There’s a new political action committee (PAC) in town and it’s all in for Katie Wilson, the progressive mayoral candidate who whooped Mayor Bruce Harrell in the primary.

PROTEC17, the union for professional and technical city workers, had already endorsed Wilson over their boss when it kickstarted the Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle PAC, rubbing more salt in the Mayor’s gaping electoral wounds. Together with non-profit Common Power, the union filed the PAC’s paperwork on primary day in preparation for the lengthy and expensive general election to come.

A PAC might be the only way that Wilson can continue fundraising this campaign season. In Seattle elections, candidates that participate in the Democracy Voucher Program are subject to spending limits. Candidates for mayor generall

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