Just like fellow socialist Bernie Sanders, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is a hypocrite. Here’s her latest screed on capitalism:
We need to continue building a powerful movement to end gentrification, to fully fund public schools & decent jobs.
Capitalism *is* a police state. While we'll have to fight to win reforms, we have to dismantle capitalism to win a violence-free society.https://t.co/xvAQs67GGn
— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) June 29, 2020
The womyn who hates capitalism? She’s has a net worth nearly half a million. According to a story from The Stranger in October 2019:
“Council Member Kshama Sawant estimates her net worth at $490,000 and list an income from both her city council position and as a political organizer for Socialist Alternative, her political party, which pays her between $10,000 and $25,000 a year. Sawant owns a home worth between $200,000 and a million dollars and is married to Calvin Priest, who works for an organization called 15 Now.
Sawant said she would only take $40,000 of the salary and donate the rest, but came under fire after the blog SCC Insight reported that she donated portions of her salary to Socialist Alternative and 15 Now, the two organizations that her family gets an income from.”
For a womyn who sure seems to despise capitalism, it’s made her wealthy. Hypocrite.
DCG
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DCG, thanks to your reporting on the awful politicians in Seattle, it came as no surprise to FOTM readers when the lunatic mayor rolled over for the BLM/Antifa monsters.
15 Now was launched in January of 2014 by Seattle City Council Member, Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative to fight for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle.
And so, a generation or two down the line, we see what becomes of a failed war to contain communism in SE Asia. Their progeny have moved here and are now trying to over-throw our own country, its Constitution, government, religion, education, and way of life… in favor of their own socialism.
BTW, the Leftist Democrat Mayor (and prior prosecutor) has asked that the socialist council member (Savant) be removed from office. So there is a shred of honor among thieves and anarchists…
The only reason mayor Durkan finally did something against the socialist is because Sawant let the protestors to the mayor’s front door. Mayor doesn’t like protestors near her house.
Uh, it’s SOCIALIST POLICIES that lead to gentrification! They drive taxes and other costs so high that only the well heeled can afford to live in an gentrified area-duh.
I resent the hell out of people like her who come here from other countries, reap the benefits, and then try to destroy our country because ” they don’t like it”. Go back to India or wherever it is you came from witch.
But none of Bernie’s or Sawant’s socialist followers care ’cause facts don’t matter. To quote my socialist friend Stephanie who uttered these words so many years ago when she got frustrated when I pointed out certain facts: “I’ve made up my mind! Don’t confuse me with facts!”