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Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson, 43, said now that she has been elected mayor and is earning more money as a result, she no longer needs to ask her parents for help to pay the bills.

Wilson, who recently told CNN that she thought embracing the help she got from her parents made her more “relatable” to Seattle voters, quipped on social media that “after much deliberation and a grueling interview process” she was “pleased” to announce that her higher salary as mayor will mean she no longer needs financial support from her parents. During Wilson’s campaign, she credited her parents’ financial support for allowing her to run.

“My opponent’s campaign and the corporate PAC that tried to stop my election certainly cast it as a negative thing,” Wilso

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