Posted on 11/18/2025 9:42:56 AM PST by John Semmens
Seattle's Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that "access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities and close stores that will leave behind food deserts. Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural, supermarkets create them when they abandon our communities. We need to require these food vendors to give 90 days advance notice for mass layoffs and fair severance pay for laid off workers."
"If too many privately owned food vendors close we will have to provide a publicly-owned alternative," she added. "To help ensure that folks who can't afford to live here get the government aid they need to live here I will appoint members to my cabinet who are Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Latinx, LGBTQ, and Asian. In other words, people who are committed to diversity equity and inclusion. We will remain a sanctuary city where the tired, poor, and work-averse foreigners can live without the fear or stress of having to support themselves."
Warned that her proposed policies might inspire an exodus of profit-making businesses and self-supporting taxpayers, Wilson expressed confidence that "the citizens who elected me will support the woke agenda I am prepared to carry out. Otherwise, they would've voted for my opponent."
I’m not a lawyer, but I play one on FR.
What possible standing does she have to force a private enterprise to operate at a loss?
The result of such policies will inevitably be government-run grocery stores. Then you’ll be in big trouble.
No market is worth this. I close shop in 30 days.
She can’t stop ‘em.
She has no mechanism or leverage for that.
100% pure D bullsh!t.
How very Atlas Shrugged of them.................
” I close shop in 30 days.”
Stop all incoming inventory. Sell what’s on the shelf, and close shop.
Or
"Elections have consequences." -- Barack Obama
That's the thing -- when Democrats win, they get carte blanche and can do anything they want. They won. Deal with it. But it's different when Republicans win. Because no one likes those guys and so you don't have to do what they say, right?
they might if the city owns the building, but if a chain comes in, buys the property and builds it’s building, then you have no standing.
Thought Communism meant everything was free?
“Food deserts are not natural, supermarkets create them when they abandon our communities.”
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Wrong.
Food deserts are created when communities create an environment where businesses can no longer operate profitably and safely, resulting from criminals who don’t pay for goods and intimidate workers and patrons, and their governments who refuse to properly apprehend and punish those criminals.
massive government debt showered upon woke cities at least two generations has eventually corrupted peoples’ morals, and logic.
From her acceptance speech, “Property should be owned by the community not the corporations”
That’s why she says a corporation needs to ask for the mayor’s permission to operate or close.
She can probably steal the property how does she mean to force people to work there? I seem to recall a term for forcing people to work as directed without compensation.
Stop all incoming inventory. Sell what’s on the shelf, and close shop.
DO it without remorse. Layoff EVERYONE. If you own the property, suitable for CITY owned grocery store, put a massive price tag on it.
If PRIVATE business doesn’t ensure ALL of these SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST Mayor’s fail this cancer will spread.
Can the mayor stop them from doubling the price on every item in the store?
” a sanctuary city where the tired, poor, and work-averse foreigners can live”
My favorite line, nice going John!
In addition to the losses due to shoplifting, these stores have an increasingly difficult time finding employees willing to risk their lives working there.
What is it called when government owns businesses?
Cuba
Boy is she in for a surprise!
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