#bruce harrell

Here are our socialist candidates for Mayor, Ry Armstrong & Katie Wilson. Both interviews are better than anything I've seen in the papers (love you AJ) especially Ry Armstrong's which is so indepth and personal.

Please vote for one of these great candidates during our primary on August 5th and then again on November 4th during our general election.

Ry Armstrong's Website

Katie Wilson's Website

About our current Mayor:

Our current Mayor, Bruce Harrell has displaced more people without houses than any Mayor before him at least postdating 2008.

Infographics from @ stopthesweepsseattle on Instagram (more info about their stats and work if you go to the links in their bio! You should give 'em a follow as well if you want to know more about how Seattle government is mistreating people without houses)

He has also done close to jackshit in office, and is absolutely sucking the Seattle Police Departments dick.

Who else is getting those ads trying to make the SPD seem kind and heroic instead of notoriously violent and often times just straight up evil?

Those ads are paid for and endorced by Bruce Harrell. He's using your tax payer dollars to try to make the SPD seem harmless while doing absolutely nothing to actually make them less shit.

We would need a new Mayor in the best of times, but since we're living in the worst of times WE CANNOT LET THIS MAN CONTINUE TO BE MAYOR!

He will not protect our vulnerable people from the Trump administration. He will continue to do whatever he's paid off to do (remember he's from the city council originally. The notoriously corrupt city council.) we cannot trust him to protect us and get us through it all, let alone improve our city and set a precedent for other cities across the country.

We could have our own Zohran Mamdani in Armstrong or Wilson.

BUT WE NEED TO GET OUT AND VOTE IF WE WANT THAT FUTURE!

The more major cities can gather support behind ACTUALLY progressive candidates the more power we have against the fascists in control.

If we want to not just save our country but also make it actually better, we must work together.

By Erica C. Barnett

When he ran for mayor in 2021, Bruce Harrell vowed to implement key elements of the Compassion Seattle ballot measure, an initiative that would have required the city to create  a total of 2,000 new “units (in addition to those already funded) of emergency or permanent housing with services.” If the measure had passed, Harrell, who supported it, would have been responsible for making the 2,000 new units happen.

After a state appeals court took Compassion Seattle off the table, candidate Harrell wasted no time in urging the city council to adopt key elements of the measure, saying that “the amendment-specified 2000 units of housing is critical to set in motion now.” He also rolled out a “homelessness action plan” that incorporated the 2,000-unit promise, and added that, if elected, he would “identify and begin the process of moving people into 1,000 units of housing within the first 6 months of taking office, and securing an additional 1,000 units by the end of year one.”

Media outlets reported widely on this bold campaign promise, and the Seattle Times mentioned it as one of their reasons for endorsing Harrell. He even hired Compassion Seattle’s chief architect, former city council member Tim Burgess, as a top policy advisor. So in his first year as mayor, did Harrell deliver? In a word, no. In a few words, not even close.

In 2022, Harrell did not deliver 2,000 new units of housing, even using the most generous interpretation of that campaign promise.  A detailed look at the 31 developments the administration says it “identified” this year shows that the vast majority were planned and funded before Harrell even took office, including many that former mayor Jenny Durkan hyped with media events and press announcements during her term. In fact, Durkan took credit for many of the exact same units the Harrell administration is counting toward their total.

And indeed, over the last year, the mayor has suggested that he merely promised to identify 2,000 housing and shelter units, not create 2,000 new ones. As the dashboard puts it: “We have identified 1,912 total units of shelter so far, with only 88 units left to reach our goal of 2,000 units of shelter and housing identified by end of 2022.” Even by this measure, however, the Harrell Administration can’t claim success.