David Kroman

Did Ryan Lizza get hit with a cease and desist or something? Where's part II?

Ritual burning in effigy during the seventh inning stretch?

As for Surratt and Mantilla, they're picks that appeal to a lot of different interest groups in the city. I heard their names yesterday from someone who was a Harrell backer and the person was quite pleased. Pham is someone who's enormously well respected for her work in Little Saigon.

McCoy because the social housing vote catalyzed Wilson’s run and Estevenin because PROTEC17 backed Wilson when most people thought she was a long shot and despite Harrell being its members’ boss

Not that this is why they’re doing this or why it was offered, but to the extent Wilson owes her election to anyone, the top two candidates are probably McCoy and Estevenin

Yeah it’s squishy. I suspect it’s unlikely she can find a veto-proof majority between now and Dec. 31

One of WA’s most powerful Democratic operatives was paid for years in unusual arrangement Some current and former city staff and elected officials say the arrangement represented a thorny conflict between politics and governance.

The bill comes a few months after @jimbrunner.bsky.social and I wrote about the unique arrangement between Sinderman and Harrell: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sara Nelson wants to restrict political consultants at Seattle City Hall Outgoing Seattle Council President Sara Nelson is proposing a bill that would restrict access to City Hall.

The tenuous decorum between Bruce Harrell’s office and Sara Nelson is evaporating, as Nelson goes after Harrell’s political consultant with new proposed legislation. Harrell’s team and consultant Christian Sinderman call it a misguided priority by a sore loser

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Honestly the fact that this deal could age badly in seasons 4/5 is why I love it. It’s a little bit irrational which is something we’ve rarely seen with this front office and what’s required to win a World Series

It’s insane lol. I would die if I found one of my old college essays written like this. She put it in New York Magazine

At least Stephen Glass was apparently a good writer

Olivia Nuzzi apparently torched all journalistic ethics in pursuit of a profile about Mark Sanford and still wrote one the worst ledes I’ve ever read

I really am sorry that your archnemesis is in charge of your favorite team's success

Oh I think there's plenty of material

I simply have never seen two souls -- who theoretically should not be that different politically -- with worse vibes between them

Everybody be sure to tune into a city council meeting before the end of the year so you can get one last dose of the excruciating interactions between Dan Strauss and Sara Nelson

Bidding farewell to what I had come to call my PAC pile (though some came from the campaigns)

If it were KCE’s fault, all of us would have been wrong. And yet, only DDHQ was. KCE never told anyone else what DDHQ claimed they told them

I didn’t know that!

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Like I said, I’d also like more clarity though I haven’t gotten a clear answer yet

As far as I can gather there was a brief period when people were confused about why the number of write ins had gone down. I got a few messages about it and I saw some activity here too. There was a clear answer, of course. I’ve been trying to get clarity but my sense is it was probably that.

The person I met yesterday who was the most nonplussed about Harrell’s loss was Tim Burgess, who was widely expected to retire at the end of the year regardless. He shrugged his shoulders at me and said “this is how this works. Peaceful transfer of power.”

Yes! On the Kitsap Transit commuter ferry no less. I was the only one to recognize him. He said he’s visiting friends.

How could Katie Wilson allow this happen

I ran into Tony Hale aka Gary from Veep on my way back from covering our new city government today lol. I said hi and he was very pleasant

Katie Wilson is now up by over 2,000 votes and 0.73%. Still an agonizingly close race, but comfortably out of the margin for a recount.

I love congratulatory statements from sitting politicians: “The takeaway from this election is clear: we need to do more of what I already thought was the most important thing”

Mayor Bruce Harrell concedes race for second term to Katie Wilson Bruce Harrell aspired to be the first two-term mayor in Seattle in decades, but fell short in the closest mayoral race this century. He waited a day to concede.

Mayor Bruce Harrell has conceded the election to now mayor-elect Katie Wilson. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Mayor Bruce Harrell says he's spoken to "mayor-elect Wilson" to congratulate her and wish her well