Posted on 12/09/2020 1:07:03 PM PST by Libloather
SEATTLE - Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will not seek re-election, prompting what will likely be significant political posturing for the position and a 2021 city campaign season like no other.
“I've decided that I will not seek a second term,” Durkan told KING 5. “2020 has just been a brutal year, but we have some really tough months ahead of us. We still have to fight COVID, we've got to deliver a vaccine, and we're gonna have a really hard job of rebuilding our economy, our downtown and continuing all the work on equity. I could have spent the whole year campaigning to keep the job, or I can focus all my energies on doing the job. And I think there's only one right choice for Seattle and that's for me to do the job."
She told supporters and staff of her decision late Monday morning.
Durkan was seen as a stabilizing force when she was elected in 2017, fresh off the Seattle City Hall scandal that led to the abrupt resignation of Ed Murray, and sudden appointments of then-Council President Bruce Harrell, and later Tim Burgess.
Durkan was the first woman to be elected Seattle mayor since Bertha Knight Landes in 1926, bringing credibility and a resume that included being the first openly gay U.S. Attorney in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at king5.com ...
So where will she slither off to now?
So what? The fools will just elect another whacko.
Awwwww...Jenny, Come on, gal.You need to run.
Chairman Zhou needs ya there...and so do the People.
The People just love you sooooo much for burning their city down, but they’re still willing to give you another chance to burn even more of it...Run, Jenny....RUN!!!!
Durka, Durka, Gurka
Mohammed Jihad !
Send for the World Police.
She wants to spend more time getting in touch with her autonomous zones
Tyrant work is really hard.
Or will Dominion elect another whacko for them?
Oh Good
Now we can deport her
IF the Trump teams can trigger nationwide election reform, it will be the greatest gift any President could give this country. I want to see what elections look like with paper ballots, cast in person, hand counted with observers in every case looks like.
In my mind she is resigning to put distance between herself and the mess her kind created.
She probably has a job lined up in the Biden administration. </sarc>......well, maybe not sarcasm!
Probably good news, can there be anyone worse than her?
When the Seattle politicians say “rebuild downtown” they are really saying get some businesses back and open down there for two revenue purposes.
A Leftist moron to be replaced by another Leftist moron, I know them folks living in Seattle are utterly relishing this sh*t......reap what you sow idiots...reap what you sow.
The Peter Principle - she’ll take a high position in Biden’s administration.
“The fools” meaning the vote tabulation cheaters . . . ?
The KING article gives a very brief mention of the destruction you talk about; eight paragraphs in. Otherwise, they find Durkan faultless.
maybe the cray lcray communist Swanit woman will run and be elected, then she can finish the job.
There can always be somebody worse. And there usually is. Watch carefully the folks who line up to replace her. And remember: "It's not the people who vote that matter. It's the people who count the votes that matter".
No, the libs. Dominion not needed. They are incapable of learning. Just like they do when they move away from their disasters. They create another one. Nothing will stop 90% of voting for another whackjob.
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