26 Replies to "ELECTION 2025: Your ballot's on the way. Here are the decisions you'll be asked to make"

• K October 15, 2025 (3:45 pm)

  The White Center Library drop box has moved to Steve Cox Memorial Park.

  • WSB October 18, 2025 (7:44 pm)

    Unannounced (unless it was in a corner of ever-algorithmic social media somewhere). Thanks! Will go look for it for a pic tomorrow.

• DC October 15, 2025 (4:28 pm)

  Haven’t been this excited to vote in a long time. If you want a more affordable, livable, and accessible Seattle, vote Katie Wilson for mayor! A leader who puts results above ego, who stands up to power/wealth and fights for the people, someone who truly loves this city and wants to see it succeed.

  • Seattlite October 15, 2025 (6:54 pm)

    Wilson is a progressive community organizer.  She has never held public office.  Based on her bio, it is a BIG NO vote.

    • DC October 15, 2025 (9:09 pm)

      Right, the woman who successfully organizes communities to push through progressive change that has meaningfully improved peoples’ lives around the region is not the answer. Better stick with the blustering ‘I alone can fix it’ man who will run the city like a business. 

  • Pete October 15, 2025 (7:27 pm)

    DC…..has some ideas but no clue as to how to implement or pay for them. 

    • K October 15, 2025 (8:24 pm)

      Harrell has no ideas, he literally said now is not the time for hope, and it’s hard to tell what he does know about how to implement or pay for things because we haven’t seen him DO anything all these years.  No one has been a worse steward of your tax dollars than Harrell.  Inexperience is an improvement over an empty suit.

    • Adam October 16, 2025 (10:46 am)

      Katie Wilson’s approach seems different but definitely sober and informed. I think this article from Geekwire in September offers some tech and business-dector board strokes of her view on Seattle’s economy and funding: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle-mayoral-front-runner-katie-wilson-on-taxes-tech-sector-and-working-with-amazon/

  • Dave October 15, 2025 (7:44 pm)

    There’s nothing quite like a blank canvas for projecting all our hopes and dreams.

    • anonyme October 16, 2025 (6:51 am)

      Thanks, Dave.  Nicely put.

    • K October 16, 2025 (2:01 pm)

      Comments like this read so much like the “she’s just a bartender” narratives when AOC first ran for congress.  When you ignore all of someone’s achievements and qualifications, it’s easy to think of them as unaccomplished and unqualified.  

    • Nolan October 17, 2025 (12:52 pm)

      Agreed. Harrell’s entire platform has been to say as little as possible and to have low-information voters project their biases into the missing space.

      Voting for blank canvases has gotten us to our current crisis point, which is why Wilson’s years of grassroots organizing and policy victories have solidly earned my vote.

  • 1994 October 15, 2025 (8:34 pm)

    How is a mayor to make Seattle more affordable? I don’t believe that is possible. Besides, Katie Wilson advocated for raising taxes to support Metro bus service. Nothing makes sense like taxing poor people to help other poor people. 

    • Hope That Helps October 16, 2025 (7:51 am)

      Leaving aside your false idea that poor people are the only ones benefitting from public transportation…whenever anyone talks about using tax dollars to fund things, why do so many think it’s the poorest people that will be taxed and not the ultra-rich money hoarders? The poor don’t have the kind of money to it takes to fund services, but you know who does? And wouldn’t affect the vast majority of us in the slightest because we’re not that kind of rich.

    • IDC9 October 16, 2025 (10:59 am)

      Does she want to raise taxes for all Seattle residents to pay for Metro bus service, or just some residents (i.e. higher income residents)?

  • Htb October 16, 2025 (11:13 am)

    Serious question- if the companies she is proposing to tax to pay for these services all leave for Bellevue, how does that help anyone?

• I love WSB October 15, 2025 (6:56 pm)

  This is fantastic to lay out links to candidates this way. The more informed and educated the populace, the better the decision making 

• Oakley34 October 15, 2025 (9:57 pm)

  Here’s to hoping I actually receive mine this time!

  • Jim October 16, 2025 (12:43 am)

    Have you had issues before?

• Jim October 16, 2025 (12:42 am)

  Vote no on anything asking for money

• Al King October 16, 2025 (11:35 am)

  My Alki carrier delivered ballots today.

• Admiral2009 October 16, 2025 (1:19 pm)

  The City has a competent/experienced Mayor that has lived in Seattle his whole life and things are getting better.  Now it’s not the time to take a HUGE risk with Katie who simply does not have the experience for this important job!  You do not see the Mariners bring in a inexperienced pitcher to pitch in tonight’s game!

  • Nolan October 17, 2025 (12:55 pm)

    Do you know that playing baseball is different from being a mayor?

• Bradley October 16, 2025 (1:45 pm)

  Katie Wilson is Sawant 2.0. Hard pass. Seattle residents deserve better. 

  • k October 16, 2025 (4:54 pm)

    Someone read Bruce’s campaign flyers and knows nothing about either Sawant OR Wilson!  The Harrell campaign thanks you.  Lies work!  Money well spent.

  • Derek October 17, 2025 (1:52 pm)

    This gaslight won’t work. I will be voting for Katie to offset you! Bruce keeps failing upward and it comes to an end soon! We deserve better than Bruce, and Katie is a step towards that.

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