Challengers for Seattle council seat remain scarce with clock ticking on filing deadline
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda. (Seattle City Council)
Races to replace Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez have attracted numerous candidates, who’ve all already brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. But for the city’s other at-large council seat, occupied by incumbent Teresa Mosqueda, large-scale opposition has yet to materialize.
Seattle council races featuring incumbents don’t often attract the same level of competition as campaigns for open seats. Even by that standard, Mosqueda’s run for reelection has operated in stark contrast to what we saw during the last major council election.
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Recall campaign, Kshama Sawant dig in for lengthy battle over District 3
Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant at a weekend rally. (Sawant Solidarity, Facebook)
With a recall petition against Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant set to move forward into the signature-gathering phase, the two sides are preparing for what’s sure to be a months-long battle over the District 3 council seat.
Within 180 days, the recall campaign must collect just over 10,700 certified paper signatures from registered voters in District 3, a number that would constitute 25% of total votes cast in the last election for the district’s council seat.
The group, led by District 3 resident Ernie Lou, says it’s targeting August’s primary to get the recall on the ballot, given that the vote is required to take place during a regularly scheduled election. On Saturday, Sawant held a rally in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park, where she accused the group of purposefully avoiding the larger turnout afforded b
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During this time, he also hung out with execs in a meeting as they announced attempts to smear a Black warehouse organizer as not smart or articulate, oversaw the company as 20,000 of its workers contracted COVID-19, looked on as its managers engaged in an anti-union blitz in Alabama, and probably didn t bat an eye as its lawyers settled a $61.7 million lawsuit alleging wage theft of delivery drivers.
We ll see if Jassy follows Bezos s footsteps. But one thing s for sure: Guy Palumbo is probably pretty happy right now. The architect of Amazon s failed $1.5 million takeover of the Seattle City Council is a friend of Jassy s, according to Bloomberg.