'Less than 24 hours into the MLB All-Star Week and Seattle already had suffered a violent and bloody weekend,' writes jasonrantz of 770KTTH. 'By Sunday morning, the lawlessness continued.'
The Harrell administration has been mostly silent when it comes to the issues facing the city.
While Harrell has undoubtedly engaged in some efforts to clean up the downtown area, he does it so slowly and casually that there’s plenty of time for the issues to creep back up. For example, while he has been sweeping parts of SODO, the homeless just end up returning because there’s little follow-up and no pressure to push homeless into a shelter or treatment.
It would be one thing if Harrell was aggressively tackling the issues and offering honest assessments of the city, only to take an understandable break to be a city publicist during the MLB All-Star Week. But there hasn’t been a significant change in his messaging between before and during the MLB event. That means he’s likely to continue to stay mostly silent while the city continues to suffer, once the MLB executives pack up and leave.
While I want big events like the MLB All-Star Week to come to Seattle, I want them here because we’re actually a safe and clean city, not merely pretending to be one. "The Mayor just has to be a little bit courageous, politically, instead of kotowing to the crazies who are the anti-sweep folks, the pro-drug use folks and anti-cop people."
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