Posted on 12/06/2021 7:07:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SEATTLE (AP) — At first, Henry Bridger II supported Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s combative socialist city councilmember. A liberal voter in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in an extremely liberal city, he liked her fresh outlook and support for a $15 minimum wage.
Seven years later, Bridger is leading an effort to recall Sawant. With ballots due Tuesday night in Seattle’s Third District, the results could further shift power in the Northwest’s largest city and deal another setback to leftist activists who saw business-friendly candidates win a council seat and the mayor’s office in last month’s general election.
At stake is how the city approaches homelessness, police reform, taxation and other pressing issues. Sawant has been pushing for rent control, cutting police funding and expanding taxes on high earners such as Amazon to pay for affordable housing, schools and community services.
“She literally blasts people who don’t agree with her,” Bridger said. “If you’re not in lockstep with her ideology, you become the enemy. You’re called a right-wing Republican. You’re called a racist. You’re bullied and pushed around.”
Sawant, 48, an Indian immigrant and an economics professor, is the longest-tenured council member. She has had an outsized influence on the tone and direction of Seattle politics since launching her political career under the banner of the Socialist Alternative party in 2012, when she ran unsuccessfully for state representative.
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Is she really that dumb, or is this an exert from the Sacramento Bee? If she's serious, will the last company to leave Seattle please turn off the lights.
She’ll survive the recall by garnering 49,901 votes to her opponent’s 17,365 of the total 48,534 votes cast. A miracle.
First time she defeated Egan Orion 22,263 to 20,488. 2019.
Keep voting communist, morons of Seattle. This is what you get. Clowns.
2. Simple. She is a true psychopathic marxist.
If she wins the voters will get what they asked for - good and hard
Her district voted for her 3 times. There was not enough recall petition signatures for a city wide vote. She’s safe even though she’s as crooked as a country road.
There shold be a law that if you are an economics major, you are not allowed to enter public service.
Seems that major has been corrupted with deranged lunatics that don’t know anything about economics.
Yeah, yeah, for the humor deficient who say my post violates my Tagline, I was only kidding.
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