When the going gets tough, Tammy retreats to her multi-million-dollar home and cushy life.

Morales clearly recognizes that her policies have failed, and failed badly. During Tammy's tenure:

the thriving International District was transformed from a rich cultural tapestry of restaurants, stores, and businesses into a drug-infested hellscape

Homelessness skyrocketed

Crime hit epic levels

overdoses increased to become #1 in the nation

her war on landlord resulted in mom-and-pops selling their affordable units in large number. In 2022, Seattle lost over 10,000 rental units! Now, we have to pay $4+ per sf to big Wall Street landlords

human trafficking exploded as Tammy overturned laws that protected women from sex slavery

Morales has been a slow-death poison for Seattle--it's great that she resigned.

Sara Nelson is terrible. Anyone in politics (or business) who uses the phrase "common-sense solutions" is clearly an idiot. The phrase is meaningless. Sara Nelson is an idiot. I assume Tanya Woo will now be appointed to Morales' seat.

@1 is probably Andrea Suarez. Does she live in D2? I hope not. She's a Sara Nelson wet dream.

Hannah, I'm sure her resignation has nothing to do with the stabbings. It's just because people are mean.

2 - the phrase "common sense solutions" is only meaningless to those who have none.

@5: You're dumb.

“If you want a friend in [the Seattle City Council], buy a dog.”

In the immortal words of Powers Boothe in "Tombstone".

"Bye"

Disappointing that she's leaving Rinck in the same situation she couldn't handle herself, but to the extent the current Council wouldn't pass anything associated with her I guess it makes some sense. It stays funny to me that the Council who ran on ending a toxic culture and restoring "good government" have so far done the exact opposite. Less funny that the rubes who bought their nonsense and voted for them don't seem to care.

TL; DR- snowflake takes bat and ball and goes home because elected majority disagrees with her.

Morales' resignation is disappointing in that with the election of Rink, progressives were building back strength in numbers in the City Council. Morales and Rink could have supported one another in facing the hostility of the conservative council. Now Rink will face it alone and be mostly ineffectual in her efforts.

@6 - and you're out of arguments, I see. So sorry.

The Progressive political agenda which calls for sweeping, society-wide change is incompatible with Progressive culture's habit of claiming "harm" or "bullying" any time their demands encounter resistance.

Under Morales, an already underserved district got even more underserved. The ID is a mess, we had a spate of arsons on Rainier Avenue, and property crime spiked. Council Members can't fix everything, but they can use their bully pulpit. She never did that.

There's nothing wrong with having a liberal agenda, but the primary responsibility of a Council Member in a district-based council is to tend to the bread-and-butter issues of their district. She didn't do that.

@14 "the primary responsibility of a Council Member in a district-based council is to tend to the bread-and-butter issues of their district"

Which of the other current CMs are doing a good job of this in your opinion? Saka with his curb removal spending maybe?

thirteen12 dear, being a resident of CM Morales former district, I only know that district first-hand. However, I will say that I think that Dan Strauss seems to be very engaged in his district's well-being. Saka seems to have drawn the ire of the bicycle hobbyists and "urbanists", but that's nothing new. I haven't heard anything, good or bad, about the rest of them.

@12 Who's arguing?

Interesting... "the council approved 96% of the amendments proposed by other council members and only 56% of Morales". One can nitpick CM Morales timing but with stats like that seems like it makes sense to jump ship sooner than later. If not doing any good then why stay?

The remaining council is voluntarily (and loudly) SPOG obsessed and Seattle voters need to weigh in on whether austerity for everything else is our preferred direction.

While tragic, I maintain that Councilmember Morales' downfall was foreseeable and can best be summarized by the regrettable term bandied about in the more plebeian fandoms: skill issue.

Based on her attack stats, it appeared early on that Councilmember Morales might be deploying a Glass Cannon build, but I see this was far too generous an estimation in hindsight. I had hoped* she could use the venerable Fenrilooga: Takemikazuchi OTK deck from Digimon TCG as an example of how to stave off her opponents. However, she like many others has forsaken Reason and instead chosen the path of the coward.

The DigimonOtis Brand can only remain hopeful that Councilmember Rinck prove a more worthy adversary to the simpering moderates on Council in the months to come.
-DigimonOtis

*see "BT 19 Strategies and Builds for Municipal Governance," in the April 2024 DigimonOtis e-Newsletter penned by none other than yours truly.

