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Update - The council member, Cathy Moore, who proposed kneecapping our ethics code suddenly withdrew the bill earlier this week.

Avoid a likely raucous showdown in city hall next week.

It seems that the optics of deleting the conflict of interest parts of the ethics code is pretty unpopular.

So unpopular Bruce Harrell even threatened to veto it. It's likely Cathy Moore believed she couldn't get a veto proof majority so gave up.

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It's a never ending gaslight fest.

The fash say that because their event closed early its a sign of religious persecution at the hands of Mayor Harrell.

Bruce on the other hand bulldozed a protest garden (#BLMG) precisely to enable events. The largest of which has been the fascist MaydayUSA tour (now planning an encoure).

Bruce asked them to wrap up a smidgen early and now both wants to claim that as a victory.

Seattle's Mayor Bruce Harrell increased the police budget by $100 Million dollars last year to hire more cops.

The numbers just came in. The spending spree netted only one new cop in 2024!

And if you count the firing of Kevin Dave in the 1st week of Janurary the total is zero net new cops in 2024.

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I've been heartened to see activist friends starting a similar program in my neighborhood in the past year and a half and was extremely proud to be the first fridge in the network.

Like Fred's example it's grown by leaps in this time.

But you know what? The state oppression has been REAL.

The Mayor of Seattle personally ordered over $89k in destruction to put a stop to our meal services and other community outreach programs!

realchangenews.org/news/2024/0