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Katie Wilson is a 42 year old woman that never graduated and she used to be a barista. That's exactly the kind of motherfucking mayor that I want for my city. That's exactly the kind of mayor I want. 41 years old, dropped out of college, never held a real job for any period of time, has lived off of her mommy and daddy in their basement up until 40, never owned a car, rides a bicycle. She's a community organizer making $75,000 a year now, living in a one bedroom apartment with her husband. They can't afford their bills with their child because he also doesn't have a job. Her mom and dad still cover her bills and daycare for her child and you just made her the mayor of Seattle. If you thought Chicago was bad under Brandon Johnson, Seattle just said hold my coffee. This is Katie Wilson right after her acceptance speech going after Starbucks. Thank you to the incredible Starbucks partners and workers who are here today and fighting across the country for a fair contract and for a union. Because in Seattle, when workers rights are under attack, what do we do? When workers rights are under attack, what do we do? Today, I'm asking everyone who believes in fairness, dignity and workers rights to stand with us on this picket line. While baristas are on strike, the baristas have shared that the best way to show our support is not to buy Starbucks in solidarity. So Seattle is already in trouble, but somehow voters said let's try something completely wild. They elected Katie Wilson, a democratic socialist with zero management experience, never managed a massive budget, never had employees depend on her, but the city is already dealing with high crime, homelessness, retail collapse and empty downtown streets. Therefore, putting someone with activist energy in charge of a collapsing city, that's like putting someone who can assemble a chair from Ikea in charge of building an entire house. How do you think it's going to go? And I understand why people vote for Katie Wilson or Zon Mandon here in New York City. A lot of people are desperate. They're tired, they're frustrated, and they're fed up with corporations buying everything up while regular folks can't even buy eggs without checking their bank at first. So they think, you know what, let's stick it to the corporate fat cats. Let's vote for the person who was yelling at the CEOs of Amazon and Target and Walmart. Let's get that person to run the entire city. But what they don't understand and what they're going to learn the hard way is that big government is actually worse. Corporations are aggressive and they can be annoying. They can overcharge. They can try to find ways to sneak by certain things, but they cannot kick down your door. They can't necessarily empty your bank account and call it a public service, but big government can. They think that they're voting for justice, but what they really voted for is in a government that grows bigger, hungrier, and louder while their wallets will become smaller. They want to punish the CEO class, but they accidentally handed the city to people who think every solution to every problem is another tax, another ban, and another program that costs money no one in the city actually has. Katie Wilson wants to raise taxes out of habit. She's pushing for wealth tax, corporate tax, digital ad tax, capital gain taxes, payroll taxes, and government-run grocery stores. All from someone who has never ever generated any kind of revenue. Excited to get to work to make sure that the city of Seattle is delivering for people. Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores at will, and leave behind food deserts. Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural. Corporations create them when they abandon our communities. As mayor, I'm excited to step up and with UFCW explore public option grocery stores to fill those gaps. Fred Meyer's corporate PR machine wants us to look at their decision to close these stores and to take their excuses at face value. They want us to think it's about crime and poverty and what they like to call regulatory burdens, which means high wages and strong labor standards. But don't fall for it. Disclosure is about just one thing, corporate greed. How do you force a private business not to close? What kind of nonsense is that? I mean, think about it for two seconds. A store is losing money. People are stealing everything. That's not nailed down. Insurance premiums are skyrocketing. The city won't prosecute shoplifting unless you steal enough to fill a U-Haul. And the mayor's answer is basically, nope, you stay right here because I said so. You can't trap a business inside city limits like you're putting them on timeout. Once you start telling private businesses they can't leave, what do you think every other new company is going to say? They're going to probably say, well, we're not coming. Her ideas won't fix the crime or the cost. They're just forcing struggling businesses to stay until they die. Seattle is about to come the nightmare business version of a really scary hotel. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. She's leaning a whole lot on ideology. So if Katie Wilson puts all of these ideas to play, what's going to happen is the tax is going to get higher. Prices are going to get higher. Businesses are going to close. There's still going to be empty storefronts, fewer jobs, and a shrinking middle class with no new investment. So if Seattle hasn't hit the bottom yet, it will in due time. I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown. And if, you know, the ones that leave like by so. One of Washington's iconic companies headquartered in Seattle now plans to open a major corporate office in Nashville. Today, Starbucks announced it will add thousands of jobs and invest millions in Tennessee. The big move brings bigger questions about what it means economically for Washington. Five months. That's all the time it took for Seattle's new mayor to go from standing on a picket line, telling her entire city to stop buying Starbucks coffee, to releasing a statement begging that same company to stay. Two thousand jobs and a hundred million dollars are now headed to Tennessee, and the people of Seattle are the ones left holding the bill. This is a state that has become the envy of many states. As Tennessee's governor, Bill Lee rolls out the red carpet for Starbucks. And we are extremely grateful for you, Brian, for your team. A sharp contrast to what Mayor Wilson said at a Starbucks workers rally in November, encouraging people to boycott the company. When Fox 13 asked Wilson in early April 2026 whether she regretted the Starbucks boycott call, she deflected. They've been in talks for forever. She emphasized the company wasn't leaving Seattle, just expanding elsewhere. And then there's Nick Hanover. Hanover is a Seattle billionaire who spent years and millions of his own dollars building the progressive tax framework that Washington now runs on. He bankrolled the push for Seattle's $15 minimum wage. He funded the campaign for the state capital gains tax. He wrote essays telling wealthy people they needed to pay more or face social unrest. He appeared in documentaries making the case for investing in the middle class. He coined the term middle out economics. And when GeekWire asked him about Washington's new income tax, here's what he said. Virtually every wealthy friend I have has either left or is planning to. It's a catastrophe. The architect of the system called his own creation a catastrophe. That sentence deserves a moment to land.