Progressives Rally Behind Katie Wilson in Home Stretch to Seattle Mayoral Election
Speakers laid out stark differences between Seattle’s two mayoral candidates at a campaign rally for Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson on Sunday. Many made the case that the contrast extends to fundamental political instincts and approach: Wilson is a bottom-up coalition-builder and a movement mayor, but incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell represents the top-down old guard more interested in protecting those who already have power, they argued.
A crowd of more than 100 people at Washington Hall in the Central District cheered on fiery speeches from a slate of prominent Wilson endorsers and the candidate herself. The campaign urged attendees to turn their ballots at drop boxes as soon as possible and urge their friends and family to do the same, ahead of the close of the general election voting period on Tuesday, November 4.
State Senator Rebecca Saldaña (D-Seattle, 37th Legislative District) said Katie Wilson’s opponents have often underestimated her to their detriment.
“I can tell you my experience over the last 16 years of knowing her is that she constantly is underestimated, but because she knows how to organize, because she knows how to build coalitions, because she knows how to really understand power, and then be able to organize a plan around how to shift that power towards our vision that she is ready to be the mayor.”
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