Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) has taken every opportunity to blame progressive policymakers for our city’s ills (see their “This is Seattle” posts retweeting conservative “journalist” Jonathan Choe), but surprisingly, they’ve entirely kept their money out of city politics. This week, though, they got back in the game. Their candidate? City Attorney Ann “Became a Republican After Trump Was Elected” Davison.
It was only a $350 donation, which doesn’t buy much in a campaign, but that’s the maximum individual donation democracy voucher candidates are allowed to take.
SPOG is the largest police union in the state. They negotiate the police contract with the City (and, as a result, are largely to blame for our inflated police budget and la