Voters swept Heidi Wills out of her city council seat in 2003 after the “Strippergate” scandal broke. That story involved Wills and two other council members taking money from people who sounded like mob goons in exchange for voting to expand a parking lot at a North End strip club. Wills now says she’s learned her lesson about taking money and holding meetings with shady characters, but we’re not convinced.
When asked for her opinion on Mom’s for Seattle—a shadowy PAC that has used mailers with photoshopped images to spread fear about homeless people, and that is fronted by four extremely wealthy women—Wills ducked and dodged before admitting she’d only read a little bit about the group in ParentMap. So far, the group has supported Wills by spending more than $46,000 on her behalf—the largest outlay from an independent expenditure supporting her campaign to date—and she hasn’t even given them a good Google search yet? Sorry, we’re not buying it.