Common Dreams
“We have defeated Big Business and the right wing in their attempt to use… trumped-up charges against me personally in order to push back against the success of working-class movements in Seattle.”
Progressive cheers went up far and wide Friday after Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant officially defeated a right-wing recall effort, which the Socialist Alternative lawmaker called “part of the nationwide backlash” by billionaires and Big Business targeting lawmakers and others fighting for social justice and working people.
Elections officials in King County, Washington certified the anti-recall effort, with a final tally of 20,656 ballots against recalling Sawant and 20,346 in favor—a victory margin of 310 votes.
“We have won three elections and now we have defeated this recall,” Sawant said during a Thursday interview for Jordan Chariton’s Status Coup News podcast. “We have defeated Big Business and the right wing in their attempt to use… trumped-up charges against me personally in order to push back against the success of working-class movements in Seattle.”
