West Seattle Blog… | ELECTION RESULTS: Local races – Seattle City Council Position 8, State House District 34

Derek November 5, 2024 (8:15 pm)

This is destruction. Let this be a warning to Bruce and Saka and Nelson.

Spooled November 5, 2024 (9:51 pm)

Yay Trump. Come fulfill campaign promises and end the crime, drugs, homelessness.
- Derek November 5, 2024 (10:17 pm)
  
  I’m talking about local races and Rinck
  - Alki resident November 6, 2024 (6:38 am)
    
    Spooled is talking about Trumps promise to end sanctuary cities. It’s a great start. Ferguson has nothing to do with fighting crime.
    - Johnny Stulic November 6, 2024 (8:33 am)
      
      ??? I realize most of Trump supporters are completely delusional about pretty much anything, but the amount of logic twisting in order to connect the concept of sanctuary cities with crime and drugs is astounding. Eventually, when the dust is settled, TFG administration will have done for any city and their crime/drugs/homelessness problem the same what they did with the “build the wall” promise: nothing. Meanwhile, posts like these are a great indicator of his voters’ motives, where everything and anything detrimental in this country is caused by Mex… pardon me, illegal immigrants. But sure, the primary concern of those voters according to themselves was economy, LOL.
    - K November 6, 2024 (8:57 am)
      
      No one that voted for the rapist and convicted felon has any room to complain about enabling criminals. Y’all need to sit the next four years out. Minimum.
- Derp November 6, 2024 (12:26 am)
  
  Haha, you really believe that. Too much koolaid
- Juanito November 6, 2024 (8:31 am)
  
  I expect to be shot by a Republican from Spokane after Trump is inaugurated in January. Every non-Republican in the State of Washington is in danger. God Bless Donald Trump!
Sixbuck November 6, 2024 (12:38 am)

Destruction is what the progressives have wrought upon this region for at least my lifetime. I understand my neighbors desire more destruction. San Francisco, hold my beer!
- K November 6, 2024 (10:55 am)
  
  You need to get out more if Seattle/Western Washington is your idea of a “destroyed” region, lol

Rhonda November 5, 2024 (11:20 pm)

Common sense nationwide, madness in Washington State.

Mr J November 6, 2024 (12:07 am)

Voting against your own best interest isn’t common sense. But go off Rhonda you usually do.
- sixbuck November 6, 2024 (1:28 am)
  
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  - Born & raised November 7, 2024 (2:23 pm)
    
    Hi Brett!
  - Born & Raised November 7, 2024 (2:58 pm)
    
    Hi BF!
- Thankyou November 6, 2024 (10:56 am)
  
  Oh Mr. J, thank you for that laugh 🫶
Pete November 6, 2024 (2:23 am)

Looks like the rapist won. Yikes.
- anonyme November 6, 2024 (9:33 am)
  
  Exactly. When a rapist tells you he will “protect you, whether you like it or not” – run. While I agree that liberal local politics has caused a lot of harm, electing a career criminal and fascist to the most powerful office in the land is not a solution. Say goodbye to the last, slim hope that climate change can be reversed, or even slowed. It will now accelerate mass extinction, including that of the human race, and regardless of political affiliation. No rapture for Republicans only.
  - Monica Walters-Perez November 6, 2024 (1:52 pm)
    
    Unsure what you mean by the last line in your comment…otherwise, yes you are correct, unfortunately. When we’re seen as numbers by our leaders instead of as people, it’s never been good historically. Add to that a Criminal Disregard for the Natural World & Obse$$ion with Profit and it seems practically guaranteed. You know I don’t think the beautiful waterways turned toxic nor the luscious valleys turned food deserts due to unscrupulous use were caused by leaders who truly had their followers’ very best interests in mind. It’s something to reflect on.
K November 6, 2024 (4:42 am)

Now every felon in America knows that they, too, can be President. The fact that police backed the criminal over the prosecutor tells you all you need to know. They don’t care about law and order, they care about power.
- Wilhoit November 6, 2024 (8:34 am)
  
  “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Bbron November 6, 2024 (5:49 am)

“common sense” to elect Trump? I think you meant “zero sense”.
Reed November 6, 2024 (7:23 am)

