Saturday, November 16, 2013

Seattle Elects Socialist Candidate to City Council

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Seattle voters have elected a socialist to city council for the first time in modern history.

Kshama Sawant's lead continued to grow on Friday, prompting 16-year incumbent Richard Conlin to concede.

Even in this liberal city, Sawant's win has surprised many here. Conlin was backed by the city's political establishment. On election night, she trailed by four percentage points. She wasn't a veteran politician, having only run in one previous campaign.

But in the days following election night, Sawant's share of the votes outgrew Conlin's.
"I don't think socialism makes most people in Seattle afraid," Conlin said Friday.

While city council races are technically non-partisan, Sawant made sure people knew she was running as a socialist — a label that would be politically poisonous in many parts of the country.

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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    Figures. Thank Goodness I'm moving out of this Commie state.
    Miss Violet

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  2. AnonymousNovember 16, 2013 at 8:18 PM

    Oh yes. We were ready to get the shop up and the electric in and then winter came and halted our party. ;) So we'll be ready to go first thing we can get into the place in the spring. We'll probably start moving in July, but we won't be able to move the little shed and the chicken coop (they are built on metal skids) until after the wheat harvest is done because we have to drive in the field to be able to wench them onto a trailer. This time next year I'll be an Idahoan, done deal. ;)
    Miss Violet

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  3. roger uNovember 16, 2013 at 8:33 PM

    Minneapolis has elected their first Somali to the city council He's been in the US all of 7 years.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 16, 2013 at 10:08 PM

    No, not St Maries. We are not city people. We have 20 acres in the foothills of the Bitterroot mountains, not too far from St Maries though.
    Miss Violet

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    1. Brock TownsendNovember 16, 2013 at 10:29 PM

      Checking out the map, I come up with 4 hours away. Is that correct or am I off?

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  5. angrymikeNovember 17, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    OK, from what I read it said the votes grew AFTER election night, so that means mail-in votes pushed her over the top? Hmmm, the easiest way for voter fraud. Wonder if it'll be a city that no one you talk to seamed to vote for her but she won anyway?????

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