How Compassion Seattle could shape the mayoral race
The authors of the homelessness initiative have pulled a page from the Tim Eyman playbook, using a hot-button issue that could drive turnout and force candidates to take a stand.
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Tents and structures seen at a homeless encampment near S Dearborn Street in Seattle s International District, Feb. 25, 2019 (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Here we go, Seattle: The 2021 election is shaping up as a moment of deep civic introspection.
With the filing deadline behind us, our choice of candidates is set. Voters will face 15 candidates for mayor and a smaller list for each of two Seattle City Council seats but altogether, there will be many choices in how we might shape the post-pandemic city. Will we be an out-of-control Crazy Town, as Fox News likes to call us? Or a city that works, that creatively solves our problems?