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Political consultant. Radio/podcast @HacksWonks . Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious. You know something I don’t.
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I appreciate all of you who have shared that you enjoy the Hacks & Wonks podcast, where we discuss state and local politics and policy in WA.
We air twice per week:
✅ a midweek show focused on a subject (issue or person)
✅ a week-in-review every Friday
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Judge sentenced to 28 years for selling Black teens to prisons
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This is W I L D labor violation case:
A California restaurant had someone impersonate a priest and hear workers’ confessions.
Then the restaurant used that information to retaliate against workers
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That “friend” needs to be dropped immediately. They are not a girl’s girl, and that’s a shame.
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@carolinerenard_
That was the part for me. She spent the majority of her life devoted to ballet and it was a viable career for her, not just a little hobby. It was clearly still important to her because she planned a home studio and seeing it turned into a room for the kids was a gut punch.
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A 51-year-old man shot and killed a 17-year-old who was walking into Big 5 in Renton to return an airsoft gun.
The man said he thought the teen and his two friends were going to commit an armed robbery, so he confronted them and shot the teen.
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DNA evidence clears Williams. The victim's family doesn't want the death penalty. The DA agreed to take the death penalty off the table. A former Republican governor granted a stay.
But Missouri's current GOP governor, AG and Court are determined to execute him.
BREAKING: Missouri governor, state Supreme Court refuse to halt the execution of man convicted of 1998 killing
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I want their commentary on everything, please and thank you! 👑
Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.
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We were sold an open waterfront with an underground tunnel highway as a viaduct replacement.
We were bamboozled.
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“So far I’d say there’s a 100% correlation between people who are afraid taking the subway and people who don’t take it often.”
Haha the London Sunday Times had someone ride the NYC subway for 24 hours to assess how dangerous it is.
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A driver of a Chevy Silverado backed over a 3 year old while parking in Bellevue yesterday, killing the child.
People often say big trucks make them feel safer, but they are more deadly for kids, pedestrians and other drivers.
Here's some additional information from Bellevue PD, including the fact that the vehicle did in fact have a driver:
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Loren Culp thought he could dodge a q by asking for a specific instance of a well known problem.
Melissa Santos was prepared with receipts, and Culp is melting down because he won’t answer whether a cop who punched a handcuffed woman should have been rehired.
#waelex
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“The CEOs of five of the largest railroad conglomerates have been paid more than $200 million in the last three years, and company shareholders have been boosted by nearly $200 billion in stock buybacks and dividends over the last dozen years.”
Railroad executives recently paid themselves $200 million.
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@RachelRGonzalez
@ReignOfApril
Thank you for standing by your roommate. I always say “ally” is a verb and you are showing it in action. I hope this harassment stops and you are both safe.
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The call: A thin Black woman on foot accused of stealing food from Taqueria El Sabor
Cops responded to the wrong location (Taqueria El Riconsito) and stopped me (a fat Black woman in a car with a receipt).
Wrong location! Wrong description!
How did I live my life wrong here?
I believe it’s possible to live your life in such a way that the police are not a threat to you.
It’s called having agency and making reasonable life choices.
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These are really... something.
What Each State Googled More Frequently Than Any Other State Since the Election
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I love lots of things about lots of cities, but Seattle is the best summer city.
Cities with the best summer:
1. NYC
2. NYC
3. NYC
4. NYC
5. NYC
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"The 33-year-old suspect was identified as an off-duty Auburn police officer, according to the Auburn Police Department."
A man was arrested Saturday night after he struck and killed a pedestrian in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood
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Over 1.9 million votes were recounted by hand and the vote tally in this race only changed by 2 votes. That should make everyone feel extremely confident about the integrity our elections!
Dave Upthegrove (D) will face Jamie Herrera Beutler (R) in the general election!
#waelex
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#DefundSPD
won.
The override of Durkan’s veto is 100% a result of the community marching, calling, writing, testifying and *not relenting when it got hard.*
People have the power to reshape their own communities, and what happens locally can move the nation.
I’m thankful that Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda and Kshama Sawant were always clear yes votes to override Durkan’s veto. It’s important to know who never wavered, and they didn’t.
I’m thankful to all of the activists and community who held the rest of council accountable.
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He won’t be the host but he’s still the Executive Producer, involved in the search for a new host, which is still entirely inappropriate.
