Over the last 30 years, the business candidate ALWAYS wins. Murray and Durkan essentially excused themselves from their races, protracting the one-term curse. McGinn of course was the one exception, but he ticked off the WA Democratic establishment so quick as to be very ineffective. The analysis here misses a possibility of a business-ier candidate entering the fray. Maybe not a tech bro type, but the bread and butter brick and mortar guy (or gal) that resonates on the “pragmatic” front, out in community with the rest of us.

Or someone who will run on reducing household taxes

Harrell is a political juggernaut in this town. It's fairly clear to me labor et al have decided they have a significantly better chance picking off Davison and Nelson than trying to dislodge Harrell given their resources aren't infinite enough to commit to all three.

@1 anyone who tries to run to the right of Harrell will only embarrass themselves, especially given he's already consolidated support

@3 labor doesn’t care about the city attorney race. Turns out they are not big on shoplifting, drug use and assault either.

@4 MLK Labor and the major local unions all endorsed NTK last time, why do you say now they don't care?

@5 How much did they actually spend? Actions mean more than words.

Maybe NTK should run for mayor?

I'm betting The Stranger will endorse some candidate with "lived experiences" and that loves to say "fuck" and "eat the rich" a lot.

Bruce is only 'pro business' so much as he isn't blatantly intent upon destroying or expropriating it. It only seems like he's a corporate shill from the POV of the way left. Nobody ever gets everything they want* in politics but if both business and labor think Bruce is doing an 'okay' job and he's almost reaching half approval rating which in this day and age is astronomical then they way I see it - Keep it rolling Bruce.

im a landlord

Bruce is only 'pro business' so much as he isn't blatantly intent upon destroying or expropriating it. It only seems like he's a corporate shill from the POV of the way left. Nobody ever gets everything they want* in politics but if both business and labor think Bruce is doing an 'okay' job and he's almost reaching half approval rating which in this day and age is astronomical then they way I see it - Keep it rolling Bruce.

im a landlord

asterisks got stripped from my last comment. after "nobody gets" sentence and before "Im a"

@9 -- "Nobody
ever gets everything
they want* in politics "

utter Nonsense.
'centrist' & Corporate
Dems handed 'our' (formerly-)
Supreme Court, fucking Congress
(Both sides!), and now the Presidency
over to the whacky unhinged Capitalists

the 'way left' has been
deserted by the Corporatists
who've (legally! ffs) Bought this
Country, lock, stock, crate & barrel

even tho the Policies
Championed by Democratic Socialist
Vermont Senator Bernie fucking Sanders
are favored Overwhelmingly. your crocodile

tears
notwithstanding.

*'re
Expensive
here at the Stranger
feel Lucky you got one.

@11: “…even tho the Policies
Championed by Democratic Socialist
Vermont Senator Bernie fucking Sanders
are favored Overwhelmingly.”

Bernie’s policy, of not calling Gaza a “genocide,” has been DISfavored Overwhelmingly here at the Stranger, by both headline posters, and by supportive commenters.

So, you’re angry at other persons, for their having followed the example you’ve set?

good ole
wormmy, who
never ceases to fail
to Not Bring Up his
Arch nemesis~the one
who Broke Wormtongue's

brain:
Kashama
fucking Sawant

inducing likely
Thee Worst Case
of Kshamaswant De-
Ragement Syndrome known
to mankind. like rfKennedyjr's
brainworm, wormmy (see what
I Did there, wormmy?), Kshama's
living rent fucking Free right There
& right betwixt your pointy little ears

where's she got
plenty enough Room
to lie down and lounge
around maybe take a swim
in all the smoothenesses there

but why aren't you Out
celebrating Jesus' Birthday
wormmy? and all the Dead
babies in Palestine? after All
it May not even Be Genocide

it's
rapidly
turning in-
to Omnicide.

and
All on
your Ap-
proving Watch.

well
done,
Wormtongue:

bibi's
taking it
beyond Genocide:

fucking
Omnicide.
have Fun with
That one wormmy.

it's
ALL
yours.

@13: I did not mention Sawant in this thread. Your fixation on your self-defeated heroin(e) remains yours alone. It appears you can deal with that about as well as you can deal with published-author Bernie’s guidance on words.

BTW, as your use of words remains clear and comprehensible as ever, by “omnicide,” do you intend to say the IDF will now kill all humans — or all living creatures — in Gaza, or are you just angry the Israelis have done as good a job at crippling Hezbollah as they have of reducing Hamas?

I think more people recognize that replacing Sara Nelson is probably more important and cost effective right now than Harrell... And as the most hated member of city government right now, she is the "lowest hanging fruit"

so
sorry
wormmy
but What
were you sayin

oh right
bibi's moved on from
dropping 2Klbs Bunker Busters
atop Palestine to Mass Starvation
and Famine, NO WATER, NO MEDICAL
FACILITIES RAMPANT DiSEASES sheltering
in fucking Tents ("they oughtta be Happy!")
and they likely all have Tentsores too wormmy.

so
Technically
it may not as of Yet
be OMNICIDE but bibi
always Did like to skirt the edges.

it's
just
the Natural
Progression. right?

I think Sara Nelson will win. Bruce will easily win and Ann Davison will win if she decides to run again. What are progressives and the far left going to say about Ann? "She's been making this city far safer due to jailing drug dealers and drug users". That's more like an endorsement that'll win her more votes.

@16: Words mean things, no matter how much pain that idea causes you. "Omnicide" literally means "murder of all," so I asked just how far "all" went in this context. Of course you didn't answer, because you neither know the meanings of the words you use, nor do you care. They're just rhetorical clubs for you to beat and bully other persons (or try to, anyway...), and the fancier your clubs look and sound, the more effective you believe them to be. (You're wrong about that, too, and occasionally even you can no longer deny it. That's when the fun really starts.)