Donald Trump is going to wind up with maybe 20-25% of the vote in Seattle. Given that Kshama Sawant supported him, why would The Stranger think that members of the city council should have listened to anything she had to say?

Love how Motales cites the “toxic culture” when during the decade of progressive reign you routinely had mobs show up in council chambers to scream at and threaten CMs questioning progressive legislation, other CMs would call them out in the media as sell outs and corp tools and activists would show up at their homes to graffiti them with profane language and threaten the safety of their family. Not to mention Morales defense of looting and the lunacy of Chop. But sure when some of her legislation gets ignored because the CMs the voters chose actually do what the voters wanted Morales is too butt hurt to go on. What a joke.

Morales has been a great representative of D2 on council and I’m sorry to see her go. Just want to call out Tim Ceis as the architect of this toxic environment on the council, funneling corp $ to these awful candidates. And special mention to Dan Strauss who seems the worst kind of survivalist politician, always bowing to the majority, no actual convictions, and too little too late with the apologies.

So the “bullying” is just her not getting her way and being held accountable for the failed policies of the prior council as the most prominent remaining member of it? That’s not bullying, that’s called being in the minority. The current council is “conservative” which of course it isn’t by any rational political measure only because the stewardship of the previous one led to the city being in a wildly unpopular state. Teresa was the only one of the previous council’s progressive blog that had a pragmatic bone in her body, the council will be better off having Morales off of it.

@20, @21: While the Stranger has apparently decided Sawant’s stumping for Trump simply does not exist in their reality, it’s fun to watch them praise Sawant’s polarizing style of bullying other Council Members — after publishing repeated whines from and for CM Morales about the Council’s “toxic” environment, which seems to have magically appeared immediately after Sawant departed.

It is easy to swim with the current, but not so much fun in the other direction. Morales enjoyed her role as long as things went her way, but couldn't handle it when she was in the minority. Let's hope that the rest of the progressives in Congress, federal employees, etc don't just give up and leave now that Trump is in power.

These conservatives, are they in the room with you right now? Are they talking to you?
Progressives really hate it when someone dares to have a different opinion.

I'm pretty sure the "toxic" environment on the council began in 1869.

@1 She did all that? You're hallucinating.
@14 None of them are doing anything about "the bread and butter," unless you consider the realtors and landlords getting their latest bank fix, B&B.
@11 Most certainly.
@27 "I'm pretty sure the "toxic" environment on the council began in 1869." That's not what you had to say when the progressives were in greater control. It all started and stopped with Kshama Sawant and the toxicity ya'll claimed she brought to the council.

Is the quality of life in Seattle now any better since that these phonies have finally able to "do their thing"? It's still everyone else's fault you conservatives haven't fixed Seattle? And where has Harrell been in all of this? Why does he get such a pass when the toxicity is so great they literally forced an elected official out of the government with their anti-democratic beotch-games.

@28 It's interesting how conservatives, forever harping on "personal responsibility" never take responsibility for themselves. It's always about someone else, even when they are the ones in power.

Let me know when you can visit a friendly, safe, and clean downtown Seattle again - including in one bus trip without a transfer. I won't wait, though, with bated breath.

I was in Moore's district the other day. It's appalling how she's doing nothing to improve the atmosphere and quality of life, in general. Poverty, despair, and still no sidewalks. The streets for cars, too, are appalling potted and in disrepair. She's not doing a thing for her district.

This is how she spends taxpayer money - being an anti-democratic beotch to a duly elected progressive representative from another district so that the people of another district lose their elected representative. And while she does nothing to improve the quality of life in her own district.

I know people didn't want to vote for a former hooker, but she was much a nicer and more approachable person, and I am sure her office would have been hosting one appointment after another with the regular and ordinary people in that district, all of whom I am sure would never go near the COLD BEOTCHY FISH that sits there now and instead. Voters, wise up! It's never too late to learn.

@19 Tragic? How is this tragic? I am LMFAO as she exits in the most ungraceful foot stomping little bitch display I have ever seen.

@19 Tragic? How is this tragic? I am LMFAO as she exits in the most ungraceful foot stomping little bitch display I have ever seen.

@31 You forget that she represents populations of thousands of people that her antagonizers are alienating. And as far as I'm understanding, part of this is just revenge for their sense that she didn't stand by them when they were being attacked by Sawant. They're punishing anyone who stood with Sawant. Meanwhile their own districts and the conditions therein are going to hell while they play these kindergarten games.