Seattle has a weird relationship with Amazon

[Crumpets]

One Seattle councilwoman wants to "unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership".

Yeah, it's a common side effect of having one radical leftist councilmember to get headlines like this, but she's still only one out of nine, and the other eight would laugh at the suggestion of "nationalizing Amazon" as people were putting it when she first got elected.

In 2014 the city passed one of the nation's first $15 an hour minimum wage laws.

Which effects basically nobody at Amazon, except maybe the janitors and the handful of people working at their bookstore + experimental grocery store.

[Crumpets]

Corprocrat Jenny Durkan is taking money directly from Amazon and Comcast because they seem to really hate her progressive challenger, Cary Moon.

Interesting that jfern supports the same candidate as I do. I would have expected him to support writing-in Nikita Oliver to stick it to the Moon campaign for having only made the general thanks to the endorsement of the obvious corporate sellouts at the Stranger Election Control Board, possible election of Durkan be damned.