Dem who welcomed socialist mayor’s ‘change’
now sounding alarm over billionaire exodus:
‘Gravely concerned
Fox News,
by
Peter Pinedo
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
5/19/2026 8:28:39 AM
A Democratic city council member who once welcomed the “change” from socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is now admitting he is “gravely concerned” about the business exodus affecting the major American city.
This comes as blue states like Washington and New York face a business exodus in favor of more market-friendly red states. Starbucks, a major player in Seattle’s business scene, recently announced a major expansion into Nashville while simultaneously cutting Seattle-based corporate jobs, a move that has intensified concerns about Seattle’s business climate and economic competitiveness.
Wilson, a self-proclaimed socialist, recently went viral for laughing off the exodus of billionaires and business leaders from her city,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/19/2026 8:35:15 AM (No. 2105970)
What a twit. But then he is a DimoTwit Party member. It is not that they don't know no better. Oh no, it is that they CHOOSE no better. Their only hope is truly in the Lord. Because these have been in thrall to the Father of Lies for ever so long.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/19/2026 8:37:12 AM (No. 2105971)
There are too many people who view wealth as an evil thing. A lot of those views stem from jealousy. God does not oppose wealth - he opposes people who put wealth before Him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 5/19/2026 8:39:09 AM (No. 2105973)
Play stupid games...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/19/2026 9:17:26 AM (No. 2105987)
These blue state and cities that want to supper tax the very rich reminds me of the tale of the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. For those who have not heard the story, there was a goose that laid solid gold eggs every month. But the people of the village got greedy. They killed the goose to get all the eggs at once. But when they cut it open there were no golden eggs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/19/2026 9:21:55 AM (No. 2105988)
How bizzarre. One wonders if a goobernment decides to vilify a specific group and then create laws to prosecute that group, would not those most capable of leaving leave? And those that can't leave live under expanding legal persecution and enforce. Eventually leading to the total dehumanization that leads to most disgusting and vile forms of 'cleansing'. It happened once before in a very enlightened 'free' society in the 1930s. Is one witnessing history repeating itself?
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Correct, OP. The 43rd time's the charm, right?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
qr4j 5/19/2026 9:34:39 AM (No. 2105992)
Just ban billionaires from leaving NYC or Seattle. Put them in prison and just tax the hell out of them until you’ve extracted the last ounce of blood. I mean, that’s what socialists (who often then become communists) do. It’s robbery of personal life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness sanctified by the government. Holy, holy, holy is the Leftist state. But I say to hell with that!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/19/2026 9:48:42 AM (No. 2105999)
FTA:he was “look[ing] forward to partnering with her to build a thriving, inclusive Seattle that uplifts working families, expands universal preschool for all, ends food deserts, and creates safer, more connected neighborhoods
This is all left-wing claptrap. More than anything else a city needs a thriving business community and needs laws enforced against criminals. A socialist will never do either.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/19/2026 9:52:23 AM (No. 2106002)
Well, DUH! This is why communist countries do everything they can to keep people from leaving!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/19/2026 9:58:59 AM (No. 2106006)
A once beautiful city and state, reduced to a 3rd world hellhole!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/19/2026 10:17:42 AM (No. 2106016)
They don't want billionaires, but they want their money. Just confiscate their wealth! Problem solved! I'm not being sarcastic. There are people in our government that think that way.
