Judge rules enough charges against socialist Seattle city council member for recall efforts to proce

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Judge rules enough charges against socialist Seattle city council member for recall efforts to proceed
September 17, 2020 | Frieda Powers

A Seattle judge has given the green light for a recall petition seeking to remove a self-proclaimed socialist member of the city council to proceed in court.

King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers ruled Tuesday that the process may move forward to remove Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant from office, according to The Seattle Times. Four of the six charges brought against Sawant were determined by Rogers to have met the standard allowing the recall process to proceed.

The far-left socialist member of the city council, who has openly vowed to replace capitalism with socialism, is facing the recall effort by a group of Seattle residents who alleged six violations by Sawant that violated her oath of office.

Sawant, who was born in India and is a member of Socialist Alternative, has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. This year, amid all of the Black Lives Matter protests and unrest, she allegedly helped activists in several instances, including speaking at a protest in front of Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house and using her passkey to let demonstrators into City Hall in a nighttime protest in June.

“The petitioner has shown actual knowledge of facts indicating that the Councilmember intended to commit an unlawful act,” Rogers wrote in his order.

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[Wingnut]

The mayor and the entire City Council is a den of weasels and anti-american scum.  They all should be run out of town on a rail.

[Fishrrman]

This woman Sawant probably has a 50-50 chance of retaining her seat, but it doesn't really matter -- she's likely to be "replaced" with someone as far-to-the-left as she is now.

Or... even further.

Seattle is fast becoming a city where the only way to save it is to...
(you can fill in the rest)

[PeteS in CA]

She appealed the decision and:

Pass The Popcorn: WA Supreme Court Unanimously OK’s Recall Campaign Against Seattle’s Socialist Council Member

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/04/02/pass-popcorn-wa-supreme-court-unanimously-oks-recall-campaign-seattles-socialist-council-member/

Remember Kshama Sawant? The Socialist politician first made waves eight years ago, just days after her election to Seattle’s city council, by urging Boeing workers to seize the company’s factories for themselves. Sawant later quarterbacked the head-tax proposal that prompted Amazon to leave the city, which the city council later reversed. Sawant spearheaded an effort to cut the police chief’s pay after Chief Carmen Best criticized Sawant’s effort to defund the police department, causing Best to resign in protest. Sawant also led a protest at Mayor Jenny Durkan’s home in favor of defunding the police and protecting the socialists’ seizure of several city blocks in the CHAZ/CHOP, despite Durkan’s home address being protected by a privacy statute.

For those and other reasons, opponents launched a recall effort against Sawant, which she sued to enjoin. Last night, a unanimous 9-0 ruling from the state supreme court approved the recall petition, holding that three of the four allegations listed are factually accurate and good cause for the recall:

This permits the recall organizers to begin gathering signatures.

[Wingnut]

She appealed the decision and:

Pass The Popcorn: WA Supreme Court Unanimously OK’s Recall Campaign Against Seattle’s Socialist Council Member

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/04/02/pass-popcorn-wa-supreme-court-unanimously-oks-recall-campaign-seattles-socialist-council-member/

This permits the recall organizers to begin gathering signatures.

Holy shit.  Let the Recall begin!

[libertybele]

This woman Sawant probably has a 50-50 chance of retaining her seat, but it doesn't really matter -- she's likely to be "replaced" with someone as far-to-the-left as she is now.

Or... even further.

Seattle is fast becoming a city where the only way to save it is to...
(you can fill in the rest)

.....turn it into a field of flowers.