Bruce Harrell and Katie Wilson both want to be Seattle’s next mayor. They are otherwise not alike at all.

The election is Tuesday and when the clock strikes 8 p.m. — when ballot are due — their months of campaigning will come to an end.

Harrell, whose father was Black and mother was Japanese American, is Seattle’s longest-serving politician, with a decade more time in City Hall than anyone else. Wilson, who’s white, was known mostly to insiders before her campaign, a powerful advocate for left-wing causes who worked the halls of government but never sat behind the desk.

Wilson, 43, took a circuitous route to City Hall, dropping out of college to pursue what she felt was a more honest life of toil and grassroots change, a road that led her to founding her nonprofit, the Transit Riders Un

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