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Amazon tried to remove a Seattle City Councilmember and lost. Here's how she describes taking on and defeating one of the world's biggest companies.

, $1.45 million isn't much money — a rounding error on the billions in revenue the retail giant brings in every year. Apply that $1.45 million to the Seattle City Council elections, however, and it's a far more significant sum.

That's because of Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a Seattle politician who's notoriously critical of Amazon's impact on Seattle., which lobbies on behalf of Seattle's business groups — the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. And that PAC financially backed Sawant's opponent, Egan Orion, who received over $400,000 in campaign contributions.

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