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Socialist councilwoman Kshama Sawant won't run for re-election. There's a reason for it and it's not that she doesn't have a fringe base for support -- she does.
She's not running because she's become wholly ineffective on the council. Few like her. She's toxic. /1
She's not running because she's become wholly ineffective on the council. Few like her. She's toxic. /1
When she was first elected, she undoubtedly had legislative accomplishments like #15Now, which then-mayor Ed Murray tried to steal credit for. But that was Sawant.
She used to speak to all media outlets (I did a couple dozen interviews with her) and be more proactive. /2
She used to speak to all media outlets (I did a couple dozen interviews with her) and be more proactive. /2
But she grew angrier and more isolated due, I think, the recall efforts against her. She BARELY scraped by the last recall challenge. People were growing weary of her nasty and divisive rhetoric. /3