Breaking News: Mike Richards, who was named the new host of “Jeopardy!” last week, is abruptly leaving the role at the beloved game show after a report this week resurfaced offensive and sexist comments he made on a podcast several years ago.
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I was cleaning out my car. I was reported as a suspicious person rummaging through a car. In a neighborhood I’d lived in and walked through daily for almost a year.
#LivingWhileBlack
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Also describes Seattle
In SF, no one calls themselves a Republican. So instead we get this weird group of people for a war on drugs, for deregulation, for ever-expanding police budgets, and for endless corporate tax breaks, who have no doubt in their mind they are on the left.
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Meeting basic needs reduces crime.
Counties in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA saw a 25% decrease in drug arrests, a 19% drop in “violent offense” arrests, and a 24% decrease in “low-level” offense arrests (Simes & Jahn 2022). Expanding public benefits leads to lower crime rates! RT
@PrisonPolicy
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What Repeat COVID Infections Do to Your Body, According to Science
SARS-CoV-2 behaves differently than a common cold or flu virus—and can do major long-term damage.
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‘Over the moon’: Bellingham REI becomes first Washington state store to unionize
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WA State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead blamed the victims and said that he hoped the protestors changed their behavior.
Maybe if he focused on stopping people trying to murder protestors with cars, this wouldn’t be Seattle’s 4th incident like this in the past month.
Update: a driver sped the wrong way into an on-ramp and hit protesters. Troopers investigating motive and possible felony charges.
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Girls just want to house everyone.
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@telvinlewis1
@LoLoVonZ
@netflix
How does Netflix send me notifications for ridiculous new shows but leave this out?! I will be watching this ASAP!
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@iamopheliabyers
I’m very uncomfortable with criticizing the child in that situation, but feel there’s a valid conversation about the decisions that adults in her life made that were disrespectful to the other performers and audience who paid for a professional show.
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@isthat_kt
@iiamjourneee
@itslisabeyonce
@breamarie1of1
@RealChrisLandry
Now THIS is the kind of breakdown folks need about prospective neighborhoods!
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Are there conversations happening with
@SoundTransit
about increasing frequency on event days?
Looking forward to never being able to get on a train again when there’s an event until the 2 line connects to Seattle.
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YES THAT IS MY MOM WITH OVER 75% OF THE VOTE 💪🏾❤️
Congratulations Councilmember Fincher!
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@boobeebah123
@TeethLedger
Maybe that’s a lesson here: not knowing those details about a person is a reason to pause and keep scrolling instead of dunking on them in a way that can be cruel.
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This is why the GOP is playing along.
It won’t change things for Trump, but this is the foundation for maintaining minority rule in the long term.
Thread:
they're setting the stage for years of new restrictive laws in states they run, justified under the false pretense of fraud, & bolstered by an even friendlier SCOTUS.
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📜 The Washington State Democratic Party platform, page 55: “We oppose private prison companies”
❌ Advocating for SCORE should disqualify Woo from endorsement by every Democratic org and ally in the city.
Endorsements for the August primary are ramping up now.
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Proposal to expand free lunch to all public school students in Washington gains bipartisan support
#WaLeg
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Any prayers or good vibes you can spare for my Dad, who stopped breathing and is in the ER right now, are appreciated.
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Welp.
I ordered takeout from Taqueria El Riconsito. Waited in my car for about 15 mins for it to be ready, then went in grabbed it and went back to my car. As I got ready to leave, 2 Kent PD officers pull up and look at me, walk over to my window and ask if I was inside…
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SPD can fire an employee for starting dating rumors, but not a cop for mocking the death of a pedestrian killed by another officer.
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This is also relevant to the concerns about political canvasser safety, especially for Black and Brown canvassers and candidates.
Hard to overstate how much worse things are going to get in a country where the population is armed to the teeth then conditioned to live in a constant paranoid state of fear.
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Dear Seattle mayoral candidates:
I know that one of you is trying to stiff a BIPOC firm for services provided. I’m aware that another has offered BIPOC consultants much lower pay than junior staff.
You should resolve that ASAP.
Sincerely,
A founding PCCC member
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$62K used to be a solid middle class salary.
$62K (w/perf credit) doesn’t qualify for an apt in Seattle today. Buying? Impossible.
Imagine looking ANYTHING that systematically excludes half the people it needs to serve and thinking the people, not the system, is the problem. 🙄
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It’s time to end the “moderate” charade and call Sara Nelson and her allies what they are: conservatives.
