Jenny Durkan announces she won't seek a second term as Seattle mayor

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Jenny Durkan announced Monday that she will not be running for re-election as Seattle’s mayor, opting not to pursue a second term.

Durkan revealed her intentions in a video released Monday morning, saying that she believed she “had a choice to make” between spending 2021 campaigning for reelection and spending her energy “focusing on doing the job” of governing, especially during what health experts hope with be the critical tail-end of the pandemic.

“There was only one right choice for our city: doing the job,” she said. “I’ve decided not to run for reelection, because Seattle, we still have some tough months ahead.”

2020 marked a difficult year in Seattle politics, amid the COVID-19 crisis that put the city’s budget deeply in peril, the resignation of Police Chief Carmen Best, and summer protests that culminated in calls to cut 50% of the police department’s budget and redirect it into social programs.

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