Seattle’s Katie Wilson could teach Mamdani about – Latest News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani could stand to study a management lesson from his socialist comrade, Seattle’s Mayor Katie Wilson.
Wilson walked back waving “bye” to sad millionaires, slamming Starbucks and pushing for a boycott of the Emerald City espresso giant.
As mayor-elect, she’d embraced hanging baristas with a harsh, “I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.”
Mayor Katie Wilson speaks at a protest and rally in opposition to immigration enforcement Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. AP
And simply final month she laughed off the concept “tax the rich” hikes may immediate a high-earner exodus: “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye.”
Now that the company’s trying to grow its headquarters far-off in Nashville, Tenn., and could give up its birthplace altogether, she’s having second ideas.
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“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” Seattle’s socialist mayor sheepishly advised the New York Times.
Yes: Flipping off the people and companies which can be the lifeblood of your metropolis is, effectively, simply dumb.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes a youngster care announcement at Garden School on May 19, 2026, in New York City. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
What would it not take for Mamdani to confess that?
Yes, he’s been assembly with prime CEOs like Jamie Dimon and David Solomon to privately attempt to take the sting out of his name-and-shame video exterior the home of Citadel’s Ken Griffin.
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But he isn’t publicly regretting portray a goal on a finance titan’s residence in a metropolis that’s already seen one prime exec assassinated and the killing’s cheerleaders given press passes by City Hall.
And the mayor continues to dismiss discuss of “millionaire flight” attributable to an elevated tax burden as “imagined.”
We doubt Mayor Wilson was in any respect honest in offering her regrets, however a minimum of she’s attempting; Mamdani’s too in love along with his own image to swallow his pleasure for the great of the town he claims to like.
