Exit interview: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on the pandemic, Amazon, and fighting the city council
To suggest that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan had a pressurized run as the Emerald City’s top elected official is to badly understate her tenure.
Drafted into office after a disgraced former mayor resigned and then faced with meteoric-yet-destabilizing growth, a worldwide pandemic, generational social unrest and a city council that had very different ideas about governance, Durkan’s weathered run in local history is unlike any of her predecessors.
Fights over police reform, over unaffordable houses, over the civic duty of the city’s largest employer in Amazon, and over how to balance compassion for the unhoused population against a frustrated business community, dominated her tenure — one she elected to end without seeking re-election.
Durkan, a former U.S. attorney and number one Seattle Storm fan, spent time with GeekWire recently to talk about her time as mayor. (And no, she’s not going to miss the city council one bit.) The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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