Are you implying that the six women on the city council will be voting as a bloc? That would be cool. Bagshaw could use a little more Sawant in her.

All the lady neoliberals in the front say NOOOO SINGLE PAAAYER

All the lady neoliberals in the back say YESSSS HOMELESS SWEEPS

All the socialist ladies named Sawant say NOOOTHING because you're not included in this list for some reason.

God this paper fucking sucks now.

I'm extremely glad about the progress that women have made in Puget Sound politics. The national pendulum is gonna swing back hard in 2018 and 2020, and we can serve as an inspiration for future leaders around the nation.

@2: Yeah, that's about right, sadly.

That's great and all but remember that the absence of a Y chromosome doesn't automatically equal good politician (e.g., Sarah Palin, Margaret Thatcher, etc.)

While I understand the drive to create proportionate representation at the national level, the local demographics (per Wiki) are:

According to the 2010 United States Census, Seattle had a population of 608,660 with a racial and ethnic composition as follows:[15]

White: 69.5% (Non-Hispanic Whites: 66.3%)

Asian: 13.8% (4.1% Chinese, 2.6% Filipino, 2.2% Vietnamese, 1.3% Japanese, 1.1% Korean, 0.8% Indian, 0.3% Cambodian, 0.3% Laotian, 0.2% Pakistanis, 0.2% Indonesian, 0.2% Thai)
Black or African American: 7.9%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 9.0% (4.0% Mexican, 2.3% Puerto Rican, 1.3% Colombian, 0.2% Guatemalan, 0.2% Salvadoran, 0.2% Cuban)
American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.8%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.4%
Other race: 2.4%
Two or more races: 5.1%

Here is the 2016 census data link:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/t…

@5, In our back yard, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Susan Hutchinson, and Pam Roach.

@1, They did that to strike down Chris Hansen's street vacation for SODO Arena, but I believe they had their own agendas and political obligations in mind rather than gender unity and sound public policy.

Well we’ve done the “Will and Grace” gay leadership sitcom. Time to try the “Sex in the City” leadership now. Which one will be accused by a male for sexual misconduct first?

Eh, more than twenty years ago, Seattle's City Council had no white males. Mayor Rice, King County Executive Ron Sims, and Gov. Gary Locke were not white guys, either. And the '90s were a great time to live in Seattle.

I did like Durkan's echo of President-Elect Obama's joke about electing a black guy when there were huge problems to face.

Which one will be accused by a male for sexual misconduct first?

I'm betting against the Mayor on this one.

@9
The 90's were nice. The social justice nonsense was kept in check by sane centrists, and goofy twitter witch hunts didn't exist.

P.S. Yesterday's liberal is today's conservative. Let's see it Durkan can do anything other than shovel money at cronies. Did she know about Murray's - ahem - issues before the public?

Did she know about Murray's - ahem - issues before the public?

She took his endorsement and won decisively. It appears Seattle's voters care about different - ahem - issues than does Seattle's idiotic chattering political class.

Ah yes, it's about time that things are basically the same as they were before! Yay progress!

Manka Dhingra was also sworn in today. She doesn't represent Seattle (though she was accused of having Seattle values). She might have warranted a mention. First Sikh in the state legislature.

The fewer men in office, the less gross the scandals are. That alone makes it all worth it.

@3 Original Andrew: Let's certainly hope so! Let the Matriarchy begin and never cease!
@5 Urgutha Forka: Yes, but Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher aren't here in Washington State, let alone Seattle. Thank heavens. If only we could boot out Pam Roach and Cathy McMorris-Rodgers. As for chromosomes, I'd only have to look at my ex and wonder why.
@14 hist_ed: Thank you. I was just going to mention Manka Dhingra. Although you're technically right--she mainly represents the 45th District, she is one of us. And thank all of you who commendably did your civic duty, joining me and others to VOTE and bring much desperately needed change for the better for those of us in the 99.999%.

