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Ooops! My bad!
60.6%
Cary Moon
39.4%
Nikkita clearly would have crushed Durkan!
55.4%
Englund
44.6%
Significant.
Good.
8:18 PM — okay minute
8:19 PM — great minute
Just because.
Of course, she better stick to her “no income tax" pledge, popular with moderates, or the Republicans will take back the WA senate.
Good Stuff! Pulitzers all around.
(How does a person enrich their life through posting multiple nyah-nyah comments per hour about the frickin Seattle mayoral race? Huh.)
Agreed. Here is my vote for the money quote:
From the front row of supporters waiting for Jenny Durkan to speak, the SECB heard someone sneer “defeated urban planner Cary Moon.”
I'm sure folks from the outfit which endorsed both of Durkan's closest opponents were standing close enough to hear that clearly and intelligibly. Of course they were.
Ha, funny. No Nikkita would've been crushed. Not 60-40; more like 80-20.
Jessyn Farrell was the only candidate that could have beaten Durkan. She was the only one that was actually more qualified to be mayor, and was willing to differentiate herself from Durkan. But she never got out of the primary, in part because The Stranger ignored her candidacy. Sometimes I think The Stranger editorial staff doesn't want to win anymore -- they just want to complain from the sidelines.
Second, are the Democrats going to actually get some shit done, or will they drag their feet even with thelr legislative majorities?
Is the Stranger really that influential?
The mayor absolutely does not have the power to establish municipal broadband in Seattle-- go read the city charter again.
That's a job for the council, and anyone serious about pushing it through would be running for one of the citywide council seats in this election.
@29
The Stranger, weirdly, is the only news outlet with any appreciable readership in the city that wouldn't just outright endorse Republicans, if there were any available. That leaves "the only paper that matters" with a wildly disproportionate influence; since The Times and the local TV stations seem to have absolutely zero interest in the large majority of Seattle voters who lean left, The Stranger, in all its nepotistic glory, is the only outlet left to turn to come election time for a lot of Seattle's citizens.
"Bu - but, white people make up 70% of the population here - WE NEED MORE WHITE PEOPLEZ IN POWER!"
@40 Who said that? I am just making the point that a representative body should, you know, be representative.
Given the historic make up of the City Council (almost exclusively white males) for the past 150 years, you've had more than your fair share of representation.