Congrats Rhonda, you just made yourself a second class citizen. I hope you enjoy the misogyny coming your way.
- Rhonda November 6, 2024 (10:55 am)
  
  Reed, Biden/Harris were making us a second-class country and the shiny-new GOP Senate and White House will make us a first-class Nation again. I’m going to eat a donut and watch Harris concede, so have a nice day ☀️
  - Sarge November 6, 2024 (12:33 pm)
    
    Explain how, please – we are clearly not looking at the same calculus here Rhonda. How exactly is Trump going to make us “first class”? By denying science? Bullying former allies? Stoking disorder and polarization across the nation? I could go on, but please, do explain…
    - K November 6, 2024 (4:01 pm)
      
      Rhonda can’t. She needs to say something to justify supporting a racist criminal, even if what she’s saying isn’t true. We became the laughingstock of the developed world when Trump was elected the first time. No president has done more to damage relationships with longtime friends of the USA than Trump.
Derp November 6, 2024 (10:17 am)

“Protector of woman” Far from common sense, even for you.

Mcat November 5, 2024 (11:21 pm)

I’m so excited for Alexis! We need more progressives on council and we will vote them in next year.

Arbor Heights Resident November 6, 2024 (8:15 am)

I’m glad to live in one of the few places in this country that hasn’t completely lost its mind. Local results are looking really good.

disagree November 6, 2024 (10:00 am)

Funny, I feel the exact opposite. It’s crazy-town here compared to most of the country! But it’s so pretty and such great outdoor opportunities. Just have to endure the political madness. Y’all people have lost your minds.
- Jason November 6, 2024 (10:41 am)
  
  @Disagree Wait the candidate that wants to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, rollback trans rights, fire every gov. agency person he doesn’t like, kill the public school system, jump around like a dork with Elon Musk, and rollback women’s rights is the “sane” one to you? Sure. Okay. (Jennifer Lawrence React.gif). You are screaming into a void. DJT lost voters, despite Kamala being a terrible candidate.
- Arbor Heights Resident November 6, 2024 (1:05 pm)
  
  Crazy town is voting against someone who tried to overthrow the government? Yeah, okay.

Jason November 6, 2024 (8:44 am)

Alexis Mercedes Rinck is a QUEEN. I am so glad progressives won here locally. Imagine if the dems had any spine and gave us a single progressive promise. Maybe they would have won nationally…

K. Davis November 6, 2024 (11:10 am)

Good point. If only Kamala and the national D’s were even more liberal, then all those people who voted Trump would have switched and voted blue. That makes sense.
- Jason November 6, 2024 (11:39 am)
  
  @KDavis, it does make sense, look at the results with progressive policies in Trump won states. Start with MO and AZ. If Kamala hung onto student loan forgiveness instead of crap like fracking and border walls, she would have won the progressive left base, which she handedly lost to the Tik Tok youth. The youth would have sided with her, as they always do, if she supported it and did so from the jump. The leftist youth went apathy with no voting or went third party. Kamala can only blame herself. No spine. It’s Hillary Clinton playbook all over again. The dems love to lose.
  - Sarge November 6, 2024 (12:37 pm)
    
    Where are you getting the idea that apathy of the “progressive leftist youth” are the reason dems lost in swing states? Until you show me a number I’m with K. Davis on this one…
    - Jason November 6, 2024 (12:55 pm)
      
      But what KDavis said isn’t backed up by numbers. Kamala doesn’t stand on really any progressive policy. Only centrist war hawk policies, right wing border and school policies. No student loan or debt forgiveness. Her most progressive policy was standing moot on climate and trans rights. That’s it. Not even helping them or women’s rights. https://apnews.com/article/ap-votecast-trump-harris-election-president-voters-86225516e8424431ab1d19e57a74f198 This article shows you the numbers. The youth vote was cut in half from 2020. The mere comparison of 2020 vs. 2024 total counts points to apathy. Less voters = apathetic voters. Nevermind also that progressive policies, as I said, WON in Trump-elected states.
    - Sarge November 6, 2024 (2:55 pm)
      
