“This is where I’m called to be,” he said of the City Attorney’s Office.
The state’s only elected city attorney, Holmes won his first campaign in 2009, making him Seattle’s longest tenured elected official still in office. If reelected, he would serve through at least 2025.
Part of his desire to run again relates to continuity, he said. Especially as the city emerges from a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer, Holmes said he’s eager to help new City Hall leadership through the “great reset” of public safety and the economy.
“What I want to do more than anything is roll up my sleeves and
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