Jayapal to Announce She’s Running for Jim McDermott’s Seat Jayapal, 49, is a fascinating candidate: She doesn’t live in McDermott’s district. She comes to politics from the corporate world, having worked on Wall Street. As an Indian and an immigrant, she is likely to identify with many of [...]
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January 21st, 2016 - 1:26 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Jayapal runs for McDermott’s Seat, Sawant out!
January 6th, 2016 - 7:17 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: Sawant, as predicted, is mulling her chances to run for the MickeyD seat!
As predicted on TA. Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a self described Troskyist Socialist, has begun mooting her candidacy for Congress. She does not currently live within the 7th District, but at least acc. to the Seattle Times) congressional candidates are not required to live in the d[...]
December 8th, 2015 - 9:02 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene
David Preston: Is Kshama Sawant in an Inappropriate Relationship?
Read this story and decide for yourself. [...]
November 25th, 2015 - 9:55 am § in Misc.
Sawantism: Sawant loses bid for parental leave
Council Passes Budget After Fight Over Paid Parental Leave | Seattle Politics Sawant spars with rest of council over parental leave funding in final budget vote. SEATTLEMET.COM I support leave BUT …as usual .., Sawant is all about show. Leave needs to consider fairness to non parents, t[...]
November 24th, 2015 - 1:16 am § in Misc.
Sawant and Hypocrisy
Sawant: Seattle must stand up to wave of bigotry by Kshama Sawant – at the Seattle Globalist Nov 20, 2015 Seattle City Councilmeber Kshama Sawant. (Photo via City of Seattle.) We have all watched in horror the tragedy that took place in Paris, and our hearts go out to the victims and t[...]
November 14th, 2015 - 3:10 pm § in Misc.
David Preston on Sawantism: Packing Meetings
David Preston On Perversions of Democracy David Preston On the national stage, Republicans are playing a role that’s analogous to what radicals like Kshama Sawant are doing in Seattle. Even when they don’t win elections, they’re still able to shift the debate. Here’s the res[...]
November 10th, 2015 - 12:21 pm § in Misc.
On Facebook, David Brewster predicts that Sawant and Sawantism will now wane in Seattle.
I think David is naive, Her popularity may wane but it is likely not important because the underlying issue is not Sawant as Savant, policy, it is power. SEIU is trying to establish itself as a big player in Seattle’s power structure. Here is what I expect to happen: SEIU/SA mo[...]
November 7th, 2015 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
David Brewster: Is Sawant Running For Jim’s Seat?
David Brewster : Josh Feit of Publicola has an important take on the election: Sawant won re-election but lost the election. She proved to have few coattails for other candidates and may find she has only one real ally among the 9 councilmembers, namely Mike O’Brien. This outcome reminds me[...]
Sawant Will Not Confirm or Deny
With Congressman Jim McDermott announcing his retirement there has been speculation that Socialist and Trotskyist (the difference between a Trotskyist and Trotskyite a pparently is Trotskyists ignore 90 percent of what Leon Trotsky actually did and said so they can imagine a competent and fluffy m[...]