Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but #Mamdani Appeal
#KatieWilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/seattle-mayor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E8.kNNw.f8pJXshaiXwx&smid=url-share
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In a state without an income tax, the mayor-elect has promised to pursue what she calls “#progressive” new sources of revenue to pay for #housing and other basic services, including potential local taxes on capital gains, digital advertising and buildings purposely left vacant. She has pledged to push a $1 billion bond to build more homes and new protections for renters, who make up 56 percent of the city.
“There was a time when we saw #Seattle as kind of a laboratory for progressive policy,” Ms. Wilson said in an interview this fall. “And that time’s not now anymore. But why can’t it be?”
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