After putting a lot of thought into who we want to endorse for mayor, we here at Transportation for Washington are confident a man who once pointed a gun at a pregnant woman over a “stolen” parking spot is the transit hero Seattle needs.
Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proven passion for parking spaces shows just how much he wants and needs everyone else to be taking public transit to ensure maximum instant parking space availability for himself. As Mayor Harrell once told police in Iowa, he never wanted to pull a gun out on anyone—but if parking spots are limited and there’s enough Hispanics in the car taking his spot, he’s obviously gotta do what he’s gotta do.
That includes, but is not limited to, making up fan-fic tales to reporters about how he’s ever apologized or made amends with the woman and her family members he physically threatened. As Mayor Harrell once said, “I could threaten to shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Oh wait—that wasn’t him, that was … nevermind.
What we know for sure is if he did, he wouldn’t be losing any endorsement from us, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, King County Councilmembers Claudia Balducci and Rod Dembowski and, wow, a lot of people.
At the end of the day, he’s much more than just a guy who brandished a gun at people over a parking space and then keeps lying about what happened to this very day. He’s the champion of a watered-down transit levy, Ballard light rail line delays, and putting a dead-end light rail station under I-90 instead of anywhere it would make sense for anyone who wants to transfer lines in the ID.
Please join us in supporting Bruce Harrell–not Katie Wilson, a co-founder of the Transit Riders Union who has a long record of also championing renters’ rights, raising the minimum wage, and affordable housing with no repeated record for inappropriately intimidating people—for mayor!
