Katie Wilson, photographed in her new office two days before she was sworn in as mayor.
This time last year, Katie Wilson had no plans to run for any elected position, let alone the highest office in Seattle.
Then, last February, voters adopted a tax on big Seattle businesses that would pay for the city’s newly created Social Housing Developer. Not only did the measure win in a landslide, it did so despite the fact that then-Mayor Bruce Harrell had endorsed a competing measure to stop it.
The common wisdom before that special election was that Harrell was on the glidepath to reelection and would be the first
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