Still off with my kids but @ayoonhendricks.bsky.social has the dispatch from City Hall, where Katie Wilson formally and ceremonially became mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The thing that makes Die Hard great is that Bruce Willis is always freaking out a little bit and knows he’s in over his head. Action stars today are all too cold blooded. Give me an Everyman hero

Learned last night that Josh O’Connor and Callum Turner are two different people

There are a couple funny people on SNL, I suppose, but the only one who had any actual magnetism was Bowen Yang

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson makes her first departmental change, giving SDOT to Angela Brady of the waterfront. At the same time, she's keeping Tanya Kim in HSD and Dwayne Chappelle at DEEL. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It’s wild how muddy looking Puget Sound is, I assume because of flood runoff

There’s a bevy of quails (yes, that’s the term) living around my house and I’ve formed a Tony Soprano-like relationship to them. If they leave I too might have a panic attack

Not to be a homer, but the amount of flood coverage coming from my colleagues is really astounding. A great public service imo. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

Rob Saka has been talking for 20 minutes. Not slowing down either. How long can we go?

To raise one’s baby, one must themselves become a baby

Texted the number I had for a former city council person and… it was not that person

Seattle is desperately lacking tiny bars and now the only good one (that I can think of) is closing. seattle.eater.com/restaurant-n...

Seattle will spend another nearly $28 million to bail out ailing affordable housing providers, bringing the total to $42 million over the last two years. This is not bringing online any new housing, but instead keeping afloat what already exists. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Been thinking about this lately. I haven't clocked any public appearances by Harrell since his concession speech.

Project aside, kinda interesting that Wilson is the one wearing the hard hat here and not Harrell

The only good cyber Monday deal is from my local grocery store which lets you buy $400 worth of grocery gift cards for $300. I just keep them for myself.

On my first post-election chat with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

For the first nearly two years of my son’s life, the only two singers he would abide were Raffi and Jimmy Cliff. RIP

Sometimes I think the New Yorker intentionally publishes inscrutable cartoons to maintain the vibe

Did Ryan Lizza get hit with a cease and desist or something? Where's part II?

Not that this is why they’re doing this or why it was offered, but to the extent Wilson owes her election to anyone, the top two candidates are probably McCoy and Estevenin

The tenuous decorum between Bruce Harrell’s office and Sara Nelson is evaporating, as Nelson goes after Harrell’s political consultant with new proposed legislation. Harrell’s team and consultant Christian Sinderman call it a misguided priority by a sore loser www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Olivia Nuzzi apparently torched all journalistic ethics in pursuit of a profile about Mark Sanford and still wrote one the worst ledes I’ve ever read

Everybody be sure to tune into a city council meeting before the end of the year so you can get one last dose of the excruciating interactions between Dan Strauss and Sara Nelson

Bidding farewell to what I had come to call my PAC pile (though some came from the campaigns)

The person I met yesterday who was the most nonplussed about Harrell’s loss was Tim Burgess, who was widely expected to retire at the end of the year regardless. He shrugged his shoulders at me and said “this is how this works. Peaceful transfer of power.”

How could Katie Wilson allow this happen

I ran into Tony Hale aka Gary from Veep on my way back from covering our new city government today lol. I said hi and he was very pleasant

Katie Wilson is now up by over 2,000 votes and 0.73%. Still an agonizingly close race, but comfortably out of the margin for a recount.

I love congratulatory statements from sitting politicians: “The takeaway from this election is clear: we need to do more of what I already thought was the most important thing”

Mayor Bruce Harrell has conceded the election to now mayor-elect Katie Wilson. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Mayor Bruce Harrell says he's spoken to "mayor-elect Wilson" to congratulate her and wish her well

Waiting for an announcement. I have a guess what it’s about

There won't be a statement from Harrell's campaign tonight, per spokesperson. They appear to be saving it for tomorrow.

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Katie Wilson being a socialist will come up a lot, particularly from the right. It’s true she identifies that way, as she told Danny Westneat. But I found it interesting that Seattle’s DSA chapter voted against endorsing her. Unlike Mamdani, she’s not affiliated with any socialist organizations.

I promise I will eventually write about the Growth Management Hearings Board ruling on Sara Nelson's Sodo bill

From King County: "As of right now (and we’ll keep seeing a handful of on-time ballots through the mail) we’ve got 1,463 accepted ballots to post plus whatever portion of the 1,540 signature challenges that get resolved."

Katie Wilson is now almost certainly Seattle's 58th mayor. We spoke just now: "We’re going to wait for all of the ballots to be counted, but I think we won this race." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Well, I just got a bounceback email from Harrell's campaign spokesperson saying she's not with the campaign anymore. This race could very well go on until late December!

Here, to my knowledge, was the city’s last hand recount, in 2015 between Lisa Herbold and Shannon Braddock for city council. Nine votes changed, all of them write ins reclassified as under votes. Herbold and Braddock’s tallies remained the same.

New: Katie Wilson has taken the lead over Bruce Harrell by just 91 votes. Not enough for anyone to declare victory or concede defeat, but it likely makes her the favorite with roughly 6400 ballots left. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The word from King County Elections is we'll probably get around 35,000 Seattle ballots in today's count. That will leave roughly 10,000 left. It sounds like they had quite a few "cured" ballots come in over the weekend that will be counted Tuesday (Yes, they're counting on Veteran's Day).

An #exclusive look into the Harrell and Wilson campaigns! youtube.com/shorts/jpMxD...

I don't know if this election will follow the same pattern because the counting has been a little different this year, but here's M. Lorena Gonzalez's vote share by day from 2021. Friday was her peak.

Tanya Woo winning more votes than all but four people in Seattle history and losing by 17 points certainly tells you something about having a race during a presidential year

This is incredible. King County elections is now saying they have 45,000 ballots left to count. If Wilson gets exactly the same margin of those as she got today she'll take the lead by... 20 votes!

Katie Wilson made big gains on Bruce Harrell in today's vote count. The count probably makes her the slight favorite at this point, but no one's declaring or conceding anything. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

King county elections just sent a notice saying they expect 50k Seattle ballots in today’s drop, 100k countywide. That leaves at least another 50k in Seattle after that.

Today in, Seattle elections are confusing, Decision Desk HQ has called the mayor’s race for Bruce Harrell while Polymarket gives Katie Wilson 60% odds