My neighbors and I would like a CM who is responsive to their constituents and advocates for a clean and well-run city. Stuff like fighting institutional racism should be a given.

A council position is not just a platform for advocacy. There's definitely a place for that, but their primary reason for being there is to make sure the trash gets picked up and all the other boring stuff that makes a city run.

• someone who will return calls/ emails.
• someone available to the residents of the district, and will hold regular forums within the district at local school/libraries to hear comments/questions/concerns once a week.
• someone who will form and lead a bimonthly clean-up/beautification in our many troubled hot spots.
• someone willing to stand up to the continual "International District/Chinatown/Rainier/Columbia city" doesn't matter, because no one there speaks english.
• someone not afraid of their own shadow, who is willing to call out the posturing and virtue signaling of fellow council members when needed.
• someone who will snub this publication always.

“Who Does District 2 Want to Fill Their Seat?”

Who cares? It’s not their decision right now. When Morales quit, she left the decision with the very persons she was complaining about. That’s on her, for stiffing the very voters who believed — wrongly, as it turned out — that she would do the job.

The Council will pick someone now. The voters will pick someone at the next election. That’s what Seattle’s charter requires. All else is meaningless chatter.

1 and #2 - nailed it.

@2 "• someone who will return calls/ emails.
• someone not afraid of their own shadow, who is willing to call out the posturing and virtue signaling of fellow council members when needed.
• someone who will snub this publication always."

So respond to calls and emails and don't virtue signal, except do virtue signal by not responding to The Stranger's calls and emails. Cool.

Still dumping on Tanya Woo?
Maybe it’s time to move on from that complaint line.
Yes to @1 and @2. Fewer gunshots and fewer potholes.
More funding for community services (parks, community centers) available to our diverse part of Seattle. Someone else (from their million plus dollar houses in Wallingford or North Beach) can do the virtue signaling.

Solomon won. Poor Brett Hamil. Oh well. Also too bad it makes Nathalie's entire exercise here not just moot, but also irrelevant. Le sigh.

I think it's interesting that soon after Morales left, the city started a daily disinfection of 12th Ave S, from Jackson to the Dr. Jose Risal bridge, along with the side streets (King and Weller). Big SDOT tanker trucks full of some sort of soapy solution spray everything down, with SPD monitoring it. It's a vast improvement, but there's one business that I think is dealing drugs.

@7 it's pretty funny that after being accused of looking for the new Woo the conservative Council lived down to expectations by chosing another person who ran against and lost to Morales. Good news is he has a demonstrated inability to beat a progressive so D2 can probably look forward to a Rinck-esque CM after the next election.

@9 - Solomon stated he will nor run for election. So the content of the next D2 candidate slate is wide open.

*not run

@10: Shhhhh, if thirteen12 had wanted to mention that, he would have learned about the candidates. Right now, he really, really just needs to fantasize about future progressive victories.

That would depend on which candidate banged the correct Stranger writer.

@12 -- Reminds me of a Manic Street Preachers lyric:

And on the street tonight, an old man plays / With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

@5 Virtue signaling would be forcing the council to vote on 'caste systems' or 'stances on Gaza'. Replying to emails and phone calls from their constituents in District 2 is their job.

@15 Bingo!