Councilmember removed from leadership after offensive mailer
SEATTLE (AP) — The Metropolitan King County Council voted Tuesday to remove Councilmember Kathy Lambert from her leadership role on committees as punishment for a mailer sent out by her campaign that featured a colleague and was widely condemned as racist.
After initially defending the mailer, which portrayed Black Councilmember Girmay Zahilay as a socialist and puppet master holding a marionette of Lambert’s opponent, Lambert apologized last week amid rescinded endorsements, saying the message is “not what was intended.”
Before the vote was taken, Lambert asked to instead resign from her committee leadership positions, The Seattle Times reported. She said the vote on removing her was “rushed in an unprecedented way” and was about damaging her reelection prospects. She faces a challenging race for reelection in November.
“One lapse in judgment that was insensitive should not be allowed to overshadow 27 years of good service,” Lambert said. “For those of you who have never made an insensitive remark or act, congratulations.”
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