Posted on 12/07/2021 4:34:58 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
The Times’ editorial board took issue with Sawant’s denial of the charge related to the protest at Durkan’s house.
“This denial rings hollow,” the board said. “During Sawant’s onstage speech in front of Durkan’s house, she reportedly spoke critically of the ‘Richie Rich’ neighborhood. Shortly afterward, Sawant’s council Twitter account retweeted notes of gratitude ‘for speaking @MayorJenny’s rich house,’ as one put it. Curiously, those notes appear to have vanished from Sawant’s timeline.”
The alternative biweekly newspaper The Stranger has a much more sympathetic view of Sawant and opposes the recall election.
In a colorfully-written Nov. 17 piece, “Vote NO on the Kshama Sawant Recall" – bylined by Stranger Election Control Board – the progressive publication targeted the legitimacy of the recall election.
“Even if you harbor strong disagreements with Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, it is plainly undemocratic to overturn the will of the 2019 electorate with a recall vote sandwiched between two major travel holidays,” The Stranger wrote.
The process is ripe for abuse, according to the newspaper.
“Though King County hasn’t scheduled an election in December since it started keeping records in 2004, so-called ‘special elections’ such as this one draw 25% less turnout on average,” the article states. “If successful, the right-wingers and corporate landlords funding this campaign will use this same tactic to go after every progressive leader who threatens their financial interests and in the 30 other states across the country that allow for recalls in local elections.”
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If there is reduced turnout, it will help Sawant, because her supporters are smelly little fanatics whose religion is their politics.
The Stranger is the “homo” newspaper given away free in sandwich shops - the ST is plenty left wing but the article puts them on some kind of equal footing which they are most certainly not.
Notes for later.
So if not now, when?
and what could be MORE democratic, when in the face of insubordination and criminal act to the people she swore to serve, than a recall??
I’m surprised Antifa hasn’t burned the Times building down. They are slipping, burning retail stores is a dodge.
When I live in Seattle I used to glance at it copy of the stranger from time to time. It’s idiotic. I would do it for some mild entertainment. I seem to remember a comic strip called modern times or something like that that was unbelievably lame.
“Even if you harbor strong disagreements with Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, it is plainly undemocratic to overturn the will of the 2019 electorate with a recall vote sandwiched between two major travel holidays,” The Stranger wrote.
What a-holes.
Partisan Media Shill and Stooge alert.
If successful, the right-wingers and corporate landlords funding this campaign will use this same tactic to go after every progressive leader who threatens their financial interests and in the 30 other states across the country that allow for recalls in local elections.”
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They say it like it’s a bad thing.
King County Elections: Kshama Sawant recall:
Recall yes: 53.10%
Recall no: 46.90%
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