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This was the first recall election held in Seattle since the one held against Mayor Wesley C. Uhlman in 1975, and the first for a city councilor in the city's history. Ernie Lou filed a complaint against Sawant on August 18, 2020, to the King County Elections Office to start the recall campaign against her.
He was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2008 to 2020. From 2016 to 2020, he was president of the city council. [2] He was acting mayor of Seattle from September 13 to 18, 2017. [3] [4] He was elected mayor in his own right in the 2021 Seattle mayoral election, becoming the city's second Black mayor, and its first African-Asian American ...
Lorena González, who was first elected in the 2015 election and was selected to serve as president of the city council in 2020, announced on February 3, 2021, that she would run in the mayoral election. [26] Nikkita Oliver, who had run in the 2017 mayoral election, announced that they would run for city council on March 10. [27]
Barr, who's come under fire by right-wing media for not bolstering the president's evidence-free claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, declared that guidance outdated.
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[39] [40] By August 2021, Burk publicly stated she no longer believed there was election fraud in the 2020 election and she had been manipulated by Townsend and an associate. Townsend was a leader in the Stop the Steal movement and Oathkeeper with militia ties who sponsored a bill to recall Trump electors.
The largest tax proposal in county history is the Harborview Medical Center bond approved by King County voters in November 2020. That tax totals $1.74 billion over 20 years, so the annual impact ...
The 2021 Seattle City Attorney election was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes sought reelection to a fourth term in office, but came third place in the officially nonpartisan August 3 primary election and failed to advance to the general election, with both Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Ann Davison finishing ahead of Holmes in the primary.