In December, Jenny Durkan announced that she would not seek a second term as mayor of Seattle. Weeks of speculation about potential replacements followed. But 2021 has brought more clarity. While none of our Very Serious candidates have yet entered the race, a bunch of others have. Here s who s running for mayor of Seattle this year (in alphabetical order).
Henry Clay Dennison
The Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in 2020 has put his name in for Seattle s top post. Dennison is a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union; he s also worked as a coal miner in Alabama and West Virginia.
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Colleen Echohawk, a Native American woman and key advocate in Seattleâs homelessness crisis, is running for mayor of the Pacific north-west city and laying the groundwork for it to potentially elect its first indigenous mayor.
Echohawk, an enrolled member of the Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation and a member of the Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake, is a progressive Democrat, but one, she said, âwith strong roots in pragmatismâ.
Her success in the race would be truly distinctive. It would mean the city that over 150 years ago approved an ordinance expelling the Native community, would be run by an Indigenous woman.
Colleen Echohawk joins race for Seattle mayor
The executive director of the Chief Seattle Club is a well known name in City Hall and the world of homelessness and philanthropy.
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In this Dec. 17, 2018, photo, Colleen Echohawk, right, executive director of Chief Seattle Club, is applauded by Mayor Jenny Durkan as Echohawk speaks during a news conference announcing that Seattle will invest more than $75 million on affordable-housing units in the following year. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
Colleen Echohawk, the executive director of the Chief Seattle Club, announced her candidacy for mayor Monday, making her perhaps the highest profile name to enter the race to replace Mayor Jenny Durkan.