Carrie Barnes

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I think Bruce Harrell should be *required* to continue posting tiktoks from the official city account, to prove he wasn't just using public resources to promote his campaign

If SCOTUS isn't going to even pretend to be a legitimate body concerned about the rule of law, why should Americans continue to treat it as a legitimate institution?

This is amazing! 👇

The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist: examines the deep-rooted impact of slavery in shaping America's political, economic, and social landscape.

Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen hands reins to son Ryan Blethen Ryan Blethen succeeds his father, Frank Blethen, who will step down Dec. 31 after four decades in the role.

No one should ever listen to advice on "how to save journalism" from a company whose entire business model is "keep producing sons"

www.seattletimes.com/business/loc...

This is amazing

By god, Sherman nailed them: "“…Sons of [Southern] planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them …”

The transfer of budget dollars from blue collar workers (bus drivers), who directly provide a service, to white collar professionals (transit safety czars), who narrate slide decks at council meetings, is a problem that needs to be reversed.

Thursday, November 13th drop: Katie Wilson now leads Bruce Harrell by 2,018 votes.

Neither condition for a mandatory recount is satisfied anymore. There won't be a recount. Also, Harrell conceded today. He knows he's done.

#seaelex

11/13
Katie Wilson
138,673
50.20%

Bruce Harrell
136,655
49.47%

Katie Wilson has won the race to be Seattle's mayor.

Bruce Harrell is expected to make a concession speech tomorrow.

Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Seattle's mayor race update:

Katie Wilson's lead grows to 1,346 votes over and incumbent corporate-Democrat Bruce Harrell.

Kate Wilson won 61.23% of the 6,121 ballots counted today.

Overall total:

Katie Wilson 50.08% 137,217
Bruce Harrell 49.59% 135,871
Write-in 0.33% 908

Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to working together in building a city that is affordable, safe, and thriving for working families!

I think it’s now safe to call this race.

Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.

BREAKING: King County Elections' Veterans Day drop is in. Katie Wilson now has a lead of 1,346 votes in the Seattle mayoral race.

Wilson is on track for a slim victory.

#seaelex

Katie Wilson
137,217
50.08%

Bruce Harrell
135,871
49.59%

Katie Wilson’s lead grows in race for Seattle mayor Katie Wilson leads Bruce Harrell by more than 1,300 votes after Tuesday's election update.

Katie Wilson is now almost certainly Seattle's 58th mayor. We spoke just now: "We’re going to wait for all of the ballots to be counted, but I think we won this race." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

With basically all the ballots in the city of Seattle's mayoral election counted, Katie Wilson is now above 50 percent, with Mayor Bruce Harrell sliding to 49.6 percent. They're currently within the mandatory recount requirements, but machine recounts don't generally change things much.

Wilson's up 1,346 votes.

This race is likely over.

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.

Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party? Zohran Mamdani isn’t the only candidate challenging the status quo—and having fun doing it.

The exciting talent @katiewilson.bsky.social has taken a narrow lead as ballots are still being counted in the Seattle mayoral race.
If you want a sense of why this is very cool news, here's something of mine from earlier this fall
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Extremely, extremely likely Katie wins now. Keep the foot on the gas with ballot curing, and here we go!

Seattle - check your ballot: voter.votewa.gov

KATIE TAKES THE LEAD!!🎊

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Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell was putting out at least a press release daily celebrating all the amazing things the mayor's office was doing right up until, let's see, November 3.

Nothing since then, though. Weird!

With another 56,000 votes counted in the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson has narrowed the gap with incumbent Bruce Harrell to just 4,300 votes, and received just under 55 percent of the vote in the latest count, with perhaps 50,000 votes remaining to be counted. That's a solid turnaround.

This is incredible. King County elections is now saying they have 45,000 ballots left to count. If Wilson gets exactly the same margin of those as she got today she'll take the lead by... 20 votes!

The progressive slate is poised to take over the Burien City Council and that rules.

@sarah4burien.bsky.social
@hugo4burien.bsky.social
@electrocco.bsky.social