Not so whacked out that Seattle-ites want another
Kshama Sawant in office;
State House Speaker Frank Chopp was the Legislature’s biggest winner
Tuesday night, as the veteran Seattle housing activist blew away his
43rd District foe Jess Spear, a candidate from the Socialist Alternative
movement of nonstop-demonstrating Seattle City Council member Kshama
Sawant.
Chopp took 80.11 percent of the first vote count of this year’s
primary election. Challenger Spear, a climate researcher not long in
the district, trailed with just 19.06 percent of the vote. Spear,
Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party had run on a platform of rent
control.
Which, is such a disaster, says Joel Connelly;
The central plank of Spear’s campaign — rent control — has been a colossal failure in New York and San Francisco.
So don't bring any
princesses out to the Pacific Northwest, expecting lifetime nearly-free housing.
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