Echohawk, 44, joins what is so far a small list of people interested in what some consider the city’s hardest job. Andrew Grant Houston, an architect and interim policy manager for Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, announced his urbanist-friendly candidacy shortly after the new year. And Lance Randall, interim executive director of affordable housing developer SouthEast Effective Development, declared his candidacy in the fall.
In an interview, Echohawk cast herself as someone who could bring people together at a tense time, pledging to reach out to representatives in business, labor, activism and more. It’s a message that worked in the campaigns of Seattle’s past two mayors and could serve as a
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