      @ Jason, I only see % for Harris vs Trump in that article, not total counts. I can’t tell from that which policy brought out the vote (or didnt) among various groups. I cant see how going further left would have helped her since that makes up a smaller bloc of the overall democrat bloc, whereas appealing to centrists is a larger bloc especially in swing states.
    - Derek November 6, 2024 (4:35 pm)
      
      Sarge, Got any proof appealing to centrists helps her gain votes in swing states because uh, that didn’t happen
- Derek November 6, 2024 (4:41 pm)
  
  K. Davis, most of the people who worked on the Bernie campaign or who were progressive have been ostracized by Democratic Party operatives, shadowbanned by elite media, and vilified by legions of MSNBC addicts. And now *gestures wildly at the wreckage* here we are.

Good Morning! November 6, 2024 (9:12 am)

Congrats! WSB keyboard warriors just earned 4 more years to blame bad progressive policies on DJT!

Jason November 6, 2024 (9:50 am)

What policies are bad? You mean all the ones that won OVERWHELMINGLY. Seems the people WANT these policies…so… let’s GO! Shaun Scott won his WA State district by 67%. This is a dramatic SHIFT from Sara Nelson/Ann Davison/Bruce Harrell faction. We are BACK baby. (locally at least)

Admiral-2009 November 6, 2024 (9:21 am)

Jason – Biden won 4 years ago because of his moderate history, he moved way to the left and Kamala is way to the left. This is the result. I do not like Trump at all, but I am with the majority, not the Seattle bubble, that do not like the far left policies!

Jason November 6, 2024 (10:44 am)

There is nothing “Way to the left” with Kamala. She was literally parading around Dick Cheney and Karl Rove–right wing war hawks we all once hated. You don’t live in reality if you truly think that. Biden won with old guard fanfare. The data shows the youth men going Trump and the middle 30-40 demo as apathetic and not voting. Kamala didn’t stand for a single progressive breadcrumb. Biden at least pretended to be for student loan forgiveness. Kamala was pro fracking, pro private schools, pro border wall. What about any of that is LEFT WING? Kamala was George Bush level and we knew that with her history as a prosecutor and being anti-poverty in San Francisco. Nationally speaking, many actually voted for progressive abortion policies AND Trump. Look at Missouri and Arizona passing progressive policies. That shows that Kamala didn’t stand for anything…and if she did she would have won.
- Scarlett November 6, 2024 (12:26 pm)
  
  Bingo.
- Larch November 6, 2024 (12:39 pm)
  
  Nevermind her policies, she’s a brown woman from a blue state, so perhaps that’s already too far left for most of the country…
  - What do I know November 6, 2024 (2:37 pm)
    
    I suspect for some men, the single problem for Harris was that she was a woman. Some men still believe only men should be in charge and women couldn’t possibly have the skills to run to country.
    - CAM November 6, 2024 (3:24 pm)
      
      Let’s not pull our punches here. It’s also a problem that she wasn’t white. And there are PLENTY of women in this country who would never vote for a woman to be president. Exit polls do not support the idea that Kamala lost because of men.

anonyme November 6, 2024 (9:24 am)

I think author Philip Pullman said it best: “Goodbye America. It was nice knowing you.”

Penpal November 6, 2024 (9:52 am)

God bless America! The Republic will endure.

CAM November 7, 2024 (12:28 am)

But not all the people that it’s meant to protect.

Seattle Bites November 6, 2024 (9:56 am)

Why does Seattle love to pay taxes So much? I cannot afford the democratic party. Y’all making me broke!

jj November 6, 2024 (1:03 pm)

Before you know it, a person making 25/hr at 40 hours a week is going to have a paycheck of about 15 bucks after taxes.
- Derek November 6, 2024 (4:37 pm)
  
  These are not income taxes… these only affect property owners and should barely go up more than $20 a month over a year, for most in town. I guess if you’re uber rich you can complain. If landlords are snippy and want to pass this to you then try to move asap
Mel November 7, 2024 (6:41 am)

I agree. As a middle income family of 4 these local tax increases hurt. Do people not understand they keep complaining about how expensive it is to live here, and then turn around and vote for more taxes? I don’t get it.

