Former council president Bruce Harrell announces run for Seattle mayor
KIRO 7 News Staff, Essex Porter
Former City Council member Bruce Harrell announced his bid today with some unusual approaches to some of the city’s most difficult problems.
Harrell was interim mayor for a few days in 2017 when Ed Murray resigned.
Now he says he wants to lead a Seattle revival.
“Look at what Seattle has become,” he said at his news conference.
Harrell spent 12 years on the City Council before declining to run for reelection in 2019.
Now he sees a city whose economy has been battered by the pandemic and struggling in the face of a reckoning for racial justice — a process too often punctuated by violence.