Posted on 11/16/2013 11:08:13 AM PST by Michael.SF.
Edited on 11/16/2013 11:20:09 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Seattle voters have elected a socialist to city council for the first time in modern history.
Kshama Sawant's lead continued to grow on Friday, prompting 16-year incumbent Richard Conlin to concede.
Even in this liberal city, Sawant's win has surprised many here. Conlin was backed by the city's political establishment. On election night, she trailed by four percentage points. She wasn't a veteran politician, having only run in one previous campaign.
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Democrats are mostly Socialists...hey at least this one says she’s proud of it...I mean what could go wrong?
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Nah, it just makes most people dead.
Actually, I wish more of the dems would be honest and come out as true socialists; Far fewer of them would get elected.
A professor of economics that thinks the minimum wage should be $15 hr. I bet her classes are full of enlightenment. /s
You are right, most Dims are Socialists but just afraid to call themselves such.
I am outside of Seattle city limit and thus could not vote in this race. Peeps I know, both in and outside of Seattle, are appalled.
I also learned that the folks she hired to petition for the $15 an hour minimum wage in SeaTac, she paid $10.00 and hour. As we know, with with Socialists it is always OPM that they are interested
Turning Seattle into Jonestown, probably
There seems to be a “competition” of sorts on the West Coast. Which city - SF, Portland or Seattle - can be more left and weird.
And I will say, it’s a dead heat.
Dead heat of deadbeats.
She's an actual self-professed Marxist.
Seattle has a long history of socialist and communist politics.
From the CPUSA's own website:
One anecdote from the 30s is about the Party caucus in the Washington State legislature. At one point, the caucus had six or seven members, all elected as Democrats, through the agency of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, including Tom Rabbit and Bill Pennock. When they wanted to meet, they would have the pages go around announcing a meeting of the “Committee on Roads and Bridges.” There was no such committee.
Maybe not in Seattle though.
This is Seattle. It has been a hot-bed of leftist extremism for decades. Hell, in Seattle there was a statue erected to Lenin!
And she’s a nasty lady, too. Hates cops and accuses capitalists of being murderers.
Good, Now maybe Boeing will take more serious looks at other states.
I was reading some of the comments by machinists before the vote in some of the local papers. These guys are really communistically inspired socialists. We shall see how socialist they are after their jobs disappear and they are on well fare.
Oh! Excuse me! That is a socialistic program. Then they will undoubtedly be happy anyway.
Big deal. :) Ithaca, NY (City of Evil) had a Socialist mayor for years, and later he was on the school board. Seattle is behind the times...
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