Disagreements between Seattle’s previous mayor, Jenny Durkan, and city council began almost the moment she took office. That included a battle over how the city was spending its soda tax revenue in 2018, a stalled nomination for a new Human Services Department director in 2019, and calls for Durkan to resign from at least three councilmembers in the wake 2020’s social justice protests.
“I think that the residents of the city don’t respond well to public disagreements,” he added. “They see the city as one entity and it’s extremely off-putting when they see these internal conflicts, and then everyone loses.”
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