During Mayor Durkan’s term as mayor, the Seattle Department of Transportation canceled several bicycle lanes and green-way projects that had been planned in previous years under the city’s comprehensive bicycle plan and funded in the 2015 Move Seattle levy.  In…

During the 2017 Seattle mayoral election, Durkan was the only candidate to not sign a letter requesting that Seattle hotel owners, represented by the Seattle Hospitality for Progress PAC and Washington Hospitality PAC, drop a lawsuit against Initiative 124.  The…

During a July 2017 mayoral candidate forum, Mayor Durkan tossed miniature tequila bottles into the all-ages crowd and during the “talent competition” imitated Melissa McCarthy’s parody of then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer from Saturday Night Live in costume, and…

In 2013, Durkan prosecuted Walli Mujahidh and Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif for conspiring to kill US military personnel on July 4, 2011, in a terrorist plot.  The FBI and SPD had used a convicted pedophile, Robert Childs, as a paid informant…

During the 2012 May Day protests in Seattle, masked individuals identified as “black bloc” members vandalized a federal courthouse.  In July, FBI agents raided the house of several suspects in Portland, Oregon.  These suspects were later found not to have…

In November 2011, before recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington state, Mayor Durkan ordered a raid on 10 dispensaries in the state.  The targeted dispensaries were accused of “flagrant violations” of laws because DEA officers believed that “the shops were…