What to make of these recent political developments? Seattle has clearly shifted back to the progressive camp. The centrists are sinking, one after the other. Mayor Bruce Harrell is the latest to go under. It is mathematically impossible for him to catch up, and he is expected to concede today.

The remaining members of a center that swelled in the 2023 election (Rob Saka, Robert Kettle, Joy Hollingsworth, Maritza Rivera) are likely to reassess the “public safety” mania that got them elected and essentially came down to reducing a structurally induced housing crisis and stagnant wages to those who fell through the paper-thin bottom floor of an otherwise very rich city. The centrist Dan Strauss? Never really existed. He was just a dream. Expect him to wake up one of these fine mornings as t

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