Posted on 05/20/2026 11:03:43 PM PDT by Libloather
Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific City.
Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses, including Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee.
The democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses.
“I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either,” she whined in November, according to KUOW.
But several months later, Wilson appeared to walk back her statement.
“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” she told the New York Times.
Wilson also told the outlet she’s aware that everything she says could be used as possible anti-business missives, and she needs to have a “multidimensional relationship” with corporations like the coffee giant.
Starbucks recently revealed it was going to build a 2,000-person corporate office in Nashville, which fueled concern that the business could leave its hometown high and dry.
Seattle City Council Member Rob Saka told the Times he is “gravely concerned” about the loss of business.
“This is real,” he said.
Wilson insisted this week that her office and Starbucks have a good relationship, and the snub in favor of Nashville was not a surprise, the outlet reported. Starbucks was also a sponsor for a new tiny house homeless shelter that was announced earlier this month, according to KOMO.
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Commies like Mayor Katie Wilson have one big Achilles Heel: Capitalism has its limits.
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I’m the same. I started drinking coffee as a young broke college student because of free refills. My tastes haven’t changed much since then.
A couple years ago I was dropping an out of town colleague off at his hotel that had a Starbuck’s next door. He asked me if I wanted a cup in the morning when I picked him up.
“Nope. I hate Starbucks coffee. Instead, here’s my insulated cup. Fill it up with hotel coffee.”
That’s how I roll.
That’s how puppets work.
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One word to this lesbian communist mayor, “BYE!”
She lives in a world of her own, where everyone just gets along and there are no consequences for stupidity.
She knows what she’s doing.
It’s The Curley Effect, drive out the producers, so that all that remains are the people who will vote for you.
Then eventually when every big city has a Communist for mayor, they can bring the country to its knees.
You don’t get to walk back comments like that when your the Mayor.
“Sorry, didn’t mean it.”
Seattle and Wilson have left Starbucks and many other businesses high and dry. When the mayor leads a boycott of your business it’s time to leave.
I don’t care where Starbucks moves, their coffee still sucks.
The Commies only understand capturing and selling humans and blaming.
Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson vs. Starbucks?
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Like “to froooog”.
“she needs to have a “multidimensional relationship” with corporations”
A multidimensional relationship is where one marriage partner abuses (physically or mentally) the other spouse. One needs to walk away,
She isn’t changing her mind at all about what she really thinks about Starbucks and other companies.
She is the whore who will hate her clients but will bury her face in the pillow because she needs the money.
Drives me crazy how the Right keeps saying “liberal”. Liberals are almost non existent on the left. They’ve been replaced by violent collectivists. The Right is actually far more liberal than the left these days. FR has many posters that still provide cover to this destructive death cult by calling them “liberals”.
How can you defeat an enemy that is constantly misidentified?
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She shouldn’t back down.
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