{"id":2511315,"date":"2025-11-17T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-socialist-mayor-elect-of-seattle-didnt-earn-the-dsas-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:33:12","slug":"why-the-socialist-mayor-elect-of-seattle-didnt-earn-the-dsas-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-socialist-mayor-elect-of-seattle-didnt-earn-the-dsas-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the socialist mayor-elect of Seattle didn\u2019t earn the DSA\u2019s endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-the-socialist-mayor-elect-of-seattle-didnt-earn-the-dsas-endorsement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2511315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Katie Wilson, a self-identified socialist, recently won the seattle mayoral election in a narrow upset against incumbent Bruce Harrell. Despite her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >socialist identity adn campaign platform<\/a>, Wilson did not recieve the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the influential socialist institution that supported other successful candidates like New york City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. <\/p>\n<p>Wilson sought the endorsement of Seattle&#8217;s DSA chapter and participated in a thorough vetting process, including Q&#038;A sessions and a membership vote. Though, she was ultimately not endorsed as she refused to share her campaign data with the organization and declined to commit to endorsing other DSA-preferred candidates, which are key expectations for DSA-backed politicians. Even though Wilson received strong support from the Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Washington, she is not an official DSA member and her positions on issues like police defunding, rent control, and homeless encampments diverged somewhat from the DSA platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle DSA operates similarly to a political party, expecting endorsed candidates to collaborate closely and support the organization&#8217;s broader agenda. Wilson prioritized appealing to a broader electorate over openly emphasizing her socialist identity and avoided fully embracing all DSA demands.This contrasts with figures like Mamdani, who maintain close, regular ties with the DSA and align fully with its political commitments. Wilson&#8217;s win reflects both the rising influence of progressive politics in Seattle and the challenges of navigating relationships with established socialist organizations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-fdny-commissioner-to-resign-after-mamdani-wins-election\/\" title=\"Jewish FDNY commissioner to resign after ... wins ...\">socialist mayor-elect<\/a> of Seattle didn&rsquo;t earn the DSA&rsquo;s endorsement<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2400711\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Self-proclaimed socialist Katie Wilson <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3885633\/katie-wilson-wins-seattle-mayoral-election\/\">won the race for Seattle mayor<\/a> in a stunning upset this week without earning the endorsement of America&rsquo;s de facto socialist party, the same political force credited with aiding New York City Mayor-elect <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>&rsquo;s decisive victory.<\/p>\n<p>Against the odds, Wilson narrowly beat Democratic incumbent Bruce Harrell by a margin of fewer than 2,000 votes, following a final count of mail-in ballots on Wednesday. On the campaign trail, Wilson thought of replicating Mamdani&rsquo;s campaign strategy to squeeze out a win.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3888007\/detroit-area-republican-michael-bouchard-quarter-million-dollars-first-week-house-campaign\/\">Detroit-area Republican raises $250,000 in first week of House campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3887555\/jeffrey-epstein-arctic-frost-stock-trading-house-lengthy-to-do-list\/\">Epstein, Arctic Frost and stock trading: House has lengthy to-do list as it gets back to work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3888701\/trump-indiana-republicans-redistricting\/\">Trump rips &#8216;politically correct&#8217; Indiana Republicans for abandoning redistricting effort<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Months out from the election, Wilson began courting the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-socialists-of-america\">Democratic Socialists of America<\/a> behind the scenes after witnessing Mamdani win his Democratic primary in June, a &ldquo;Mamdani moment&rdquo; she had hoped to capture for herself by gaining the DSA&rsquo;s mobilization power, or &ldquo;ground game,&rdquo; as she put it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the socialist wing of the political Left ruled: Mamdani was in; Wilson was out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She sought the endorsement of the Seattle chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (SDSA), but they declined,&rdquo; Wilson&rsquo;s campaign manager Alex Gallo-Brown told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure why.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gallo-Brown noted that Wilson <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">received&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ-dvAKgdrA\/\">a near-unanimous endorsement<\/a>&nbsp;from the Young Democratic Socialists of America&rsquo;s University of Washington chapter, which is DSA&rsquo;s student-led section located<\/span> in Seattle. College students aside, Wilson lacked the DSA&rsquo;s formal support.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, Wilson sounded like a shoo-in. Similar to Mamdani, Wilson floated the idea of implementing &ldquo;public option&rdquo; grocery stores. Over the years, Wilson has worked a wide range of working-class jobs, including those of a barista, laborer, apartment manager, and boatyard worker. As the co-founder of the&nbsp;Transit Riders Union, she primarily uses public transit to get around Seattle. Above all, Wilson aims to usher &ldquo;the idea of socialism further into the mainstream of political life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3885633\/katie-wilson-wins-seattle-mayoral-election\/\"><strong>SEATTLE SOCIALIST RIDES MAMDANI WAVE TO WIN MAYORAL ELECTION AS CITY SEES LARGE PROGRESSIVE SHIFT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what was the hold-up? For one, she is short of DSA status. Although she identifies as a Democratic socialist, Wilson is not an official member of the DSA.