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With Murray out, ho-hum mayoral race now a tumult (Seattle Mayor)
Seattle Times:As recently as February, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s most prominent challenger for re-election was a safe-streets activist who distributed homemade tamales from his cargo bike at a campaign-launch event that no major news outlets attended.
Three months later, neither the mayor nor that first challenger remain in the race — and the once-drowsy contest has become a mind-boggling free-for-all with more than a dozen serious candidates, including a former U.S. attorney, a state senator, a state representative, a former mayor and an educator-attorney-activist.
Murray dropped out Tuesday, saying allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s had become too much of a distraction, despite his denials. Before the claims surfaced in April, he had been widely expected to cruise to a second term.
Safe-streets activist Andres Salomon had already bowed out — ending his run to make way for a better-known bicycling advocate, former Mayor Mike McGinn. Looking back, Salomon can’t believe how drastically and how quickly everything changed.
Three months later, neither the mayor nor that first challenger remain in the race — and the once-drowsy contest has become a mind-boggling free-for-all with more than a dozen serious candidates, including a former U.S. attorney, a state senator, a state representative, a former mayor and an educator-attorney-activist.
Murray dropped out Tuesday, saying allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s had become too much of a distraction, despite his denials. Before the claims surfaced in April, he had been widely expected to cruise to a second term.
Safe-streets activist Andres Salomon had already bowed out — ending his run to make way for a better-known bicycling advocate, former Mayor Mike McGinn. Looking back, Salomon can’t believe how drastically and how quickly everything changed.
