The late legendary Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill once famously noted that “all politics is local”.
Still, many political observers often read too much into local or even state elections as statements on national trends.
But the recent outcome of the Seattle city attorney’s election may say something about how fed up voters, even in liberal metros, are with woke Democrats in America’s major cities.
Last week, 12-year incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes was ousted after finishing third in a primary election.
The top two vote-getters were left-wing Democrat Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and moderate Republican – yes, Republican, in Seattle – Ann Davison.
As the Seattle Times put it last week, “The result will leave Seattle with a clear-cut choice in November between a law-and-order candidate and an abolitionist who wants to halt most misdemeanor prosecutions.”
Davison, a former Democrat who believed the party had drifted too far to the left, got 33 percent of the vote.
The Times noted that Holmes, the incumbent, believed that both candidates took unfair shots at him, with the Thomas-Kennedy portraying him as too harsh and Davison saying he’s too soft. He pointed out that his office only prosecutes misdemeanors, which are less serious crimes.
But they do affect the quality of life, and the more liberal candidate, who ran as an “abolitionist,” has said she will essentially quit prosecuting them.
Thomas-Kennedy also has praised Black Lives Matter rioters, once tweeting last year, “Property destruction is a moral imperative.”
Thomas-Kennedy also once stated, “Police and prisons don’t promote public safety, but do accomplish ‘what they were actually designed to do: control and disappear the poor, the disabled and BIPOC,” referring to black, indigenous and people of color.
It’s fair to think that the two liberal candidates split the majority vote and that Davison may not do better in November than she did now.
Still, as the Times noted, former President Donald Trump got only 8 percent of the vote in 2020 – 25 percentage points fewer than Davison.
It may turn out that it was actually Davison and the incumbent who spilt the vote and that Seattle is tiring of left-wing bureaucrats, like those elsewhere, who have failed to slow violent crime, allowed homelessness to blossom, and permitted Antifa and BLM thugs to take over whole city blocks for an “autonomous zone.”
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