The day after Seattle voters approved a social housing funding proposition that Mayor Bruce Harrell loudly opposed, Harrell said he was still baffled by why the city wants dedicated affordable housing funds he can’t steal from and give to cops.
“I just thought we were all clear that the type of ‘affordable housing funds’ we were into in this city are the JumpStart kind that I can ransack at-will to fund 23% retroactive raises, giant bonuses and violent crowd control weapons for the Seattle Police Department, just like I did last year,” said Harrell. “I just wish I had done a better job of communicating that if you pass Prop 1A, I’m not going to be able to use those funds to restock SPD’s supply of tear gas, blast balls and pepper spray, all of which the Seattle City Council just reauthorized the use of on protesters to expand SPD’s right to freedom of violent expression.”
Mayor Harrell, who is seeking re-election later this year, had supported the alternate social housing option of Prop 1B, which raised no funds for its development.
“It would have been so much smarter and more financially responsible if social housing could only be built with city funds that I can place ridiculous conditions on for social housing developers to access,” Harrell said. “And if the funds wound up just sitting there un-used because of that, then it would only make sense to instead blow it on a few sorely needed surveillance Cybertrucks for SPD.”
At press time, Harrell confirmed he was also perplexed by the approved school levies and the idea that people still want to fund public education instead of more public surveillance technology.
