The ultimate shrewdness is found not in the balance sheet, but in the qualitative excellence of the business.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 5
Katie Wilson, a community organizer and first-time candidate who pushed for higher taxes on the wealthy, will be Seattle’s next mayor, unseating the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, who conceded on Thursday following one of the tightest elections in the city’s history.
Ms. Wilson’s election is a Pacific Coast victory for progressive Democrats that matches Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York.
“I wished her well,” Mr. Harrell said after speaking to the victor. “It was a very delightful conversation. I feel very good about the future of this country and this city still. That is the attitude we have to have.”
Ms. Wilson is a co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, an advocacy group behind a number of local measures to expand transit access, increase renter protections and add housing through new and higher taxes on the rich. She had never sought public office before this year, and was prompted to enter Seattle’s mayoral race only after the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, became the public face of an effort to block a new tax on high earners to pay for housing construction.
Ms. Wilson, 43, is a Pacific Northwest avatar of the generational and ideological shifts rocking the Democratic Party. She lives with her husband and 2-year-old daughter in a rented 600-square-foot apartment, does not own a car and presented herself to voters as a champion of people, particularly Millennial and Generation Z voters, who expect to spend their lives struggling to do as well as their parents did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/sea...
No. of Recommendations: 1
Great now Seattle has a West Coast Mamdani.
Just what they needed.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Seattle voter here.
The incumbent mayor - who’s kind of a jerk - ran his campaign on the basis of of “C’mon - you voters know you’re gonna vote for me in the end”.
He then proceeded to not really campaign that hard. And lost.
Wilson has never had a real job
and there are doubts she ever finished college. She gets checks from her parents every month.
No. of Recommendations: 5
She gets checks from her parents every month.
So does Trump.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Didn't Ms. Wilson say she was going to stop grocery stores from leaving Seattle?
Is this the same kind of magical thinking @ Mamdani with his "free" bus rides that apparently cost $800 million to fund and Gov. of NYS Hochul has said, "Not so much," since it's actually the State that would have to fund it?
No. of Recommendations: 2
Didn't Ms. Wilson say she was going to stop grocery stores from leaving Seattle?
She did say that, yep (and for those lefties reading, no, yo can’t compel someone to stay).
No. of Recommendations: 2
She did say that, yep (and for those lefties reading, no, yo can’t compel someone to stay).
Did she actually mean she was going to stop individual grocery stores from leaving?
Or did she mean (even if in-artfully stated) that she was going to find ways to prevent urban areas from becoming food deserts?
No. of Recommendations: 1
wzambon,
Wilson was quoted as saying the following: "We cannot allow big grocery chains to close stores at will!"
Now, I guess this can be interpreted in a variety of different ways.
Mostly, it sounds as delusional as Mamdani's free bus rides for NYC. Maybe even more delusional.
In both cases, it seems to indicate an utter lack of understanding of our political, economic, and legal systems, on a very fundamental level.
No. of Recommendations: 1
She wants "public option" grocery stores, whatever that means. I'm looking for the exact quote in context...
No. of Recommendations: 1
This is actually perfect.
We now have two Communist dummies as mayors in major high profile cities on both the left and the right coasts.
Let's give them a chance to establish their ScrewTopias and see how everything shakes out.
No. of Recommendations: 2
At least Wilson doesn't seem like a raging jerk (as Mamdani seems to be).
No. of Recommendations: 4
She wants "public option" grocery stores, whatever that means.
I couldn't find that exact quote. But she has a plan to address "food deserts". Apparently you have restrictive covenants that can encourage such, and she is tearing them down. Here's the AI result:
AI Overview
Seattle's mayor and city council are tackling potential food deserts by passing legislation that bans restrictive covenants, which can prevent new grocery stores from opening in locations where a store has closed. This new law aims to ensure that a new grocery store can easily move into an existing location, and it is not about creating a "public option" grocery store.
Legislation: A recent law unanimously approved by the City Council prohibits a grocery store owner from blocking a competitor from opening in the same location using restrictive covenants.
Goal: The legislation's goal is to ensure that when a grocery store closes, a new one can more easily fill that space, making it easier for residents to access food and medicine.
"Public option" vs. "private option": This is not a government-run or "public option" store, but rather a way to encourage the private market to fill the vacant space by removing barriers to entry for new or competing grocery stores.
