership - I’m sorry but mayor is not a job someone should learn on the fly. Katie has some good policy ideas (based on what she has written for TS), but that is simply not enough.

I really wish she was running for the council (so we could enact legislation) versus mayor (where she’ll be expected to deliver on what the council passes).

As for Girmay, I think he’s shown a good track record (legislatively) but he lacks some of Claudia’s myriad executive experience. I think this will be a tight race - happy to see folks won’t need to select the lesser of two evils.

There hasn't been even one pro-Harrell guest rant. Can't there be a semblance of fairness, after all both candidates are Democrats?

One can only wonder if any pro-Harrell pieces were submitted, or submitted but refused.

It's stunning that so many lefties think an aimless, privileged woman with no full time job experience and a bucket of starry eyed proposals should be our next mayor. I get the disappointment with Harrell, but seriously? Take a minute and really examine any one of Wilson's big "ideas." They're all "conversations" that lead to progressive revenue and some fuzzy result. Her supporters need to grow up and stop demanding that grownups give them hand outs.

Girmay has a blind spot for transit, which is a major component of the King County Exec’s job, and benefits EVERYBODY. Vote Balducci! (And Wilson).

@3: I think the plan is for her parents to make up Seattle's revenue shortfalls with monthly checks. Just till we're back on our feet of course.

Pete Hegseth is as inexperienced to be Defense Secretary as Katie Wilson is as inexperienced to be Seattle's Mayor.

@3 If Harrell had been anything other than a constant failure of a Mayor, I would agree with you. But he hasn't offered any meaningful leadership. Go back to Bellevue, Bruce.

@7: What leadership failure are you referring to? Can you provide an example?

@6 The same can be true for our actual president of the united states, head of our fbi and countless others in the federal goverment. They elected fucking Arnold and Jesse Ventura as governors as entire states. When did experience become something any of ya'll fucking cared about?

If Katie Wilson wins, she's going to go even more bald. Girmay is already bald. If you photoshopped them together and made the result even whiter than Katie Wilson already is, you'd have Ron Davis' Nosferatu lookin ass.

"Too many conversations treat the Black community like it begins and ends with Bruce Harrell, forgetting the Black women, mothers, and grandmothers who have carried this city on their backs while being pushed further to its margins." - So raise your sons and grandsons better.

Black black black black black. Only an idiot would want Seattle to become "more black". As far as the "black community" goes, I deal with it 5 days a week while waiting for the bus downtown. It's always funny when a fight breaks out between one black and another black, and then 3 or 4 other blacks jump in, and they all start fighting each other, and nobody involved is on anybody else's side, maybe one black guy was helping another one fight that other black guy, and then they will both turn to fight each other once they get a chance. Comedy gold! The absolute best part is the scowls and even verbal scolds I get from white "progressive" "nonconformist" women, who always have septum piercings and multi-colored dyed hair when I pull out my phone to call the police.

The local crime news also has daily articles about the amazing vibrant never-ending benefits of the "black community", which is "our greatest strength".

"the Black mothers who have lost their children to gun violence?"
To other blacks, almost always. You left out that very important detail.

"And I ask: Has fear ever saved us?"

My "fear" of your "sons and grandsons" has saved me from being stabbed downtown more than once. Previously, before my "fear", I once got randomly stabbed (4 times) for no reason by someone "who could have been Obama's son", that's all it took. I got all my "progressivism" and "white guilt" stabbed out of me. It didn't help my "progressivism" or "hippieness" that he called me a "white motherfucker" while he was stabbing me out of the blue.

"When trans children lose access to healthcare?"

Good

"Because hope is not naïve."

Yes it absolutely is. Naivete is actually the main problem with "progressives", especially the white ones.

@3 The grown-ups are the working class, Phil with your make-believe Hollywood photo of a guy you don't resemble at all. They're the ones giving you the hand-out, not the reverse.

I like Bruce as a person better than Katie, based on some things I've seen in her campaign, but the rent is too damn high and Bruce is taking too much real estate money, and we do indeed to tax the rich.

We're paying a yet another hefty rent increase - and on the eve of this election - which I was notified about as soon as they passed rent control at the state level, and which has followed another hefty rent increase disguised as fees. And we've had other hefty rent increases under Bruce.

Plus we pay extraordinary electric bills which for years we haven't been able get anyone to do anything about at the city level or with the proverbial landlords, and much of which has looked, frankly, quite illegal.

Plus the job market sucks in Seattle, as much as some pretend otherwise, and not everybody has the perfect shining resume either (like Bruce, for ex), meaning maybe some of us don't identify with some of your criticism of Katie's.

So, despite my earlier posted concerns about Katie, which still hold true, so does the old adage, "it's complicated" ... and ... at the end of the day, this election is a class war so we're voting with the working class for Katie Wilson.