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Posted on 05/20/2026 11:03:43 PM PDT by Libloather
Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific City.
Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses, including Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee.
The democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses.
“I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either,” she whined in November, according to KUOW.
But several months later, Wilson appeared to walk back her statement.
“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” she told the New York Times.
Wilson also told the outlet she’s aware that everything she says could be used as possible anti-business missives, and she needs to have a “multidimensional relationship” with corporations like the coffee giant.
Starbucks recently revealed it was going to build a 2,000-person corporate office in Nashville, which fueled concern that the business could leave its hometown high and dry.
Seattle City Council Member Rob Saka told the Times he is “gravely concerned” about the loss of business.
“This is real,” he said.
Wilson insisted this week that her office and Starbucks have a good relationship, and the snub in favor of Nashville was not a surprise, the outlet reported. Starbucks was also a sponsor for a new tiny house homeless shelter that was announced earlier this month, according to KOMO.
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I can’t keep track of when Starbuck’s is trendy and when it’s evil. Personally I prefer tap water + supermarket coffee grounds for pennies per cup.
Why would a Seattle person be speaking about a Seattle company on an issue concerning Seattle be using the failing New York Times as an intermediary?
Around the time of the first Clinton term the Left pushed for criminals and others to say “I’m sorry” and if they did it wall all okay. And “He didn’t even say he was sorry” meant a politician was in trouble. Not Bill, of course, ever. When he left office after 2 terms and a major Monica Lewinsky scandal and embarrassing admissions in hearings, ——
“the day Bill Clinton left office on January 20, 2001, his job approval rating of roughly 66% in the final Gallup Presidential Approval Ratings poll was an historically high exit rating and marked the highest end-of-term approval for any departing U.S. president since the end of World War II.”
—Gallup.com
But don’t you miss the overpriced burned taste? I don’t.
I somehow survive. :o
I miss the old days when a ‘politician’ had to work the way up to a responsible position instead of walking out of a parent’s spare room directly into the Mayor’s Office.
“Wilson insisted this week that her office and Starbucks have a good relationship...”
HOW does the mayor have a good relationship with a business after participating in a protest calling for the boycott of their product?
I don’t think commies have figured out things the way most people do.
The skill of a liberal politician is to accomplish the goals of instituting communism while selling it as something that’s good for you while making capitalism the evil alternative.
The new left politicians like Katie Wilson come into office with a shotgun approach and just blast way with total disregard of the collateral damage, if they are smart, they quickly learn to adapt a more subtle approach which is what she’s learning right now.
Zohran Mamdani is learning the same lessons, he made the Ken Griffin commercial, which is going to cost NYC billions, he quickly learned he needs the billionaires to remain in NYC so he can slowly take their money versus taking it all at once.
Actually, the magic words were "I'm contrite".
The title is misleading...
Seattle is a communist-run progressive city...
Not a “liberal” city...
Liberalism became extinct many, many decades ago...
I went to the first Starbuck’s coffee shop in Seattle. Cute little place in Pike Place Market where the ferries dock.
Didn’t like the coffee. May have tried it here or there in my travels, still don’t like it.
Which as nothing to do with Mayor Moron having zero clue how a city and/or an economy works.
You never do or say anything creative, Katie, and that's the problem with idiots like you.
Being naturally fugal (aka: cheap) and learned to drink coffee in the Army on freezing days I refuse to waste money on Starbucks when there is perfectly good gas station coffee available at 20% or less of the price. I think the last time I used Starbucks was in 2005 when I needed wifi because the Hotel’s was nonop.
Starbucks leaving Seattle would just be more of the same. Treat companies/capital badly and they will leave.
Fun Fact: "Frugal" is a member of that small sub-set of English words (like "to cleave" and "to sanction") which are their own antonyms.
Regards,
LOL, I knew how to spell it correctly but:
1. Semi-woke up early and had not had my morning coffee yet
2. No red mark saying I spelled it wrong.
3. Math Major, lousy speller.
However, obviously you got the intended point.
“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good”
IOW, she stands by her comments, but acknowledges that her timing might have been a bit off. It would be foolish for them to remain there.
I couldn't have known that you were only semi-conscious and had not yet had your morning coffee! For all I knew, you could have simply been a lousy speller or slack-jawed country bumpkin who needed a friendly pointer from an intellectual giant such as myself! (Heh-heh!)
2. No red mark saying I spelled it wrong.
Are you saying that you don't want a red mark? Or are you lamenting that I didn't give you a red mark?
3. Math Major, lousy speller.
But you said that you "knew how to spell it correctly," so how is that an excuse? (BTW: I got a "D" when I took "Non-linear Algebra" the first time! Aced it the second time - but still...)
All in good fun! Have a great day!
Regards,
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