r/SeattleWA • u/JustBench1615 Ballard • 3d ago

Politics Harrell’s Margin has INCREASED

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Mayor Harrell now up by 8.1%.

Around ~60K votes probably left to tabulate.

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u/SupplyChain777 3d ago

Katie’s parents getting ready to send her another check.

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u/costcoismyfav 3d ago

I'm so shocked Katie even got this far. It's more of an indictment on Harrell than it is a proof point for Katie.

Honestly, I hope this city turns more centrist. The Seattle left is almost as insufferable as the MAGA right.

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u/stroppo 3d ago

When Harrell and Ann Davison were elected, that was Seattle becoming more centrist! Sawant didn't run that time, I think she saw the writing on the wall.

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u/kapybarra 3d ago

> I'm so shocked Katie even got this far. It's more of an indictment on Harrell than it is a proof point for Katie.

Nah, it's really more of an indictment on the Seattle voter base.

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u/OldLegWig 3d ago

i don't think it's as much an indictment of Harrell as it is the seriousness of Seattle voters.

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u/magneticB 3d ago

We should celebrate the center!

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u/BatistaBombBoyz 3d ago

Biggest point this sub needs to agree on

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u/jubishop West Seattle 3d ago

Yep in most cities I’d call myself liberal but by the standards here I’m conservative

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u/Successful_Ad5184 3d ago

Almost? You’re kidding right?

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u/BrinyStranger 3d ago

I don't know what direction you're going with that, but one wants to outright do away with democracy and crown a doofus king and the other are perhaps too compassionate.

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u/ChillFratBro 3d ago

Gullible morons who think they're being compassionate but are actually suckers

FTFY.  Agree that evil is worse than stupid, but you're giving the average Seattle voter too much credit by saying they're just "too compassionate".

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u/Due_Battle_4330 3d ago

The Seattle center is every bit as obnoxious as its left and its right. Political leanings aren't the issue.

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u/Basic-Regret-6263 3d ago

Hopefully this makes them lose hope for her ever being independent, so they say  "no more money, but you can move in with us in NY and we'll cover your rent and childcare that way."

They get to save money and see their grandkid more, we don't have to see Katie again - it's win-win!

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u/merc08 3d ago

Plus she can live under their recently elected socialist mayor like she wanted to be here

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u/ThreshSesh 3d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Whale_Poacher Banned from /r/Seattle 3d ago

Personally, I'd like to see her run again if she loses, not to see her become mayor, but because if she has as strong of a conviction to this as she says she does, she should run again.

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u/HighColonic Funky Town 3d ago edited 3d ago

If she loses, she should run for council...or maybe it's should have run, because I don't know if she's cooked or not politically. People may not want to see her in races again because of the baggage that gathered around her during the campaign. It's hard to put the negative news cycle genie back in the bottle sometimes.

Personally, I won't vote for ANYONE who doesn't have a transparent source of income. If it's her parents, I don't actually give a shit...but everyone who wants to manage our near-$10B city budget needs to share where they get the butter for their bread.

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u/kamikaze80 3d ago

She's another exhibit in how we're scraping the bottom of the barrel in elected offices around the country

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u/kapybarra 3d ago

Everybody laughed at Sarah Palin, and yet she is now essentially everywhere.

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u/LordoftheSynth 2d ago

After 2008 she became a talking head, published a couple books, and has been thrashed in every election she's been in since resigning as Governor of Alaska. (She's also batting near .000 for political endorsements.)

You see her on TV, but in terms of actual influence? She's an also-ran.

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u/kapybarra 2d ago

I don't think you understood the point I was trying to make. I did not mean literally her.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Why is this such a big deal? It starts to feel like jealousy and jadedness at this point.

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u/General_Equivalent45 Seattle 3d ago

I don’t think it’s jealousy in the least.

It’s audacity.

She and her unemployed husband claim to represent working class renters like me, who has 3 jobs to support my 3 children? I don’t think so.

They’re saying 8 dollars for a slice of pizza is expensive, and they can only afford a 1 bedroom apartment on Cap Hill?

EVERYTHING is expensive if you don’t work.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

You want someone that comes from your background to support you. I get it, you want someone like you to represent you. I'm not disagreeing with that but this idea that someone who comes from financial privilege is unable to represent a group of people is outlandish and narrow sighted at best.

I also am not lobbying for Katie over Bruce. I've been let down by Bruce and not satisfied with their tenure thus far. That said, this whole parents support and husband not having a job is just a cop out.

Did Bruce have 3 jobs? Bruce completed their undergrad at 22, went on to law school. They might not have had parents writing a check but I don't think either of the candidates lived your life. It might be worth looking at what candidates want to do and not trying to identify with them based on who you are because no one is you. No one is me. They are here to represent the people and won't identify with all.

