Progressives on Sunday celebrated the triumphs of two West Coast candidates who were finally able to declare victories in their elections after officials in Seattle and San Francisco spent days tallying votes. Chesa Boudin, a public defender and the son of parents who were incarcerated when he was a child, won San Francisco’s election for district attorney, promised to confront mass incarceration, institutionalized racism, and police violence in the city. Boudin’s win came hours after Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant declared her own victory in the race for the seat she has held for six years. Amazon poured $1.5 million into the race supporting opponent of Sawant. Amazon and other big companies’s unprecedented effort to unseat a city council member, Sawant said in a statement, “clarified to people that big business is not on our side.”
— source commondreams.org | Nov 10, 2019