@12: I make of it that you're really, really frustrated at Seattle's voters, because we didn't fall for the false accusations of rape against Murray. We didn't demand his resignation, we didn't demand our City Council impeach him, and we easily gave our Mayor's Office to his hand-picked successor. While each action -- and all of them in total -- outraged our idiotic chattering political class, our election result has to be our most deeply infuriating act to anyone who fell for the swindle. Durkan was clearly the best choice, based upon experience in government and the issues she'd addressed there. That choosing her also showed Murray hadn't actually been damaged politically -- now that must enrage anyone and everyone who tried to smear him.

Ed Murray was a shitty Mayor.

@2 Haha yeah, I wondered what was up with that.

Liberals feel much better about themselves when a woman is greenlighting sweeps on homeless camps or bombing places they hardly knew two days ago in Libya.

@19:

If the current occupant of the White House had ordered the airstrikes on Libya, like he seems hell-bent on doing SOMEWHERE in the world right now, you'd have pumped your fists so hard shouting "'MURKA, FUCK YEAH!" that you would probably have dislocated your elbows.

Blatant feminist supremacy propaganda in a city that is increasingly more male than female. At the national level there is an imbalance. In Seattle this "PoC/Woman" majority is an artificial attempt to remedy national politics by overcompensation.

I could also reference the dozens of pieces from the Stranger that rant about the city being full of "tech bros" and "turning very white" from gentrification. Oh well, liberals are consistent only their inconsistencies. Inshallah.

@21 uh, no. I don't like American military expeditions, period.

I will note that Hillary backed up that monster when he started his worthless murdering in Syria. They seem to like a lot of the same terrible stuff like giving the country away to elites and war, Trump just likes a lot of other terrible things too. It doesn't make her or Patty Maurry any good just because he's worse.

@24
Kshama, you really need to edit a bit and use paragraphs, but perhaps that would be too "fascist".

Tell us more about how people are equal yet women have magical powers.

Good governance, like good chess playing, math, or carpentry results from clear thinking and proper application of policy and the ability to motivate subordinates. These kinds of utopian fantasies such as yours are an insult to women already in leadership. The nature of power, greed, and human desire will not change magically because women lead instead of men. I support proportionate representation because of it's democratic merits, but your "world peace" word salad is incredibly insane, almost as insane as labeling people with whom you disagree "fascist/nazis".

Why did you leave out Sheriff-elect Mitzi Johanknecht?

@26 Typographer: Yeah! Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about Sheriff-Elect Mitzi Johankneckt. Let the Matriarchal list keep on expanding.

@19 & @23 Agrippa: It doesn't sound like you know much about women, much less Hillary Clinton or Senator Patty Murray.
@27: Aiigghh--I am so bad with typos and mispronunciations! Make that Sheriff-Elect
Mitzi Johanknecht.

Hillary lept up and down about Syria days before Donald bombed them and then said it was good. There is nothing unfactual about this you are just slinging shit.

I don't like Murray's health care stance. I know enough about her that she's not on the left unless it suitably fits her optics and doesn't effect here MASSIVE donation base from insurance companies and pharma.

@28 Doesn't sound like you have any facts to counter what I said about Hillary.... and I'm really not sure why the statement I made about liberals and their optics has anything to do with women in general so stop playing it that way.

Ed Murray was a shitty Mayor.

Thank you for doing your absolute best to elevate our political discourse with your expert analysis.

But you know what? Murray's predecessor, McGinn, was an epic incompetent. So we voted him out of office. We didn't accuse him of rape, we didn't wring our hankies over how damaging his supposed rapes had been, and we didn't demand his resignation. We just voted him out of office. (When his epic incompetence meant he still didn't get it, we voted him down in this year's primary election.)

That's how a civilized society rids itself of "shitty" elected officials: we vote them out of office. A civilized society does not change leaders via assassination, which includes character assassination. That latter point is the one you really, really need to learn, because Seattle's citizens are way, way ahead of you on it.