• Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.orgOP
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    Friendly reminder that Seattle’s current city attorney is a trump backing Republican who was elected all because Seattle at the time was too scared of a candidate who once talked about abolishing the police.

    The author here is running for the position and if you’re in Seattle I highly encourage supporting him. We have a chance to drastically shift the center right city government that has plagued our city these last few years

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      2 months ago

      This is another good example of leftist policies causing an election loss. Even in a place as blue as Seattle.

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        This is a good example of people not understanding what they’re being lied to about, being fed endless propaganda/copaganda and fear based on whateverthefuck, not understanding how governments work or how their rights are being stripped away.

        Yet here you have a militarized white supremacist union - wholly unaccountable to civilians or the law - willing and openly boasting about killing people.

        The American dream is just around the corner.

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        Defunding the police is actually popular as long as you don’t call it ‘defunding the police’.

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          Seattle’s current city attorney is a trump backing Republican who was elected all because Seattle at the time was too scared of a candidate who once talked about abolishing the police

          Election results say otherwise

      • Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.orgOP
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        Except that’s not really true. She didn’t run on that at all. It was a tweet from long before the election that the right wing used to tarnish her

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    A time element for the election would be nice here to understand the context. I’ve not lived in Seattle for 25 years, so I don’t remember the cycles, and I’m too mentally exhausted to deal with a search engine.

    • Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.orgOP
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      Elections are this November. A ton of seats up. Shitty center right mayor. Shitty right wing city attorney. Shitty right wing city council president, among others.

      The current city attorney was voted in 4 years ago in 2021