"Plus, business interests, whom Murray will need on his side come reelection next year, don't love this initiative."

The fuck are you talking about? Murray already has plenty of business interests on his side, and his loyalties are with pharma, tech firms, and real estate, not hotels. Hotels were McGinn's game, and you might remember that he lost to Murray.

The only risk to Ed Murray's reelection bid is a mayor named Ed Murray, who sells out his constituency to foreign investors and shies away from conversation about police brutality. If he's not actively doling out homes for the homeless or reparations for the families torn apart by SPD, then he's not doing shit worth mentioning.