Seattle-area lawmakers say colleague's campaign flyer is racist, 'horrifying'

[AZProgressive]

A campaign mailer sent out by a Washington county council member up for re-election this week has sparked a wave of outrage in the county's legislative body, with members condemning it as "racist" and "xenophobic."

As The Seattle Times reported, incumbent King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert's campaign sent out a mailer depicting her opponent, Sarah Perry, as a marionette, or "socialist puppet" as Lambert's campaign put it, being controlled by Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), King County Councilmembers Girmay Zahilay and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.

Zahilay, Sawant and Harris are all people of color and Sanders is white and Jewish. Lambert is white. Zahilay and three other county council members have endorsed Perry, but he is the only person of color on the council.

Link to tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/575802-seattle-area-lawmakers-say-colleagues-campaign-flyer-is-racist?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[gratuitous]

1. What's Kathy Lambert suppose to do? Run on the issues and her vision for governance?

Fear mongering and racism are what she's all about. Take that away from her, and you're just a cancel culture socialist just-us warrior for the gay commies who hate baby Jesus.

Hmmm, not bad. Can I work "critical race theory" in there, too?

[ZZenith]

2. The complete lack of design skills in a flyer should be instant disqualification from public office.

In a perfect world, the type of mind who saw that and okayed it would never be allowed near the levers of power in any manner.

That’s before you even get into the racist content.