Scarlett November 6, 2024 (11:31 am)

It’s an uniparty oligarchy and this is simply rearranging the deck chairs. When you’re finished with the crocodile tears over national results, fashionable progressives, go back to calculating your stock market bounce today along with the bootstrap Republicans.

Where's the Logic November 6, 2024 (12:51 pm)

“It’s the economy, stupid.” The party stuck with a lousy economy has a history of not getting re-elected. Biden had to deal with a global recession and now prices are higher, as they are globally. Then, during the election campaign people were asked, are you better off today than four years ago? A tough hill to climb for Harris, easier for Trump.

Scarlett November 6, 2024 (1:25 pm)

Democrats have been moving from New Deal Democrats to corporate Democrats for decades. Yes, Harris had a few nice policy proposals but in the end it was far too little too late. Her campaign also made the baffling and fatal mistake of hugging war criminals and surrounding themselves with shiny celebrities. There is no point speculating on the future but Trump is 78 and an ambitious chameleon Vance is waiting in the wings, and he might be an even more of a Kingfisher-type demagogue than Trump.

Monica Walters-Perez November 6, 2024 (2:07 pm)

I know right?!.. Everything you just said!!Btw who caught Cardi B endorsing Harris I can’t I just can’t like in what world do I live in? I’d be sooo embarrassed to be a Dem ayayay just nope!

Cashew November 6, 2024 (6:58 pm)

“Us Democrats have become the party of elitists. That’s why we lost last night” – former Senator Claire McCaskil D-Mo

CAM November 6, 2024 (8:19 pm)

That’s fine. I’ve disagreed with McCaskill since before she lost her seat in the Senate when she ran so far to the center she was practically endorsing conservative policies. She’s had the same speech every time she’s on TV since then. Missouri is not the state by which to judge how the Democratic party should set it’s core beliefs.
- Cashew November 6, 2024 (8:51 pm)
  
  So, CAM, you want us to continue to lose national elections and core constituencies?
  - CAM November 7, 2024 (12:22 am)
    
    You think Kamala lost this election because of policies? She lost because of sexism and racism and bald faced lies. People that voted for that guy believed 100% fictional stories about why they were personally in jeopardy of being murdered tomorrow. You can’t fight that. Particularly not if a large portion of this country still thinks women are inferior/incapable of being in charge. Or more likely, so misogynistic they can’t stand the idea that a woman would have the power to tell them what to do.
    
    And to add to that, as a strong progressive, Kamala is not a progressive. She ran to the center with financial policy, foreign policy, and crime. If you think that she is progressive I’m terrified of what you think would actually be unacceptably conservative for a democratic candidate.
    - Atheist November 7, 2024 (6:55 am)
      
      Thank you Cam. Well summarized!

M November 6, 2024 (7:25 pm)

Thrilled how the local and state races are turning out! Let’s keep supporting each other and working hard toward equity.

Admiral-2009 November 6, 2024 (9:08 pm)

Jason – a woman’s right to choose is Libertarian Issue, not a progressive one.

Arbor Heights Resident November 6, 2024 (10:47 pm)

It’s both.
CAM November 7, 2024 (12:31 am)

A woman’s right to bodily autonomy is not a political issue to be tossed around by any party. The only people who think it is don’t believe a woman has bodily autonomy.
- Ivan Weiss November 7, 2024 (7:26 am)
  
  What Cam said.

Scarlett November 7, 2024 (8:58 am)

I think that sexism and racism is a much smaller part of the fact that people want a “strongman,” or even a “strongwoman.” Look at the Republican adoration of a Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady. Republicans would have been tripping over each in a rush to endorse warmonger Hillary Clinton if she had a “R” before her name, or a Condi Rice, for that matter. People crave authority on both sides of the political spectrum and it gave Dems excited goosebumps when Biden walked out to a macabre blood red setting to call fellow Americans “enemies within.” This is the base nature of Homo Sapien, a species directed by the ancient brainstem. Maybe it’s time to let A.I. have a go at it.

TP November 8, 2024 (7:27 am)

At this point, I’m looking forward to the harm that will come to red states through the environmental, health, educational and economic policies that the Trump administration and its state followers will enact. I’m thankful every day we live in a state with rationale thought and that we have the resources to buffer ourselves from the stupidity that is inbound.

