Mayor Durkan did not change the rules for MDARs. That was a rumor. Morales needs to start checking facts other than Twitter if she is going to be a competent council member. Lester should have corrected it also. That's 2 strikes today for Lester.

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Why does it matter what her husbands occupation or what his race is?

You progressive racism is showing.

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lmfao @ Nikita Oliver....you mean that clueless professional couch surfer?

By the way, who is paying all of Nikita’s bills??? She sure travels a lot, especially without a real paying job.

Just sayin.....

“Things are changing. There’s a lot of… land value speculation. People are selling land for way more than the market value because they know that change is coming. And that leaves out community organizations because immediately they can’t afford land anymore.”

Ummm - last time I checked, the sales price of land WAS the market value. If she knows people who are willing to pay "way more" than market, I'd like to make them a deal.

Please tell me the "white women should step down , even though they beat her in the election, and let Nikita Oliver have the position" crowd is not starting up again.

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If Oliver does get into the race, expect her to be used as clickbait, like she was in the Mayoral primary. There's never been a serious examination of her academic record, 'work' (I use that term very loosely in this case) or even her "spoken word art." She was manifestly unqualified to be Mayor of a City with a $6 Billion budget (she can't even manage her own). Oliver's campaign would have merited a Dunning-Kruger Prize, were there one. Nothing in her public activity (before or) since indicates that she'd be able to effectively fulfill the responsibilities of a Councilperson, such as they are. But she has a narrative, and she's sticking to it.

But, yeah, expect that demands will be made that "It's her turn" or something like that.

Lord help us all.

What a surprise, no mention of Ari Hoffman, the only candidate with real private sector experience. Apparently only community organizers and socialists need apply these days.

@10 It's not really surprising that politicians showing factual commitment to public service and the welfare of their constituents have an easier time earning credibility

No more socialists, thanks...especially those who think that letting homeless people live amongst their own filth and rats is better than cleaning the site up. It's not like we don't let them go right back, anyway. Our collective public health is worth more than the inconvenience of having adults go in and clean up the mess. That said, she's right about building housing -- but I want to know that our homeless friends will even agree to move in before we spend hundreds of millions to build it. Lots of work to do.

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Yeah, just what we need. Another over-privileged virtue-signaler who thinks rhetoric is action.

Hoffman is promising nonsense. He wants to cut taxes while increasing spending. The only spending cut he proposes are in bike lanes. Bike lanes? The city spends pennies on bike lanes (he overstates how much they cost). Meanwhile, he blames the city for cost overruns on the light rail line, ignoring the fact that it is a different agency in charge. He criticizes the city for the streetcar, ignoring the fact that the previous administration was responsible for it, as well as the lies surrounding it (the current administration has simply paused it, and asked for the type of investigation he seems to support).

All in all, it is typical Seattle Times style bullshit. There are a handful of ideas that are sensible, but like many (even so called moderate) Republicans, he drifts into bullshit land pretty quickly, whining about taxes and regulations without offering up real solutions.

“Morales said the city needs to be doing more to make sure that the residents and businesses of District 2 are able to stay in the neighborhood even as it changes.“

Why? What purpose would that serve? (Or, in other words, what would inhibiting the influx of new residents and businesses accomplish?)

“Morales said the city is not making progress on fighting homelessness ...”

Has she read the Poppe Report? Has she reviewed the city’s metrics on implementing the recommendations in the Poppe Report?

“She said she opposes sweeping homeless people in almost all situations and said Mayor Jenny Durkan has wrongly increased these sweeps.”

How else do we mitigate the public health and safety hazards of these encampments?

Tammy Morales is Mike O'Brien in a dress.

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Considering the recent nearly 50 percent growth in the city budget, the addition of some 1,300 employees by Ed Murray, and the manifest failure of the City to meet budgets or program goals, why shouldn't someone be asking whether we're spending too much? I'd wager there's a whole lotta fat in the City budget. Boston gets by with what, half as much?

And the SCC just wants to spend more. It's time for someone with a sense of fiscal responsibility.

The Beacon Hill Library was an investment made by all of Seattle's taxpayers twenty years ago, when we voted to supply every neighborhood with a new, modern library branch. Sounds like it's working pretty well for the residents of Beacon Hill:

"A group of kids were reading in the children’s area, none of them were white. The adults sitting at computers are browsing through shelves of books were equally diverse."

Meeting in such a setting, the word "education" never appears; the only reference to education is how expensive it is at the college level. (Plenty of new spending gets advocated, however.) I suggest we look at candidates who actually have their priorities ordered properly.

More tedious bull shit from the chamber of commerce etc. crowd. Screeching about budgets and the like. People are dying in the streets now. We have the richest people on the planet here getting benefits from the city government from working poor peoples taxes and other not wealthy. There are destitute persons who can’t even afford a roof over their head in the middle of winter. You are nineteenth century. The mayor was paid for because the wealthy and their allies wanted her in and didn’t want anyone in who wouldn’t take corporate money, How do you sleep at night? You only care about money and power and if anyone disagrees you have to try desperately to discredit them like you are doing now. And kicking people while they are down seems to be your favorite hobby. Disgusting that is what you are.

These sweeps are not dealing with positive housing options they are forcing people back on the streets and criminalizing poverty. Also violating international human rights.