Citizens are trying to get a recall election to remove Jenny Durkan, the Seattle Mayor.
“Jenny Durkan’s abuses of power, lack of foresight and failure to protect the public — and the peace — in Seattle leaves us with no choice,” said Elliott Harvey, the lead petitioner and the chair of the Committee to Recall Jenny Durkan. “This is exactly the kind of case a recall is intended to address.”
Sounds good, right? Anyone who was upset over CHAZ/CHOP, people being shot, killed, the arson, all that fun stuff would want to get rid of the Mayor who allowed it and referred to it as potentially being a "summer of love." Let us read a bit further...
The campaign was launched by “a Capitol Hill-based organization of students, losers, lovers, bartenders, writers, artists, and fundraisers with BIPOC management, Wheelchair users, Deaf organizers, and LGBTQIA representation,” according to the campaign’s website.
In her ruling, Roberts threw out six of the seven charges the petitioners brought against Durkan, leaving one accusing the mayor of allowing police to use weapon such as tear gas against protesters amid the pandemic.
So, sane, rational, every day citizens angry at the Mayor for the damage her leadership caused? Not so much. It's the progressive-types who want to remove her! As it says, the judge allowed the recall order to go through on only one of the charges - the Mayor allowed the police to use tear gas against the "protesters".
It's the left coming for her (as it does, the left eats it's own). But this is a more glaring example, as Ksahma Sawant is a politician there as well, and the group of people pushing for the Mayor to be removed are likely quite big fans of hers - after all, she wants full on socialism, destroy capitalism, blah blah blah. This is an internal leftist power struggle that could result in the current Mayor of Seattle being ousted (as she should be) but only to be replaced with something worse. Plenty of right-wing people will want to vote her out as well and sign the petition.
It's not a win if she gets replaced by Kshama Sawant, who's an out and out socialist nutjob of a high level. It'd be like replacing a corrupt and shitty establishment Democrat mayor with an out and out socialist mayor.
Ideally, you could back the petition to get the recall election then pray the right-wing outvotes the left-wing in Seattle but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Is she running? She's the one who handed City Hall to Antifa while she and the mayor were working together. They're basically the same in that regard, but Sawant would have pulled all the police back and given the terrorists a few more blocks.
Letting the communist get power is a win. Think about it...