Mayor Jenny Durkan opted not to seek reelection. Among the frontrunners, then, Seattle City Council President Lorena González, if she wins the August primary and advances to the November general election, will be the effective incumbent. That’s not because she and the mayor are politically aligned, they aren’t.
González will have to play defense because she leads a wildly unpopular council, and also because she epitomizes some of its more alienating actions.
One example: Last summer, at the height of protests and unrest, the city council, including González, pushed hard to defund the police up to 50%. (That deep of cut never happened.)
That was then, this is now. We
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