I think this is a reasonable thing to think and they might be right that the budgeting gets nastier after this, but I can't see how anyone could put this on the mayor.
- $1.3b voter approved levy in 2025 (https://www.seattle.gov/education/fepp-levy).
- Wilson proposes using $3.5m of levy for school lunches for all kids (a rounding error worth of money)
- Hollingsworth (via anonymous leakers, real classy) complains that the mayor didn't work with council on the proposal
- Even Rob Saka is smart enough to get out of the way and vote for the mayor's proposal
- Hollingsworth, who is setting up to run against Wilson for mayor, builds council support to kill Wilson's proposal
- Hollingsworth creates totally new food proposal out of nowhere, doesn't consult the mayor's office
- Hollingsworth goes and gets a founding member of the Black Panthers in Seattle to support her new proposal (which absolutely reeks of political backscratching)
- Hollingsworth and Dionne Foster take photo smiling big right after killing Wilson's proposal
- Hollingsworth and Foster get a shit storm of criticism, their responses are borderline nonsensical
- Hollingsworth puts Wilson's proposal to a vote the next day, but now it takes money from the general fund (a pot of money already spoken for and in deficit)
Back to that post that person wrote about how maybe this will negatively affect the relationship between mayor and council going forward. Yea, probably. If I'm the mayor I think that the council president is gunning for my job and will take food out of the mouths of kids and fuck up the budget in order to deny me a win and the reason I would think that is because the council president is gunning for my job and tried to take food out of the mouths of kids and fucked up the budget in order to deny me a win.
My instincts as mayor would not be friendly. The mayor didn't take the gigantic L here, the council did. Maybe it's the council (Hollingsworth, Foster, Strauss) that should be eating some crow and tryin to fix their fuck up?