"We decide what they can keep" - Nancy Pelosi
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
varkdriver 5/19/2026 10:28:28 AM (No. 2106023)
#1: Yes, they have been in thrall of the Prince Of Darkness, as opposed to the Prince of Dorkness (the great Albert Gore, Jr, the inconvenient Man Bear Pig)
I seem to recall that Mayor Bloomberg was giddy over Rush Limbaugh moving out of Manhattan to West Palm. He gleefully said to a crowd of leftist losers: "If I'd known that I could get rid of Rush by raising taxes, I would have raised them a LONG time ago!" And the crowd of imbeciles cheered! The amount of revenue that NYC lost by that one taxpayer alone was staggering. Keep on doin' it, Katie. Pretty soon the population of Seattle will be about 6, all of them indigent
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/19/2026 11:05:33 AM (No. 2106028)
Saka is a two faced liberal. When Wilson was elected, he virtue signaled about an “inclusive Seattle that uplifts working families, expands universal preschool for all, ends food deserts, and creates safer, more connected neighborhoods across our city.” Then reality hit Saka and he became “gravely concerned.” Translation, Saka is concerned he might lose his next election.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 5/19/2026 11:20:29 AM (No. 2106034)
LOL! Predicted, and we laugh when you fools are too stupid to grasp that these predictions are accurate.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mariboo72 5/19/2026 12:08:50 PM (No. 2106056)
The worse news - the blue states will stay blue, the red states will turn purple.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DougTN 5/19/2026 12:14:02 PM (No. 2106058)
It is stunning how stupid and arrogant people like Katie Wilson are regarding empirical economics, human nature, and history. Pick up a durn book on actual economic history and stop thinking you are braver and smarter than the last moron that went down this path.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/19/2026 12:19:27 PM (No. 2106060)
Democratic Socialists have an extreme deficiency in the ability to think ahead. They have the ability to win an election on wild promises but then die a painful death by those same promises.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jasmine 5/19/2026 1:12:46 PM (No. 2106075)
Too funny. Democrats have a history of forgetting who works for whom. They can compel and confiscate higher taxes from the producers, but that power only goes so far because businesses have the option of leaving. Why stick around and be unappreciated, demonized, and lectured on your duty to be fleeced, when you can be welcomed with open arms by moving your businesses to a friendlier state? For some reason, the commie/socialist/Marxist class expects their targets to put up with bullying when they can pick up and leave. Politicians are limited in what they can take before the businesses move on. The funny thing is, the left never sees it coming until it's too late. Saying "Bye" is probably the best way to convince a business it's time to leave.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/19/2026 1:24:06 PM (No. 2106078)
"Bye."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/19/2026 1:39:39 PM (No. 2106085)
I hope he enjoys the next few years. He voted for it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/19/2026 1:56:42 PM (No. 2106090)
And ANOTHER Communist 'Rat gets elected mayor by promising Free Stuff to the Gimme-Dats, raises taxes and demonizes the people who pay the taxes that make the city run, then laugh as the productive people leave.
We've seen this play before.
It does not turn out well.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
aripeny 5/19/2026 4:02:04 PM (No. 2106113)
Sometimes you get what you elected.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/19/2026 4:16:34 PM (No. 2106118)
Starbucks just laid off 61 headquarters employees and are "streamlining" their store locations there. Starbucks is an iconic and successful business, but Seattle had better make sure they do all they can to keep them. If SB leaves, others will follow and some are leaving now. The red states will benefit but, as others have said, we don't need any leftist ideas from the people who don't understand that the leftist ideas is what made them decide that they wanted to move in the first place, or they will end plucking their golden goose to death.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/19/2026 8:38:59 PM (No. 2106173)
They are figuring out one by one that what they need more than democratic socialism is money. All of the free stuff isn't free.
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In a related story, the democrat realized that the ATM card he shared with his family was in reality draining his bank account. He thought it was free money.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
janjan 5/20/2026 7:18:49 AM (No. 2106272)
Capitalism has its usefulness when you need to confiscate people’s money to give to other people to convince them to vote for you. If you look at the living conditions of those who want to be your masters it makes more sense. Bernie Sanders has never had an honest job in his life but he owns 3 houses.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 5/20/2026 7:58:03 AM (No. 2106314)
Dems simply do not understand that no one is going to work his/her tail off so they can hand most of their money over to someone who refuses to work or puts in minimal effort.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/20/2026 8:33:16 AM (No. 2106334)
It's going to take a serious, "We're sorry.", from all those Communist cities in order for ANY corporate entity, once gone, to ever move back... and that's after they first roll back 90% of their punitive corporate taxes funding their socialist |benefits buffet." Good luck changing all that overnight too, of course, not having any money in the budget makes that all but a foregone conclusion. The leftist loons of the Democrat Plantation have done such damage that may literally require generations to undo. It goes to show what happens to an electorate when a large enough portion of the entitled masses have no ability to critically analyze a situation and honestly evaluate the downstream effects of potential decisions BEFORE they are made. In other words, this is happening in all the "Blue-Zones" because they long ago lost their, "Common-Sense" gene, replacing it with the "Moral Superiority" gene.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/20/2026 10:12:22 AM (No. 2106423)
One of the BIGGEST FAFO events in HISTORY!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 5/20/2026 11:01:28 AM (No. 2106460)
“inclusive Seattle that uplifts working families, expands universal preschool for all, ends food deserts, and creates safer, more connected neighborhoods across our city.” You mean the way it was before the Democrats made it so both parents had to work and therefore needed daycare, increased crime so stores had to close, brought in millions of illegals and homeless to clog the sidewalks? Ya sounds like a plan.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/20/2026 1:00:47 PM (No. 2106518)
Why do the voters in blue cities/states vote for these socialists to run their government? It's because the Public School System has turned out stupid kids who only know about Leftist causes. The Public School System hasn't trained these kids to think rationally, read or know our Constitution. All in all, for many years our school system has turned out puppets who are brained washed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/20/2026 7:15:11 PM (No. 2106634)
Too late!
Now comes the storm.
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