Seattle council candidate drops out after report of 2015 assault surfaces
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Seattle City Council candidate Mike McQuaid has withdrawn from the running for the city’s at-large position, following the surfacing of a report from The Seattle Times detailing assault and harassment charges he faced in 2015.
According to the report, McQuaid “was upset with some landscaping work, part of a construction project outside his Westlake condo.” Things proceeded to get heated between him and the man working on the project on-site. McQuaid threatened to head-butt the man, and then while wielding a gas-powered chop saw, threatened to cut the man’s head off.
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Seattle council candidate withdraws after criminal assault exposed By
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Michael McQuaid, a candidate for Seattle City Council, has withdrawn from the race after an article in the Seattle Times exposed a criminal assault from 2015.
McQuaid had pleaded guilty for hitting a landscaper at his condominium with a rock. McQuaid, according to a police report, was dissatisfied with the work and got into a heated argument with a worker.
After threatening to head butt the worker, he picked up a gas-powered chop saw and told him, according to a police report, âIâm going to cut your head off.â Unable to get the motor going, he threw a rock instead and hit the worker in the lower back.
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