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Katie Wilson is not now, nor has she ever been, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America,&rdquo; DSA&rsquo;s Seattle chapter told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle DSA, whose South King County branch backed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeforrenton.com\/endorsements\/\">a separate Seattle-area candidate<\/a> this election cycle, indeed did not endorse Wilson. Nor did the national DSA, which <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/app41ni7RJppgXEBL\/pag2BIuFz8gCxUMdB\/form\">only does so<\/a> if a candidate has already earned the endorsement of at least one local DSA chapter.<\/p>\n<p>And so, Wilson underwent an elaborate <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/seattledsa.org\/2021\/01\/seattle-dsa-endorsement-background-motivation\/\">vetting process<\/a> to decide whether she was worthy of Seattle DSA&rsquo;s stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 16, Seattle DSA held a memberwide <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/seattledsa.org\/event\/38242\/\">Q&amp;A session<\/a> with Wilson for the then-mayoral candidate to make her case on why she should receive the chapter&rsquo;s endorsement, ahead of a membership vote at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/seattledsa.org\/event\/october-general-membership-meeting-3\/\">October general meeting<\/a> on whether to officially endorse Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson additionally answered questions before the chapter&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/seattledsa.org\/committees\/electoral\/\">Electoral Working Group<\/a> steering committee concerning her endorsement eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1sk70O-zu4VwVYq8rsziLXcvfiqwdCRTj2p7eBNWLcl8\/edit?usp=drive_link\">a transcript<\/a> of their Sept. 16 meeting, some committee members expressed skepticism about Wilson&rsquo;s commitment to the socialist cause, noting that she only started identifying as a socialist in the past year or two, at least openly, while making clear to the public her political differences with DSA.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am curious what it means to you when you say that you&rsquo;re a socialist, what metrics you use to claim that label, and how does that translate in the policies that you&rsquo;ll push for in office?&rdquo; asked Alexander Mayben, the secretary of Seattle DSA.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said she has been a socialist ever since she moved to Seattle more than 20 years ago, but added that she strategically refrains from using the label to avoid scaring off more moderate-minded voters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that I don&rsquo;t emblazon that on my forehead. Part of the reason for that is what my socialism tells me,&rdquo; Wilson explained. &ldquo;What I should be doing is figuring out how to organize ordinary, non-ideological people around the bread-and-butter issues that affect their lives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that I want to keep it a secret,&rdquo; she clarified in response to a follow-up question on her socialist identity, adding, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not, at this point, planning to write &lsquo;socialist&rsquo; on my website in big letters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the candidate screening protocols, Wilson also completed Seattle DSA&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1O09lnZ-Gmssx-Iyh8Fn8G04rjnO6sxvO\/view\">endorsement questionnaire<\/a>, where she offered similarly tepid responses to pointed questions about her allegiance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson speaks during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-race-tightens-in-north-carolina-as-democrat-beasley-closes-on-budd\/\" title=\"Senate Race Tightens in North Carolina as Democrat Beasley Closes on Budd\">election night watch party<\/a> on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Seattle. (Nick Wagner\/The Seattle Times via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked if she would identify herself as a Democratic socialist in campaign literature, Wilson said she&rsquo;d include Seattle DSA&rsquo;s logo on her website&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonforseattle.com\/endorse\">list of endorsements<\/a>. Prompted to declare whether she would &ldquo;promote and fight for the demands of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.dsausa.org\/\">DSA national platform<\/a>,&rdquo; Wilson said there is &ldquo;significant overlap&rdquo; between their objectives.<\/p>\n<p>However, they differed on several key issues.<strong> <\/strong>Defunding the police, for instance, was not part of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonforseattle.com\/platform\">Wilson&rsquo;s campaign platform<\/a>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that defunding police budgets has proved to be a helpful frame in thinking about how to reduce harmful overpolicing or improve true community safety,&rdquo; Wilson wrote on the questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>She supports rent control, but it &ldquo;depends&rdquo; on the details of the proposal, as these policies &ldquo;can be designed well or poorly.&rdquo; Wilson was not unequivocally in favor of ending the city&rsquo;s sweeps of homeless encampments either.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are also going to be instances where we are probably going to have to require people to move,&rdquo; Wilson said, citing homeless people camping outside the entrance to a light rail station. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s just a kind of a reality, both a practical reality and a political reality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After all the cross-examination, what was the chapter&rsquo;s final ruling on Wilson?<\/p>\n<p>Seattle DSA told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Wilson ultimately did not commit to all of the group&rsquo;s candidacy requirements&mdash;the dealbreaker being that she was unwilling to share her campaign data with the chapter or endorse every candidate that Seattle DSA endorses.<\/p>\n<p>The national DSA, which is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, is not a designated political party with a ballot line. Still, the chapter said, Seattle DSA aspires to operate like a political party.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Political parties share data between campaigns. They expect their candidates to endorse other candidates within that political party,&rdquo; Seattle DSA said. &ldquo;Katie Wilson articulated clearly, in the process of seeking Seattle DSA&rsquo;s endorsement, that she did not commit to these things.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On the candidate questionnaire form, Wilson indicated she was reluctant to turn over electoral, field, and volunteer data, including emails, phone numbers, and donor lists, among other records, as requested.