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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 think they already have moved corporate to TN ... local news reports massive layoffs....
Starbucks is building an East Coast headquarters in Tennessee, which might employ more than Seattle’s headquarters.
Mayor Olive Oyl is doing everything she can to drive the city into the ground.
Seattle deserves whatever she serves them. Keep voting for Lefty nitwits and you get lefty nitwittery.
LOL! Thanks for the ongoing laughs.
Gee whiz, this is just AWFUL!
(Affluent White Female Urban Liberal)
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Drives me crazy how the Right keeps saying “liberal”. Liberals are almost non existent on the left. They’ve been replaced by violent collectivists. The Right is actually far more liberal than the left these days. FR has many posters that still provide cover to this destructive death cult by calling them “liberals”.
How can you defeat an enemy that is constantly misidentified?
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Quite ironic, coming from the party of ‘conservatism’ (conserving the status quo) & having almost ZERO to do w/ limited, Constitutional govt (outside of giving it lip service, having killed that phrase since the ‘16 election)
It’s ALL uniparty/big govt w/ the faux dichotomy.
*Shrug*
Starbucks needs to stay and deal with it. They voted for this BS. They supported this BS. Stay in Seattle where you belong ya bunch of f’n commies
I was never a coffee snob until I visited the Copan Ruins on the Honduras Guatemala border. I visited a coffee plantation just north of there and witnessed the production of coffee beans, from growing, harvesting only the ripe red berries, drying to 15% moisture, de-hulling, hand sorting, and roasting.
The best coffee is 100% shade grown arabica roasted to 164° F. Normal dark roasted coffee is done to 171°F. It’s amazing how 7 degrees less takes it from bitter to extremely smooth. Black coffee at its finest,
Starbucks hipsters can keep their disgusting, overpriced swill.
EC
No sane private property owner wants his property stolen by socialists. Unfortunately, these days upper management is more concerned with pleasing the socialists than the shareholders.
The stupid runs deep in this one.
I believe in large part due to the dot.com boom that resulted in unreal gains for people if they were in the market.
She puts the “tard” into “Libtard”
-I believe Ms Katie echoes Vladimir Lenin:
“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
Because, like it or not, the NYT is very powerful. Joe Biden was told by the NYT to give up his bid to be re-elected, and he did.
And Tagline is still accurate.
Here’s the open secret about Starbucks. I worked with a former manager who was not a crazed leftard so he had to leave. They over roast the beans so they can use less and still get a bitter taste. In reality, dark roast coffee generally has less caffeine than lighter roasts since the longer you roast beans the more volatiles are driven off. Equal weight of the same variety and a light roast will have more caffeine than a dark roast.
Less caffeine, more ashtray! Yum!
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