Andrew J. Lewis Ah yes, District 7, the downtown district where Seattleites will be forced to choose between a cop (albeit a progressive cop) and a prosecutor (albeit a union-strong prosecutor).
The difference between former Seattle police chief Jim Pugel and assistant city attorney Andrew Lewis comes down to taxes and up-zones. In a recent questionnaire, Pugel threw in with Queen Anne’s dreaded NIMBYs and outright opposed up-zoning. He’s also shy about taxing big businesses for homeless services.
By way of contrast, Lewis is open to legalizing apartments in places where rich white people live, despite their fear of brown people and rowdy youths moving in and destroying the “neighborhood character.” And although Lewis, too, is against the head tax, in our endorsement meeting he said “there could be a scenario” where he would support a head tax. That was arguably a better answer than the one Pugel gave, though it was complete lawyer-talk bullshit.