Posted on 12/03/2020 4:55:09 AM PST by Libloather
Big business, the right wing, and now the courts have rung the bell on what is now the fourth round of the fight to expel socialists from Seattle City Hall.
The corporate elite are determined to do so by hook or by crook. They failed in the first three rounds to buy this city council seat, the last time with unprecedented corporate cash from Amazon. The latest effort, a right-wing recall campaign, is perhaps the most serious threat so far, seeking now to use the courts and four trumped-up charges to overturn my reelection last year.
It’s not for nothing. Socialists and social movements have dramatically altered the course of Seattle politics since my first election in 2013, and we have repeatedly set powerful examples that have spread nationally.
We spearheaded fights for Seattle to become the first major city to pass a $15 minimum wage, landmark renters’ rights victories like the winter evictions ban and the move-in-fees cap, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our first-in-the-nation ban on chemical weapons, the Amazon tax earlier this year for affordable housing and a Green New Deal - a $2 billion transfer of wealth from wealthy corporations to ordinary people over the next decade - and more.
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Multiple lawsuits have been launched against my office, including by two police officers claiming “defamation” after I called the police killing of unarmed black Seattle resident Che Taylor “murder.” There have also been more than a dozen “ethics” complaints brought against my office. All these lawsuits and complaints have been so far dismissed or defeated, but that won’t stop more from coming - particularly since the courts are friendly territory for capitalists and the Right to fight in.
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She needs to be punched in the face
A glorious self immolations of a Rat fight in a puddle of sewage would be a fitting way to oust these despicable cretins such as her.
Lording over a city that is swirling down the toilet bowl.
And to her and her ilk, this is progress.
Also, she is dead wrong about the courts. They have routinely dismissed cases against violent rioters in her part of the country.
“...She needs to be punched in the face...”
She deserves waaaaayyyyy more than that.
“...what is now the fourth round of the fight to expel socialists from Seattle...”
Gee, he says it like it’s a BAD thing!
Seattle is a unlivable shit hole run by communist mobs. A great socialist victory.
About friggin’ time. She’s effectively the Warlord of Seattle. Jennie Durkin is an idiot.
Oh, by the way, every single person in a position of power in that city is female. They ganged up on the poor Police Chief, who was female and black (remember when that was way up on the social justice pecking order?) and forced her to quit.
That city is almost as bad off as NYC. The only thing propping it up are the software companies. Amazon is trying to move itself to Bellevue. They can’t build fast enough in Kirkland, Bellevue, and Redmond. (and Issaquah).
Sawant is a terrorist, nothing more.
Power mad pukes like her are always surrounded by pistol packing goons. You’d need an RPG.
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