A Trump-Loving Mayor Is Running SeaTac, a Majority-Minority Town Full of Immigrants
The majority-minority airport town of SeaTac boasts a robust and growing immigrant population. But it’s currently being governed by a Trump-loving mayor, Erin Sitterley, who was appointed by a mostly white city council in September shortly after the last mayor, Michael Siefkes, abruptly resigned and skipped town. According to The Seattle Times, Siefkes said he was leaving due to "health issues" and "other things," but he failed to mention that the Washington State Bar Association was threatening to disbar him for "wrongfully extract[ing] as much as $300,000 from a vulnerable client" at his law firm. The mayor before him, council member Rick Forschler, stepped down in 2016 after an independent investigation found that his hand-picked city manager wanted to create a “tactical map” of the city's Muslim residents.
A quick look at Sitterley’s Twitter feed reveals that she’s not much better, ideologically speaking, than Forschler’s old boy.
She unironically retweets Trump’s all-caps MAGA proclamations, seems to be with him on blocking funding to sanctuary cities (she retweeted Trump's "SEE YOU IN COURT" tweet, which was his response to a federal judge stalling his executive order), seems to be with him on building the unnecessary and racist border wall, and she appears to have approved of the appointment of Jeff Sessions, a guy who was literally too racist to be a Federal Judge in the 1980s. He further solidified his racist legacy when he helped implement and enforce the barbaric family separation policy, which has led to the detention of 14,000 children in camps.
Sitterley also retweeted "a traditional Conservative journalist" who characterized migration into Europe as a "Muslim invasion."
Read more: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/12/28/37491405/a-trump-loving-mayor-is-running-seatac-a-majority-minority-town-full-of-immigrants
The King County Democrats have pledged to find an alternative for voters.
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