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Scott Alspach

@salspach.bsky.social

Seattleite. Urbanist. Democrat.

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Seattle folks, you should not trust any local politicians who treat Jonathan Choe as a serious journalist.

08.10.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

08.10.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 546    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Donโ€™t be intimidated into shutting up.

08.10.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11586    ๐Ÿ” 4088    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 324    ๐Ÿ“Œ 145

Big business has the money to carry the Harrell campaign, but they donโ€™t have the votes, so Harrell is leaning on his โ€œdeep roots in the community.โ€ With the nimbys pissed, labor waffling, and a sizable portion of the electorate from elsewhere, Harrellโ€™s path to re-election could not be narrower.

07.10.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Read about this utter management Charlie Foxtrot by Bruce Harrell, and then try to tell me with a straight face that you are Concerned About Katie Wilsonโ€™s Management Skills.

08.10.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bruce Harrell has failed again and again on policing in Seattle. We badly need new leadership.

07.10.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just think your ire should be directed at electeds and not blaming activists who have to work within the system and funding constraints the legislature gives us.

Initiative 1098 was one attempt at a "grand bargain" and had a lot of financial backing but it still failed 2-1.

07.10.2025 04:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We can't expect advocates for specific issues to bet everything (school closures, transit funding, housing, etc.) on getting tax reform passed when the legislature won't even take the small steps like a wealth tax. And Ferguson is a huge blocker too.

07.10.2025 04:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't disagree with you on the need for comprehensive reform but the barrier to that is you need a significant portion of the Dem caucus on board and they just aren't even close. They overwhelmingly voted to ban an income tax via initiative recently and won't even let cities do our own.

07.10.2025 04:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wilson for Seattle Join me in supporting Wilson for Seattle

You donโ€™t have to be in Seattle to donate to elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social !!
Her opponent has raised a ridiculous amount from outside the city between his campaign and PAC. Give today!

Contributions are limited to $650 per person, including Democracy Vouchers for the entire election.

06.10.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It confuses me why you think this is an activist problem and not a legislature problem.

Every activist I know is aware of our completely broken tax system and very open to how to fix it but we can't even get the legislature to pass a wealth tax which should be table stakes for tax reform.

06.10.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

06.10.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13362    ๐Ÿ” 5886    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 166    ๐Ÿ“Œ 104
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A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity

06.10.2025 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 174    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

A huge failure by Bruce Harrell. If you want to actually tackle homelessness in Seattle, vote for Katie Wilson.

06.10.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This pretty explicitly is not Jenny Durkan but instead her more progressive opponent, kind of proves the point!

06.10.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Monisha Harrell breaks silence on her uncle โ€“ and former boss โ€“ Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell Monisha Harrell describes the mayorโ€™s office as being a dog-eat-dog environment where white male advisors vied for power and influence. She said her experience, as a high-level woman ignored by the ma...

The thing is, Harrell is objectively a bad manager! Yes, Katie is unproven in some respects (though I have full confidence in her) but that's vastly preferable to what Harrell has shown us over 20 years in office.

www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

06.10.2025 00:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Times profile of Katie Wilson being highlighted in an email. "Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for Mayor"

A Times profile of Katie Wilson being highlighted in an email. "Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for Mayor"

This is so incredibly condescending from the Seattle Times. Do you also ask male candidates if they'd considered running for an "easier" office?

05.10.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 554    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

The ones after him had loads of political experience. They all sucked

Ed Murrayโ€”state senatorโ€”1 term mayor went down in a sex scandal

Jenny Durkanโ€”federal prosecutorโ€”1 term mayor and didnโ€™t seek re-election

Bruce Harrellโ€”16 years on city council, 4 years as mayorโ€”has achieved nothing

05.10.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a *staggeringly* biased and dismissive thing for @kromandavid.bsky.social to write about Wilson, who beat Harrell by 10 points in the primary. I hadnโ€™t heard or seen anyone suggest she should run for Council instead until this article. It seems entirely invented by Kroman.

05.10.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A graphic in Katie Wilson for Mayor campaign colors reading "Rep. Pramila Jayapal and King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda announce endorsements of Katie Wilson."

A graphic in Katie Wilson for Mayor campaign colors reading "Rep. Pramila Jayapal and King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda announce endorsements of Katie Wilson."

As a coalition of billionaires, landlords, and real estate developers invest more than $1.2 million in Bruce Harrellโ€™s re-election, local progressive leaders Pramila Jayapal and Teresa Mosqueda are announcing their endorsements of Katie Wilson.

03.10.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 220    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

03.10.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 742    ๐Ÿ” 192    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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The Making of Katie Wilson She’s coming for the mayor’s office.

Thank you to The Stranger for this in-depth profile! #thisisyourcity www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10...

03.10.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Chaos at Bruce Harrell's SDOT as they back down on plans to remove a bus lane at the request of business owners.

It doesn't have to be this way! We shouldn't have to fight to keep improvements that have already been built.

03.10.2025 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seattle's clown mayor is trying out a brilliant new slogan for his re-election campaign

02.10.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

As far as I can tell, SDOT seemed to think this would be a fairly routine change, with the Mayor's Office caught completely off guard by the public pushback.

02.10.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 180    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."

02.10.2025 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 142    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 74
Anna Zivarts

Anna Zivarts

Book Cover: โ€œWhen Driving is not an Optionโ€

Book Cover: โ€œWhen Driving is not an Optionโ€

Honored to have Anna Zivarts, who created the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge, speaking at our October meeting!

Join us: 6PM Thu 10/2 Beacon Hill Library

02.10.2025 06:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

actual events of the video aside, this is a perfect encapsulation of where these nazis stand in society. There's one of them for every several thousand normal people. They know everyone thinks they're weird little freaks, which is why they spend all their time pretending to be mainstream

02.10.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 816    ๐Ÿ” 180    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.

01.10.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 477    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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In tonightโ€™s New Jersey Lt. Gov debate, Jack Ciattarelliโ€™s running mate Jim Gannon said - out loud - that new taxes are on the table for NJ residentsโ€ฆEXCEPT FOR MILLIONAIRES!!!

Clip via @umichvoter.bsky.social on X.

01.10.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 615    ๐Ÿ” 313    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66

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