Seattle council race between pro-business and progressive candidates stays tight

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LOS ANGELES — Seattle’s city council race was a toss-up between a pro-business and a progressive council on Tuesday night, despite record election campaign donations from big donors, in…

LOS ANGELES — Seattle’s city council race was a toss-up between a pro-business and a progressive council on Tuesday night, despite record election campaign donations from big donors, including tech giant Amazon.com.

More ballots will be counted in the coming days, although a winner might be clear after the next count on Wednesday afternoon. “We faced an onslaught of corporate cash,” Sawant said at an election night party. “If anything we underestimated the brazenness of Bezos, corporate real estate, and big business.”The Seattle metropolitan area’s growing problem with homelessness – King County has the third-largest homeless population after New York city and Los Angeles County – has been a key point of friction between Amazon and the city.

 

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