Posted on 07/18/2020 3:21:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan rebuffed the Seattle City Council this week, laying out her own plans to reduce the police budget by about 20% and calling the Council's plan for considerably larger cuts "irresponsible."
So what does it all mean politically?
We asked our Friday politics team Joni Balter, host of civic cocktail on the Seattle Channel, and C.R. Douglas, political analyst for Q 13 News.
Paige Browning: Joni, what did you make of Durkan’s announcement?
Joni Balter: I thought it made a lot of sense. You know, the mayor has to be the adult in the room, she has to get a grip on leading if she wants respect. Her best point at that press conference was that the council members agreed to a 50% reduction without even consulting Police Chief Carmen Best. In other words, they didn't properly consider unintended consequences like whether they may harm younger officers of color or whether that would interfere with the city's response to the consent decree. I will quote Councilmember Debora Juarez, one of the two council members who didn't agree to 50%: "We need a plan, not a percentage."
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Well as in a lot places the divisions of government have for got their roles.
A strong council would tell the mayor here’s the budget live with it.
The Seattle police are already underfunded, overworked, and unable to keep order in the City.
The City council is made up of doctrinaire leftists who have no idea about the practical implications of their Leftist theories.
They think you can just vote for something and it magically happens.
They have fundamentally false assumptions about the nature of reality.
We are seeing the final stages of the suicide of Seattle.
Durkan is the adult in the room?
That doesnt bode well.
The only way this is going to work when you have half the offices is that the ones who are left are mean as s..t.
People tend not to know who the hell they are voting for when they vote Democrat on a big city council. And people do vote Democrat.
And that's how Soros sets up his Democrat candidates to win.
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