He’s not counting on it and certainly not hoping for it, but Seattle’s longest-serving elected official — who briefly looked like he might coast to a fourth term — suddenly finds himself caught between two opponents representing opposite visions of what the city attorney’s office might be. If the two ends of Seattle’s political spectrum flock to either side of him, Holmes could fall through the middle.
“It’s a strange place for me to be,” said Holmes.
To his left, Holmes faces Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a former public defender who’s running an explicitly abolitionist campaign. Her goal is to roll back the prosecution of those accused of misdemeanor crimes. She has
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