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With the contribution figures such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren decried Amazon's “out-of-control corporate greed” and promoted a message that Amazon was “trying to tilt the Seattle City Council elections in their favor.” The progressive and socialist candidates framed the election as a choice between Amazon and the #Resistance. Seattle voters turned out for the progressive-socialist slate. All but one of the most progressive candidates won their districts—including a [[Democratic Socialists of America]] candidate and a [[Trotskyite]] incumbent Kshama Sawant, who demands the nationalization of [[Boeing]] and Amazon. Seattle's ''City Journal'' reported,
With the contribution figures such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren decried Amazon's “out-of-control corporate greed” and promoted a message that Amazon was “trying to tilt the Seattle City Council elections in their favor.” The progressive and socialist candidates framed the election as a choice between Amazon and the #Resistance. Seattle voters turned out for the progressive-socialist slate. All but one of the most progressive candidates won their districts—including a [[Democratic Socialists of America]] candidate and a [[Trotskyite]] incumbent Kshama Sawant, who demands the nationalization of [[Boeing]] and Amazon. Seattle's ''City Journal'' reported,
{{quotebox|The progressive-socialist alliance has wasted no time laying out an ambitious agenda. It includes ordinances for rent control, drug-consumption sites, decriminalization of prostitution, legalization of homeless encampments, defunding critical police programs, free public transit, and an array of new taxes, including a “mansion tax,” “excess compensation tax,” and an “Amazon tax” three times larger than the original levy that was repealed last year. Amazon tried to unseat Seattle’s progressive regime, but the progressives have only strengthened their hold on municipal power—and now they’re out for revenge.<ref>https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-progressive-city-council-amazon</ref>}}
{{quotebox|The progressive-socialist alliance has wasted no time laying out an ambitious agenda. It includes ordinances for rent control, drug-consumption sites, decriminalization of prostitution, legalization of homeless encampments, defunding critical police programs, free public transit, and an array of new taxes, including a “mansion tax,” “excess compensation tax,” and an “Amazon tax” three times larger than the original levy that was repealed last year. Amazon tried to unseat Seattle’s progressive regime, but the progressives have only strengthened their hold on municipal power—and now they’re out for revenge.<ref>https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-progressive-city-council-amazon</ref>}}
===Misuse of homeless encampment funds===
Mike Mathias, a formerly homeless person who Seattle Public Schools appointed to remove a dangerous homeless encampment was accused of using meth with the campers and using their housing vouchers as leverage to get them to comply with his demands.
After demands from parents, teachers and neighbors to clear the encampment following crime, drug dealing, drug use, prostitution and rodent infestation attributed to the campers, Seattle Public Schools contracted with Mathias of a new non-profit called Anything Helps. According to documents obtained by ''The Post Millennial'',<ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/official-homeless-encampments-seattle-meth-habit</ref> Mathias was being accused of using funds from the non-profit to purchase meth for personal use. The documents citing multiple witnesses who claimed Mathias spent "large cash amounts" to purchase drugs for campers and himself. Additionally, "Despite multiple requests to produce receipts, Mr. Mathias cannot account for all Anything Helps funds. And that funds were unaccounted for." The documents also state that Mathias was "…pressuring women at the camp to 'hit' or 'slam' him with meth."
Seattle School Board Chair Chandra Hampson and Director Zachary DeWolf demanded Mayor Jenny Durkan not allow the encampments to be removed from school grounds. Hampson and DeWolf published a joint statement condemning any potential removal of encampments from school property or anywhere else in the city, saying "We demand sweeps NEVER be performed on school grounds, adjacent or elsewhere in this City." Local Marxist activists enabled the campers by giving them supplies and chasing off volunteer groups. Neighbors told ''The Post Millennial'' that Antifa activists were spotted harassing outreach volunteers and have told the campers that the volunteer outreach groups, made up mostly of middle-aged residents, are dangerous.
A June 2021 email obtained by ''The Post Millennial'' showed that Seattle School Board introduced Matthias as a solution to removing the encampment after the suggestion came from one of the campers themselves. A simple background check would have revealed that that Mathias had an extensive criminal past as well as addiction and mental health challenges.
===2020 Marxist riots===
===2020 Marxist riots===