Seattle’s next mayor is willing to meet with anyone, including Trump

Seattle’s next mayor is willing to meet with anyone, including Trump

SEATTLE — He hasn’t yet, but if President Donald Trump invited Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson to the White House, she would accept.She won’t say what she would tell him, but as she transitions from campaigning to governing, she’s made a pledge not to shut any doors.“I’ll meet with anyone,” she said from her new office in the Seattle Municipal Tower. “I mean, he’s the president of the United States.”Wilson says she’s a socialist who will come i…

Seattle's socialist mayor-elect Katie Wilson open to meeting with President Trump

Socialist Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson says she would meet with President Donald Trump at the White House, calling such meetings important to her success as mayor.

Here's who's on the rest of Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson's transition team

One week after Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson announced who’s leading her transition team – including two West Seattleites – she’s announced the rest of the team, and we recognize another West Seattleite (though we’re sure there are others – the list does not describe people beyond their current major organization/business/school/etc. affiliation). Here’s the full announcement: Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson today announced a 60-member transition team which…

Katie Wilson Charts New Course on Public Safety and Homelessness » The Urbanist

Now that its hard-fought mayoral race has concluded, Seattle is holding its breath to see how Mayor-elect Katie Wilson will govern. In late 2021, more conservative-leaning tough-on-crime politicians — Mayor Bruce Harrell, Councilmember Sara Nelson, and City Attorney Ann Davison — came to power in Seattle, riding a wave of backlash to the progressive response to the 2020 George Floyd protests against police violence and frustration with the Covid…