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KOMO News reported Friday, "Katie Wilson was inaugurated as Seattle's new mayor on Friday during a public ceremony at Seattle City Hall's first-floor lobby."
They continued, "The event marked the beginning of a new chapter for the city as Wilson took the oath of office and delivered her inaugural address."
The new socialist, community organizer promised, "This is your city, you belong here."
What will Seattle become? To those who have lived in Seattle, raised their children in Seattle, and built lifelong relationships in Seattle, will it really be "your city"?
Will the non-socialist, non-progressive population of the city actually "belong?"
84% of those polled have "deep concerns" according to KOMO News.
Be informed, not misled.
KOMO News reported that one of the several speakers at the inauguration declared, "Seattle is a city waiting to be born again."
KOMO says, "Wilson assumes leadership amid significant challenges, from homelessness and public safety concerns to economic headwinds and budget constraints. Seattle faces ongoing debates about how best to balance public investment, taxation, and service delivery as the city confronts both historic problems and emerging pressures."
And 84% who have "deep concerns" about the new mayor's abilities and agenda.
The New York Times quoted Wilson, “There was a time when we saw Seattle as kind of a laboratory for progressive policy,” Ms. Wilson said in an interview this fall. “And that time’s not now anymore. But why can’t it be?”
That gives some idea of where she wants to take Seattle.
Who is Katie Wilson?
The New York Times says this:
Ms. Wilson never ran for public office before, but she led a series of campaigns over the past decade to expand access to mass transit, raise local minimum wages, and add protections for renters — often through some form of taxing the rich.
“Grassroots organizing is about really hard, detailed, egoless work, just knocking on doors, making that next phone call, being willing to ask people for help, to help them even when you’re exhausted,” said Beth Bazley, chairwoman of the King County Democrats, which endorsed Ms. Wilson before her primary win. “Katie does not believe in hierarchy, as far as I can tell, just digging in and getting the work done.”
Like many of the millennial and Generation Z voters who backed her, Ms. Wilson is a renter and a transplant to Seattle. She grew up in Binghamton, N.Y., with academic parents, both evolutionary biologists. One of her grandfathers, Sloan Wilson, wrote “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” and other novels.
Always an activist on the left — she co-founded a chapter of the advocacy group Food Not Bombs in high school and met her future husband, Scott Myers, while serving free meals at an animal rights protest — she was six weeks from earning a degree in physics and philosophy when she chose a more bohemian life. Ms. Wilson and Mr. Myers rode a Greyhound across America and settled on Seattle in 2004 because, the story goes, the University of Washington offered the lowest price on library access for people not enrolled.
Fox News says, "A little more than a week after socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took the reins of the nation’s largest city, voters in Seattle elected a socialist that has been compared to Mamdani to lead the West Coast’s fifth-largest city by population."
"Like Mamdani," Fox says, "Wilson has faced criticism for past support of defunding the police, most notably through her support of a 'Solidarity Budget' which would have cut the Seattle police force by 50%."
"There’s a strong argument for simply disbanding police departments and starting over," Wilson wrote in a June 2020 op-ed.
Wilson, like Mamdani, has proposed policies like implementing government-run grocery stores. She pledged to explore government-backed grocery stores if elected this fall after accepting the endorsement from grocery workers union UFCW 3000, Washington’s largest private-sector union. New York voters, meanwhile, saw a similar pitch from Mamdani.
"Yes, Seattle voters want to tax the rich," Wilson wrote in February of this year, echoing a prominent socialist platform, championed by Mamdani, of increasing the tax burden on the wealthiest residents.
Is Katie qualified to be the mayor of Seattle?
Before establishing the Transit Riders Union in 2011, Wilson worked in several unrelated industries, including as a barista, boatyard worker, apartment manager, lab technician, baker, construction worker, and legal assistant.
Great choice, Seattle.
Who supported her election?
Several of the progressive activist groups and unions that backed Mamdani's campaign also endorsed Wilson, including the Working Families Party, Planned Parenthood affiliates, and SEIU affiliates.
Someone is pulling her strings behind the curtain.
Takeaway
"There is an awful lot that I want to accomplish as mayor," Wilson said in her first speech since clinching the mayor’s office. "I want everybody in this great city of ours to have a roof over their head. I want universal childcare and free K-8 summer care. I want world-class mass transit. I want great, safe public spaces where kids can run around with abandon. I want stable, affordable housing for renters."
"I want social housing. I want much more land and wealth to be owned and stewarded by communities instead of corporations. I want a robust economy, with thriving small businesses, great living wage jobs, and strong rights for workers. I want a city where everyone has the basics of a dignified life, including healthy food, access to healthcare, and support of communities. I want a city where your health and your life expectancy and your children's future don't depend on your zip code or your race."
Let me be frank. Socialism does not produce these kinds of results. Neither does big government.
Jesus taught capitalism, not socialism.
Jesus speaks about "talents" in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), a story about a master entrusting his property (talents, a large sum of money) to servants before a journey, expecting them to invest and multiply it; the faithful servants who doubled their portions were rewarded, while the one who buried his single talent was rebuked.
Katie's on the wrong side of biblical Truth.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