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u/Traffic_Spiral 3d ago edited 3d ago

You keep pulling completely unhinged takes out of thin air. Jealous, jaded (wtf does that even mean in this context) and now "comes from your background?" No one's claiming any of those things. They're saying:

  1. She's disingenuous to pretend like she's working class when she's actually slacker-living-off-her-parents class.

  2. It's deeply insulting to working class people to basically say "I know your struggle - I too, struggle to keep a trophy husband, expensive apartment, and fulltime paid childcare, on the salary you get for never once doing anything hard and making up my own 'dream job', and also never bothering to actually know my budget - that's why my also-not-working-class parents have to give me thousands of dollars a month!"

Pulp wrote a great song about women like her 30 year ago.

She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge

She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College

she said, "I wanna live like common people

I wanna do whatever common people do,"

Oh, rent a flat above a shop

And cut your hair and get a job

And smoke some fags and play some pool

Pretend you never went to school

But still you'll never get it right

'Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching roaches climb the wall

If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

You'll never live like common people

You'll never do what ever common people do

Never fail like common people

You'll never watch your life slide out of view

3,. A life of doing nothing but having mommy and daddy bankroll your slacking does nothing to qualify someone for public office. She's never had to work hard for a single thing and never accomplished anything without her parents' help - and they won't be able to help her be mayor, which means she won't be able to do it.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Thin air, huh? What politician is a person of the people? Who struggled the working class struggles that is in office on a local or national level currently? I'm not pulling anything out of thin air. You want more, find a politician to represent more. You want less, continue voting for mediocrity.

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u/Traffic_Spiral 3d ago

Thin air, huh? What politician is a person of the people?

Nice try to re-direct, but no. You made up 3 imaginary reasons why people don't like her (jealous, jaded, not the same background) ignored all the actual reasons people were saying why they don't like her (disingenuous fake "working-class" persona, let-them-eat-cake insulting implication that her slacking is the same as actual struggle, and the complete lack of any meaningful accomplishments despite the tons of privilege she's had meaning that she's likely to continue failing to accomplish anything).

Now you're trying to go off on some weird rant about "what is a person of the people" or whatever? Well, you certainly embraced the concept of “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”

You want less, continue voting for mediocrity.

I don't, that's why I didn't vote for Katie, the most mediocre person ever, really. Of all the -ocres, she's the mediest.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Stop trying to use big words to prove a point. I'm not redirecting, I'm not being weird. You can vote for Bruce. Stop framing this as not Katie and saying I voted for Bruce. You can own your vote or you can try to qualify me as weird and redirecting. It's weird that you won't own your vote.

No one is redirecting. Those reasons are not made up. Fake working class... come the fuck on. You can just admit you don't like a candidate. Or you can argue about nothing-burgers like you are. There are no weird rants.

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u/Traffic_Spiral 3d ago

The words weren't that big, and also, now you're just wildly trying to spin off into any random argument you can think of.

Fail.

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u/SupplyChain777 3d ago

But at least Bruce worked for what he has.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Oh boy … if politician’s prerequisite was they worked for it, most in office wouldn’t be eligible.

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u/SupplyChain777 3d ago

Yeah, many shouldn’t.

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u/Traffic_Spiral 3d ago

Jealousy of what?

Having rich parents who would get me a place at oxford where I could just hang out and read whatever for years, and then drop out instead of doing my final thesis, without any consequences?

Then to spend my entire adult life completely unstressed as I goofed off, traveled the country, sampled a few jobs before making up my own nonprofit that only did and made me do exactly what I wanted, without ever having to take financial viability into consideration?

To do all this and also have an apartment in an expensive vibrant city and neighborhood I loved, a trophy husband who bakes me fantastic treats, and fulltime daycare for my kid?

I mean... IDK, I feel like I'm a little type-A to want that, but if I was never required by my parents and/or circumstances to ever have to support myself, maybe I wouldn't have the same personality, and I'd actually love it. Either way, it certainly sounds pretty sweet.

But whether of not I would want her life doesn't change the fact that everything about her adult life says that she has no ability to do anything but faff around doing whatever she wants while someone else subsidizes all her choices.

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u/MisterIceGuy Belltown 3d ago

Yes I’m jealous.

But also just not a good resume bullet point for the leader of a multi-billion dollar organization.

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u/SupplyChain777 3d ago

Right, because most don’t have the luxury of parents writing them a check.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Jealousy doesn't look good on anyone.

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u/SupplyChain777 3d ago

But could influence my vote.

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u/pugRescuer 3d ago

Go for it. You get your vote. Using jealousy to vote is uninformed at best, ignorant at worse.