by Rich Smith • Jul 16, 2021 at 6:24 pm
Climate change fucking sucks. Sascha Schuermann / GETTY
New poll doesn t tell us much about the city races: After an initial ask, here s the candidate who wins in each race with a 4.3% margin of error:
Mayor: Not Sure (54%);
City Council Pos 8: Not Sure (69%, nice);
City Council Pos 9: Not Sure (58%). If you hold a gun to their head and ask them again, and then combine those answers, as the Northwest Progressive Institute did, then you get the following, which looks better than I would have imagined for Nikkita Oliver in the Position 9 race and Ann Davison and Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the City Attorney s race.
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Progressive activist Nikkita Oliver announces run for Seattle City Council
Nikkita Oliver. (Zom Taylor)
Seattle activist Nikkita Oliver announced Wednesday that they will be running for city council, as the latest big name to throw their hat into the political ring in 2021.
Oliver will look to fill the vacant at-large Position 9 seat, left open by departing Council President Lorena Gonzalez, who eschewed with reelection to run for mayor.
I am humbled to announce our campaign for SEA City Council Pos. 9. We know the end of oppressive systems is not a simple inevitability. Rather, it is intentional birthed of our labor & organizing, our continuous & principled struggle together. When we fight, we win. #Nikkita4Ninepic.twitter.com/uVqNrV2IrO
by Nathalie Graham • Mar 10, 2021 at 8:30 am
Activist, attorney, and poet Nikkita Oliver enters the race for Lorena Gonzalez s open council seat. NATE GOWDY
Amazon s Bellevue love affair: Seattle s neighborhood bookseller/tech overlord just bought some new office space in Bellevue. Amazon called dibs on the new 25-story Artise tower across the water. The building won t be done until 2024, but Amazon plans to fill it at least partially with workers siphoned off from its Seattle workforce. By 2025, Amazon said it will have a Bellevue workforce of at least 25,000 workers.
Nikkita Oliver is running for Seattle City Council: Oliver, the community organizer and attorney who finished third in the 2017 Seattle mayoral race, filed their candidacy for Seattle City Council Position 9, according to filings posted on the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission site. The seat is citywide. This morning, Oliver made the announcement official with a c