Erica C. Barnett

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31 Ekim 2026 22:46

This Week on PubliCola: Sara Nelson’s Disappearing $30,000, Council Proposes Budget-Busting New Spending, KCRHA Explains $17 Million Gap And more stories—and podcasts!—you may have missed for the week of October 26.

Erica C. Barnett

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31 Ekim 2026 22:46

Just responded to a commenter who thinks that the fact that PubliCola reported on encampment sweeps increasing under Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson means that I now love sweeps, because I'm Wilson's bestie or something. For the record: Sweeps are bad, and also, I am a reporter who reports things.

Tech 4 Housing

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31 Ekim 2026 21:48

That type of conservative track record is very hard to defend, and more so in District races where doorknocking and tabling can scale to reach a decent percentage of the electorate.

Tech 4 Housing

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31 Ekim 2026 21:48

Once they get elected, voters realize that the candidate is enacting terrible policies (repeal minimum wage for tipped workers, criminalizing sex workers for existing in public, cutting funding for affordable me housing to give violent police officers raises, etc).

Tech 4 Housing

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31 Ekim 2026 21:48

… and use $$$$ on Super PAC mailers to make them competitive in the General.