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It looks like a good night for the moderates in Seattle, though the city’s vote-by-mail system means all the votes won’t be counted for several more days (because many were just dropped in the mail yesterday). In the past, progressives have tended to make up election-day deficits as large as 10-12 points as later vote tallies are added. That’s because older, more conservative voters tend to be overrepresented in the initial tally. But in this case the gaps are so large that overcoming them looks unlikely. ......... Bruce Harrell will succeed current Mayor Jenny Durkan who decided not to seek reelection last year in the wake of the CHAZ/CHOP disaster and battles with the City Council over the police budget. He defeated Lorena González ... a supporter of defunding the police by 50% though the actual cuts made by the Council last year only amounted to about 20 percent. Harrell, by contrast, does not support defunding. Both candidates support more efforts to deal with Seattle’s homelessness problem but Harrell made a point of saying ... that he doesn’t want to demonize residents who want parks and neighborhoods cleaned up because “they deserve that.”Next up, the result I was most excited about last night was the race for City Attorney. Outgoing City Attorney Pete Holmes was terrible at his job and the city clearly needed a fresh approach. The good news was that he came in third in the primary which meant he was not in the running for a 4th term. The bad news was that one of the candidates to replace him, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, was even more extreme that he was....As extreme as she was, Thomas-Kennedy had a real shot at winning the race, in part because local Democrats endorsed her and in part because her opponent Ann Davison was a Republican. Winning as a Republican in Seattle is not easy to do. Fortunately, Davison was endorsed by the Seattle Times and by former Washington Governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke. She promised to restore a sense of safety to the city if elected. And, as of now, it looks like she has pulled it off....The race could get very close, but with a 17% lead it looks likely Davison will be able to hang on.