Her rhetoric and policies are the same as Republicans.
GUEST RANT: For Seattle’s new council president, “good governance” means Republican rhetoric and cuts to social services.
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My Dad was a wonderful man, father, musician, coach and mentor, and he passed away today.
Thank you all so much for your messages of support.
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Dems across the country need to study this race.
Her competitiveness in rural areas won this race, and she did it by running boldly on her values, not running scared.
#WA03
#waelex
Yesssss!!! What a massive, game-changing win by
@MGPforCongress
! She ran one of the best campaigns of the entire cycle and showed Democrats how to win in rural America without compromising on values. Time to celebrate!
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Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese is proof of goodness and hope in this world.
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Moderates in Seattle are EXTREMELY invested in being called “progressive.”
can we come up with a definition for "progressive" in seattle bc it clearly no longer serves a function when everyone from Sawant to Lewis is considered one? Does it just mean "not and outright fascist" or something??
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I’m ready to move forward with drone shows and be done with fireworks on NYE.
the space needle welcoming 2024 by opening a portal straight to superhell
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Some homeowners are ecstatic that housing costs doubled in the past 10 yrs. I get that.
Also notice that scheduling dr appts takes longer and your pharmacy closed? Your kids class is bigger and there’s no more bus? Homelessness still getting worse?
Costs of costly housing.
I see this person deleted their tweet and went private after getting ratiod hard for saying that people have a “skill issue” if $62K isn’t livable.
I see this a lot from people who last rented on that salary 10-15 years ago, and don’t realize housing costs DOUBLED since then.
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This is egregious.
The things Cathy Moore and this council majority have said are divisive, uncivil, and dangerous when coming from the public are nothing compared to the vitriol they unleash on their colleague Tammy Morales.
Moore chastises Morales for a full 7 minutes because she dared to say the Unified Care Team conducts sweeps, which it literally does. Moore even appears to admit that UCT pushes people block to block because there's not enough shelter and housing.
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Changing your legal name is now safer, easier, and (potentially) free if you’re trans in Washington state, thanks to new law 👍🏾
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If landlords want to be called “housing providers” we should call renters “income providers” or “home equity providers.”
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It now takes at least 6 figures for a family to get by in Seattle
The cost of basic necessities for a family of four just went up by $16,000, or 18%, in a single year.
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Advocates in blue states have so much to learn from their counterparts in red states.
This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever been a part of. No one believed in Arkansas but we got 101,525 signatures to get abortion on the ballot
#ARPx
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THAT’S MY MOM. I’m a proud daughter. ❤️
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Let's be clear:
When people say that someone is too repulsive to assault, they also imply that others can be too inviting to resist.
Trump, speaking in North Carolina, just said twice more that his accusers are too ugly for him to rape.
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On Tuesday, SPD officers saw a car intentionally drive over tents that were on a sidewalk along Third & James.
Police tried to pull the suspect over, but they fled.
Officers started to pursue the suspect, BUT TERMINATED THE PURSUIT WHEN THEY LEARNED NO ONE WAS IN THE TENTS.
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This confirms Jenny Durkan and Carmen Best’s tweets were intentionally deleted. Durkan tried to blame the IT department, but her phone settings were changed to auto-delete before IT had it.
There needs to be an investigation. The texts still need to be recovered.
BREAKING Fmr. Mayor Durkan’s text messages from 2020 racial justice protests vanished because a phone setting was manually changed to auto delete & ex-SPD Chief Best "periodically deleted" her texts, a long-overdue forensic analysis indicates
@DBeekman
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We live in a beautiful place
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Do you stand by this,
@SeattleTimes
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Are you keeping a Hitler apologist and genocide minimizer on your editorial board?
"why do you bring up genocide when I am simply trying to defend Hitler???"
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This is a BFD:
"The records...appear to show that SPD and the City planned to abandon and evacuate the precinct itself at the direction of Mayor Durkan, and in coordination with SPD command staff, directly contradicting public facing comments by Chief Best."
NEW: "Please Stop on the Teams Chat": New Records Expose Mayor Durkan's Role and Others in Abandonment of East Precinct
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Wonder why the Seattle Times endorsements are the way they are?
Here’s a member of their editorial board:
Record-setting fastest “you gotta hand it to Hitler” tweet from a newly hired member of a metro newspaper’s editorial board
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This is a textbook case for recusal.
