It is fitting that Seattle had so much trouble making up its mind in the 2025 contest for mayor.

After all, we haven’t been able to choose decisively between the competing visions on offer for more than a decade now.

Do we want to be hard or soft on crime? Do we want the city to intervene aggressively in street homelessness, or take more of a permissive, laissez faire approach?

How about public use of drugs — should we crack down for the good of our public spaces, or let it slide, treating it as more of a health concern for the afflicted?

We’re conflicted.

Currently Seattle is headed left, what with landslide wins by two progressive council members and a new city attorney. But that’s after veering toward the center in 2021 and 2023. Which itself came on the heels of a 2019 progressive

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