Kathy November 8, 2024 (10:08 am)

We rightly condemn polititians who threaten actions against people in blue states. I hope you are not serious in looking forward to harm to people in red states. We shouldn’t forget this is about people, not team red and team blue.
- TP November 8, 2024 (11:16 am)
  
  Kathy the people in red states that vote for politicians who promise less regulation, dismantling of the public school system, and taxes cuts that only benefit the wealthy need to reap what they sow. I’m tired of feeling bad for them, it’s time they feel the impacts of their choices.
  - CAM November 8, 2024 (6:43 pm)
    
    Any decrease in quality of education or healthcare will only lead to further difficulties electing quality candidates in the future. You want people to be easily misled by lies and propaganda? You want people to be so impoverished that they have no time or mental space to consider what candidates are telling them?
    - TP November 9, 2024 (8:59 am)
      
      CAM I grew up in Boone county, KY, probably the most conservative place in the country. People there are not mislead by propaganda; it’s willful ignorance because they are one issue voters (guns, abortion, immigration[racism], etc.). Again, I’m tired of feeling bad for them when they knowingly vote against their own best interests. I’m ready to play the long game on this. Despite the racist and misogynistic policies that will come out of the Trump admin and a republican-controlled congress, women and minorities will overcome what is thrown at them and continue to surpass the ignorant red neck white male in every category of growth, and I cannot wait to watch it.

Jason November 8, 2024 (8:35 am)

Bottom line: Kamala lost because she lost progressives. The data is very, very clear there. Conservatives would vote Condi Rice, like someone said above, it doesn’t matter, it is not sexism or racism (not in massive numbers or any data point). They have a spine and stand on their principles, democrats hate progressives and keep losing their base. They wanted Bush and Cheney endorsements rather than anyone to in the Sanders wing of the party base. They also have no populism going on. No one wanted Kamala… next time PRIMARY the candidate when your current figurehead is near senile. They deserve this loss. Both parties lost voters to apathy, democrats by a WIDE margin.

CAM November 8, 2024 (6:39 pm)

Jason – I am a progressive voter and did not vote for either Biden or Clinton in their respective primaries. The Democratic candidate for president has had my vote no matter what even when my preferred candidate didn’t win. It’s time to stop coddling democrats with this concept that they only need to support candidates that they are fully in support of. In every election I have had the opportunity to vote in, save 1, I have voted for the candidate that is the closest match to my values. Because the damage done in that 4 years by the other party winning is less important than my pride.

As to your belief that the voters of the US aren’t sexist or racist, talk to me again when we have successfully elected a female head of state. We are among the last in the world to have not done so. We’ve had 2 opportunities to do so and have not succeeded in either attempt. In between those two candidates, we elected a white elderly male. We have now elected another white elderly male who has been impeached twice and currently faces numerous federal criminal trials based on the events of his last term in office and his behavior after leaving office. Women in this country, and especially BIPOC women, have to do everything perfectly and better than men to even be considered competent. Shortly after the current white elderly male was elected a second time racists were running out there with signs and cheering their victory. Here’s one example. https://apnews.com/article/racist-text-messages-slavery-investigations-election-efc248569cb48e056931ed3e8470ae65

Electing a single black man as president does not mean that the voters of this country are not influenced by racism. Kamala losing on Tuesday has nothing to do with policies she put forward and your insistence that her policies were an excuse for liberal voters to vote for the other candidate or not to vote at all is merely about your own biases rather than reality.

Scarlett November 8, 2024 (10:13 am)

I wonder how many indignant, mortified “progressives” revisited their portfolio’s after the election and sold off TESLA, or AMZN? The answer is, of course, zero. Just as Republicans have no qualms about accepting gov’t largesse when it’s directed their way, same for progressives when comes it down to their pocketbooks or their principles. For those taking comfort that Washington State bucked the trend, and is some progressive utopia, the truth is Washington, particularly the Puget Sound is wealthy, and insulated by companies like Amazon, Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies. Its easy to be “progressive” and spread the breadcrumbs around locally when you’re extracting your “pound of flesh” to quote the bard, elswhere. Talk is really, really cheap.