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the people who have entrusted their information to my campaign would be very happy if we handed it over to Seattle DSA without their consent,&rdquo; Wilson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed at the September committee meeting on why she was so adamant about not sharing data, Wilson was more direct.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I definitely don&rsquo;t want to just hand over all my campaign data,&rdquo; Wilson told the elections committee. &ldquo;Again, I just don&rsquo;t think that the people who&rsquo;ve signed up for the campaign would like me handing it over to another organization. It&rsquo;s just not what they signed up for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Many other DSA chapters <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/midwestsocialist.com\/2022\/12\/14\/data-sharing-and-theories-of-change-needle\/\">practice <\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/midwestsocialist.com\/2022\/12\/14\/data-sharing-and-theories-of-change-needle\/\">data sharing<\/a>&nbsp;as a t<\/span>actic toward transforming DSA into a party-like operation, or a&nbsp;&ldquo;proto-party,&rdquo;&nbsp;by expanding its recruitment infrastructure and, in turn, its organizing base.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion with Wilson, it was mentioned that she wanted a place to &ldquo;funnel&rdquo; campaign volunteers after the election. Seattle DSA, of course, hoped the chapter could collect its manpower. Wilson softened slightly on that front, acknowledging that she, as a longtime community organizer and &ldquo;coalition builder,&rdquo; knows what it takes to scale up a movement.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, committee co-chair Chanpreet Singh said endorsees are expected to cross-endorse other DSA candidates. Doing so, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250930140641\/https:\/\/socialistcall.com\/2022\/10\/20\/nyc-dsa-building-a-party-1234-plan\/\">DSA alliance-building framework<\/a>, essentially forms a socialist bloc, allowing the organization to enter elections as a single, unified slate.<\/p>\n<p>Under this pact, Wilson would be expected to back the chapter&rsquo;s candidate of choice in the upcoming 2027 city council elections.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3880175\/democratic-socialists-capture-city-councils-across-usa\/\"><strong>DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS QUIETLY CAPTURE CITY COUNCILS ACROSS AMERICA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As mayor, you&rsquo;ll also need support on the council if you win,&rdquo; Singh told Wilson. &ldquo;We will want to run someone for council in 2027.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson was not swayed. &ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think I can commit to that,&rdquo; she countered. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s likely that I would want to endorse the same person [as DSA&rsquo;s pick], but I don&rsquo;t think I can outsource my decision-making on endorsing other candidates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>DSA endorsements typically have strings attached. If elected, endorsed candidates are expected to reciprocate by supporting DSA&rsquo;s selection of political hopefuls once in office. Another &ldquo;expectation&rdquo; is that newly elected endorsees will meet each month with the DSA&rsquo;s chapter-specific <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/seattledsa.org\/series\/washington-state-socialists-in-office-committee\">Socialists in Office committees<\/a> to discuss legislative priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a pretty big commitment that Zohran has committed to,&rdquo; Wilson was told, after saying she couldn&rsquo;t promise a standing appointment with the DSA at this time.<\/p>\n<p>She said her office would determine &ldquo;cadences of communication with many organizations we want to have working relationships with, including Seattle DSA,&rdquo; but in terms of one-on-one confabs, &ldquo;I cannot commit to monthly meetings with me personally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In neighboring Oregon, the four DSA members seated on the 12-person Portland City Council conference regularly meet with the chapter&rsquo;s Socialist in Office committee, an arrangement that no other external organization has at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Through these committees, which are designed to keep their respective officeholders in check, DSA wields significant influence over the officials it has helped elect.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Mitch Green, one-fourth of the socialist quartet comprising Portland&rsquo;s chief policymaking body, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/one-thing-has-changed-in-portland-city-hall-the-socialists-are-setting-the-agenda\/\">told<\/a> <em>Willamette Week<\/em> that while the DSA does not issue &ldquo;marching orders,&rdquo; he will get an earful if he acts &ldquo;way out of line with the values of the organization.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to put someone in office who is going to bring DSA with them to office,&rdquo; Olivia Katbi, co-chairwoman of the Portland DSA, told <em>Willamette Week<\/em>. &ldquo;Our councilors are DSA. So what they are doing is DSA, until further notice, unless we say it&rsquo;s not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3878305\/democratic-socialist-candidates-cruised-to-victory-in-a-dozen-races\/\"><strong>SOCIALIST CANDIDATES CRUISED TO VICTORY IN OVER A DOZEN RACES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across the country, Democratic socialists occupying positions at all levels of government abide by similar obligations to carry out the DSA&rsquo;s agenda. Mamdani, as a New York state assemblyman, met with DSA leadership as frequently as once a week to review pending bills and decide which ones to support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Seattle&#8217;s socialist mayor-elect lacked DSA endorsement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"featured_media":2511316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25309193924973.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4602,7035,12428],"class_list":["post-2511315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-mayor","tag-seattle","tag-socialism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25309193924973.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511319,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511315\/revisions\/2511319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}