Socialist Politics to Stay: Seattle Re-Elects Kshama Sawant

To hell with capitalism



http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Socialist-Politics-to-Stay-Seattle-Re-Elects-Kshama-Sawant-20151104-0010.html

Seattle voted for working-class politics by re-electing socialist incumbent Kshama Sawant to City Council with a five point lead over her challenger.

Seattle residents will be seeing more campaigns in City Council and in the streets to fight inequality and build social justice after the re-election of socialist City Councillor Kshama Sawant in the city’s high-profile municipal election on Tuesday.

“We have accomplished something historic,” Sawant said to supporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday night as election results came in. “We have had an open socialist re-elected to City Council.”

Sawant, who secured a municipal minimum wage increase in her first term in City Council, won Seattle’s District 3 area by 5 percentage points over challenger Pamela Banks, who has been known to align herself with the business community.