It's tempting to point a finger at the city of Seattle and tell the residents of that troubled town, "Well, what did you expect?" The city elected a new mayor, Katie Wilson, from the lunatic ranks of the "democratic socialists" (commies) and now she is proving to be utterly incompetent. Crime is on the uptick, and now, after Mayor Wilson has been in office only a few months, there is already a recall petition circulating.
The Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) chief, Kent Loux, is not surprised. Watch:
When a mayor has lost the cops, that mayor is in trouble. Remember Bill de Blasio? When the NYPD literally turned their backs on him? This may be even worse.
On Friday, the Center Square discussed Seattle's woes in more detail.
The North Seattle couple who filed the recall charge earlier this week against Wilson say the mayor is failing in her duty to protect the people of the city.
“Personally, I, my husband, and many other people in Seattle, do not believe she has done a good job with public safety,” Melinda Jacobson said in a Friday interview with The Center Square.
Jacobson and her husband, Dale Osterud, say that Wilson needs to be recalled for her handling of public safety issues in the city.
She said the fact that it took five hours for the city to have a press conference after the Bite of Seattle food festival shooting on July 26 to assure the public that there wasn't an ongoing threat points to Wilson’s lack of experience.
“It’s unacceptable,” she said.
Of course it's unacceptable. But what should Seattle have expected, from a mayor whose resume is so thin that you can read the fine print in an auto-loan contract through it?
I recently had occasion to spend some time (about 48 hours, which is about 47 hours and 58 minutes too long to suit me) in Seattle. As is my habit, I spoke to a few of the locals, my own innate curiosity prompting me to see what they thought of the new regime. Responses were spotty, but the older and more career-minded people I spoke with, in the city's university hospital, were not sanguine about the new mayor's performance so far. And, like the SPOG chief, some of them, including all of the several Uber drivers we interacted with, were concerned about the growing homeless encampments and the rising crime rate.
Now, to be fair, a lot of those problems existed before Mayor Wilson took office. Seattle was a deep-blue city with the usual stupidities that plague such jurisdictions long before anyone had ever heard of Katie Wilson, including revolving-door justice systems, festering homeless encampments and the open-air drug use and human trafficking that do with them, and more. But when you have a city already plagued with these problems, problems that are so rampant in leftist locales, it seems counter-intuitive for voters to try to deal with the city's woes by lurching even farther to the left.
So, will this recall go anywhere? It might. Katie Wilson, in the 2025 race for the mayor's job, won over incumbent Bruce Harrell by less than one percent of the vote. That's a tiny margin, and it might indicate that a recall might squeak through on a similar margin. It would require only flipping a tad over 2,000 voters, out of over 275,000 votes cast, if we apply the 2025 numbers. Will that happen? And, given deep-blue Seattle's body politic, will it make any difference?
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