Council President Sara Nelson interrupts speaker
@colinokeefe
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A WA statewide Dem candidate is currently demonstrating two things:
1️⃣ The Dem base doesn't care for "tough on crime" signaling and it's as likely to backfire as help
2️⃣ No amount of "tough on crime" signaling from a Dem will win or pacify the GOP base
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Dave Reichert is not a moderate Republican. If you hear pundits continue to say that, you should disregard everything else they say.
Reichert reflects the extreme Republican base who wants to roll back LGBTQ+ rights.
This has no place in WA government.
Here’s the full video of Dave Reichert saying that “marriage is between a man and a woman” just two months ago.
Congressman Reichert revealed who he really is. Discrimination like this has no place in the Governor’s mansion.
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Thinking again about SPD failing to respond quickly to the hate crime at Wing Luke Museum.
And we’re supposed to trust them to investigate hate crimes when those hateful beliefs are shared within the department?
NEW: Seattle Police Department Officer Burton Hill called his Chinese American neighbor, Zhen Jin, a racial slur (ch***) during a confrontation in August 2022.
@TheStranger
got the audio recording
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Every city should do this.
A new law in San Diego, which will go into effect at the beginning of 2022, requires grocery stores and other food suppliers to donate all edible food waste to a food rescue organization or food bank.
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🗣️Tacoma Summer plan to keep teens safe begins Monday night
From June 26 to Sep. 1, teens can not only get dinner every night, but they can also use open gyms, do art and music activities and hang out with friends.
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I’d be very surprised if the call they received specified a Black woman. Especially since no one from the restaurant even needed to look at me to tell them I wasn’t who they called about.
So I’m left wondering why they stopped me out of everyone there. And I’m still shaking.
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Alexis Rinck is essentially at 50% in a 5-way citywide primary as a challenger to an incumbent! WILD!
Not only is this a stunning rebuke to Woo and the council majority, it’s a testament to the genuine excitement Seattle voters have for Rinck’s progressive vision and leadership.
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I have to travel between Kent and Bellevue (17 miles) tomorrow, and I’m planning the trip via transit during this
#WeekWithoutDriving
.
It’s a 2 hour one-way trip via transit. 😬
We have to improve travel times outside of Seattle to get more people riding more often.
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Do any of you remember the staffed child care rooms at Fred Meyer?
Where you could drop off your kids while you shopped?
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🙌🏾 The wages in Renton have been raised!
Renton’s minimum wage initiative is leading by 57.5% to 42%!
Congratulations to the
@RTWRenton
campaign and the workers of Renton!
#waelex
#Renton
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This is a cowardly way to say a cop killed a 13 year old child.
A 13-year-old boy riding a dirt bike died on Sunday during an attempted traffic stop, according to the Boynton Beach Police Department.
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One of the most disrespectful dunks in history promptly followed by telling Spike Lee to sit down.
Legendary.
Thank you Scottie Pippen for giving us this dunk on Patrick Ewing. We appreciate you.
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@salamasinamusic
One big problem is that if people aren’t very online, they aren’t exposed to information about post-infection risks and don’t connect their symptoms. It’s easy to overestimate how much the average person knows. It’s a failure of our public health and healthcare system.
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We all knew it was coming.
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Seattleites support more dense housing - even beyond sixplexes
65% of respondents to a recent poll targeting high propensity Seattle voters support constructing four-to six-story apartment buildings “anywhere in Seattle” to expand social housing
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“The office of Mayor Bruce Harrell, who has proposed giving thousands of city employees a “cost of living adjustment” significantly below the rate of inflation, sent out an email to city workers this week containing tips and tricks for spending less money.”
“Financial Self-Care” Email Advises City Employees Seeking Wage Increase to “Avoid Impulse Buys”; Council Funds Student Mental Health
New at PubliCola:
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I’m still not over this ✨illuminating✨ story about Mayor Harrell expecting ethnic media to “celebrate” him.
Kudos to the journalists who placed the public interest over access.
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At what point we going to acknowledge that the Seattle Chamber now functions as a mega-corp lobbyist pushing policies that actually hurt the city’s small businesses?
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Sawant has survived the recall attempt against her. She's proven once again that most voters in her district agree with her.
Now let's see if most the coverage moving forward focuses on exploring those voters' lives and concerns instead of big corp talking points.
#WAelex
With today's drop,
@cmkshama
pull ahead by 232 votes. "Recall no" appears headed to victory.
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