In a recent editorial entitled “Seattle’s Coming Socialist Experiment,” the Washington Post says with much of the country fixated on New York City’s decision to elect as mayor a socialist with little experience, it was easy to miss that Seattle has done the same. They say that voters across the country will now get to witness two real-time experiments in radical governance. They’re referring to Katie Wilson, who was elected Mayor of Seattle earlier this month. The Post says that Ms. Wilson is an activist with even less experience than New York’s Zohran Mamdani and was a first-time candidate with no meaningful management experience. They even point out that like Mamdani, she also wants to open government-run grocery stores….Indeed.
“Who is Wilson? She does not own a car. She lives in a rented 600-square-foot apartment with her husband and two-year-old daughter. By her own account, she depends on checks from her parents back east to cover expenses. To let them off the hook, she seeks to force residents of Seattle to pay for “free” child care and other goodies.”
“Fourteen years ago, after working odd jobs as a barista, baker, lab technician and legal assistant, Wilson co-founded an advocacy group called Transit Riders Union to agitate for better public transportation, paid for by new and higher taxes.”
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