Remember when we said it’d be “our dream come true” to have the Seattle City Council elected through a district system, and then demanded you vote for the idea? Yeah, we don’t either. But the internet tells us it happened a couple years back, and look—district elections are finally here! Good job, stoners!
And hey, it turns out we were right back in 2013 when we wrote that district elections would be a glorious, incumbent-rattling shitshow. Just the threat of district elections scared two shitty incumbents and one decent one—Tom “NIMBY Love” Rasmussen, Nick “NIMBY Like” Licata, and Sally “I Can’t Decide” Clark—into early retirement. (We’re going to miss you, Nick.) There are now 47 shitstains hopefuls running to represent one of seven geographical districts or one of two citywide council seats. Hooray for democracy and delusions of electability! And hooray for some new blood to take on everything that’s fucking up life in Seattle right now, from out-of-control rents to out-of-control cops to out-of-commission tunnel-boring machines…
