Posted on 10/06/2020 5:30:57 PM PDT by Libloather
On September 17, a King County Superior Court Judge ruled in favor of four articles of recall brought against Seattle’s socialist city councilmember Kshama Sawant. The recall campaign represents an attempt by the right wing and big business to overturn Kshama’s re-election last year and drive socialist politics out of Seattle City Hall.
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While the recall petition was officially filed by an individual resident of Kshama’s district, the language in it is notably all but identical to a public statement from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan calling for the City Council to expel Kshama.
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This recall effort is above all an attempt to overturn the historic gains working people have won in Seattle through movements built by Kshama and Socialist Alternative: the Amazon Tax, the $15/hr minimum wage, landmark renters rights laws, and other victories.
In fact, three of the four articles of recall approved by the judge directly take issue with the leading role Kshama and her office played in social movements, including Seattle’s recent Black Lives Matter protests and Tax Amazon. Two of them accuse her of endangering people and property by participating in BLM protests at City Hall and in the neighborhood of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s home. A third accuses her of illegally using public resources to support the Tax Amazon ballot initiative, despite no ballot initiative having been filed by the movement until months after the expenditures in question were made.
The fourth article takes issue with Kshama being a socialist, accusing her of delegating the authority of her office to an “outside organization”, Socialist Alternative. Not only is this an old accusation already dismissed by the Seattle Ethics and Elections commission, it boils down to attacking Kshama simply for being principled and democratically accountable to her own grassroots organization, Socialist Alternative...
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Jenny Durkan is RIGHT WING?!?!?!
What level of H311 is this?
Comes from a socialist publication. Doesn’t matter to them if they can’t keep their own lies straight.
Someone needs to ask the socialist Kshama where she got her $ millions”
She got it from her former rich Microsoft husband.
Capitalism is bad only after you got your millions or if you have no chance of getting any millions.
If you got a chance you want to stay in the game.
In related news, the democrat-social-Communist party denied that water is wet, claiming that California is suffering Trumps droughts, Trumps fires, and Trumps Fault.
Well, the Eighth circle of Hell is Fraud...
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