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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️ @maytagsmom.bsky.social · 4m

Why Harrell keeps getting away with lying on the debate is really something else.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6m

Question about Harrell hiring Adrian Diaz and allegations that he runs a "boys' club." He says no mayor in history has had to terminate a police chief but him and that he didn't hire Diaz, he was "handed to" him. In fact, Harrell encouraged Diaz to apply and hired him.

Mayor Harrell Announces First Steps in Permanent Police Chief Search

Mayor ‘Pleased’ with Interim Chief Adrian Diaz, who is encouraged to apply

harrell.seattle.gov

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6m

Question about Harrell hiring Adrian Diaz and allegations that he runs a "boys' club." He says no mayor in history has had to terminate a police chief but him and that he didn't hire Diaz, he was "handed to" him. In fact, Harrell encouraged Diaz to apply and hired him.

Mayor Harrell Announces First Steps in Permanent Police Chief Search

Mayor ‘Pleased’ with Interim Chief Adrian Diaz, who is encouraged to apply

harrell.seattle.gov

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 8m

Another bizarre gotcha for Wilson: Are you planning to hire Joe Mallahan, Lorena Gonzalez, and Tammy Morales as deputy mayors? She looks at him like he has an extra head and says no, I'm definitely not gonna answer that.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 11m

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 12m

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 19m

WIlson cites my reporting on Mike Tietjen, saying maybe Harrell should pay more attention to what the police chief is doing. publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

publicola.com

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 26m

When Harrell supports a plan that requires changing the state tax code, it’s fine. When Wilson proposes a plan that requires changing the state tax code, it’s impossible.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29m

Harrell talks about the B&O tax proposal and some other programs that help small businesses, and notes his support for exempting ALL grocery stores of any size from all state B&O taxes.
"We're not flippin' up pizza and making fun of it!"
That video: www.instagram.com/reel/DJkA6Du...

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 31m

Daniels wants to know if the high cost of pizza in Seattle isn't because of the minimum wage increase Wilson worked for. She corrects him (she ran campaigns for minimum wages outside Seattle) and notes that the point of that video is that high housing costs contribute to high labor costs.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 41m

Wilson notes that the police department appears to be filling ICE records requests far faster than they are for journalists (I'm still waiting on records requested more than two years ago, for instance.) www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

While many journalists and Seattleites wait years for the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to fulfill languishing public records requests, the SPD is fulfilling Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (I...

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 45m

Wilson says she'll bring in passionate, competent people with deep experience. "Maybe you'll even see a couple people from Mayor Harold's office, I don't know." Harrell pretty stony-faced at that one.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 46m

Balter asks the crowd, which clapped and snapped when Wilson noted that his campaign is being funded by big corporations, to be quiet—for the second time. Lots of side-eye at that.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 45m

How do you do, fellow progressives!

a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard on his back

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard on his back

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 50m

Wilson says she supports the business and occupation tax Harrell and City Councilmember Alexis Rinck proposed, noting that it's one of the options that the progressive revenue task force she helped lead came up with as possibilities.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 50m

downtown is not jn the comp plan we haven't even see what proposed changes are. oops.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 51m

"We're reinventing downtown" with "experiential activity" like "music, dog parks, day care, art, buskers, culture." Plus housing on top of the Triple Door. The new comp plan "cuts through red tape" to improve downtown, he says. (They haven't passed that part?)

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 51m

"We're reinventing downtown" with "experiential activity" like "music, dog parks, day care, art, buskers, culture." Plus housing on top of the Triple Door. The new comp plan "cuts through red tape" to improve downtown, he says. (They haven't passed that part?)

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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 1h

COLUMN: What this mayoral election owes "Black Seattle."

Marcus Harrison Green looks beyond identity politics to ask how Black Seattleites are actually doing — featuring voices from across the diaspora and scrutiny of both Harrell and Wilson.

Read here: soseaem.org/3IVyOSC #Seattle

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'

From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison…

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3h

October in Seattle.

Downtown waterfront looking north from Colman Dock with a fireboat at the dock and wispy clouds over the water

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 2h

Although we disagree with the conclusions from SDOT's traffic study, its traffic counts were very eye-opening:
• Over 3 times as many people use Denny Way to access areas east of I-5 than to access I-5 S
• Of the people continuing east, 35% do so in a car, 34% in a Route 8 bus, and 31% on foot

Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 14d

SDOT has updated their post about Denny Way bus lanes and have uploaded the full traffic study, which you can read below.

In short, it's a 516 page document that does not mention mode shift or alternate routing a single time.

seattle.gov/documents/De...

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 3h

I’d like a new public pool too, please 🙏

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10h

Seattle hasn't built a new public library in twenty years. It would be great to see the city thinking about this when it comes to redeveloping properties like the Mercer Garage.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10h

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 3h

That must’ve been in the @nwprogressive.org pre-primary polling because that’s the only public head-to-head I’ve seen. I’d believe it though!

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 4h

It’s bizarre! Voters are like “things are looking up, despite the fact that our leaders have completely failed us!”

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry urbanism nerds but even though YIMBY is ascendant, transportation issues are just not really a priority. I think Harrell’s election year push on paving and graffiti, the two rock bottom issues here, isn’t winning him many votes.

Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 4h

Some very interesting results in this Seattle Chamber of Commerce poll.

www.seattlechamber.com/wp-content/u...

1) Homelessness and public safety are still top issues but both are declining in salience and affordability has caught up with public safety.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks former Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold for your endorsement! #thisisyourcity

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 4h

6) Despite all this, Seattleites love Seattle and aren’t afraid to show it. This must frustrate the Harrell campaign to no end!

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 4h

4) On growth, big majorities are pro-growth and want to see faster progress on development.

5) On CCTV, voters are split. In the appendix it’s clear that seniors are all in while younger voters, especially millennials, really hate it. No clear divides in race.

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