https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattles-recall-fever-is-a-symptom-of-a-larger-democracy-disease/
Seattle’s recall fever is a symptom of a larger democracy disease
Seattle politics must be incomprehensible to the outside world.
For example our mayor, Jenny Durkan, has been the object of conservative scorn nationwide all
summer for coddling the protesters (the president at one point dubbed her a “radical leftist” for this reason).
But here? There’s a Seattle movement to dump her from office — for being too rough on the protesters.
Or consider that on Wednesday in a King County courtroom, a drive kicks off seeking to also recall
Kshama Sawant, the socialist City Council member. It’s an effort Sawant derides as the work of her
usual enemies, “the billionaires and the right wing.”
But the originator of the petition actually is a “bleeding heart liberal” and anti-Trumper who, over the
years, has donated hundreds to local Democratic groups and candidates, including to the current
Democratic state party chair, Tina Podlodowski. What’s Capitol Hill resident Ernie Lou’s main beef
with Sawant? It’s that she’s too much like … Donald Trump.
Specifically Lou’s recall petition, which a Superior Court judge will hear Wednesday, goes after Sawant
for holding an indoor rally at City Hall that Lou contends violated both the state and local coronavirus
restrictions — which is what Trump just did in Nevada over the weekend.