{"id":964132,"date":"2021-11-03T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964132"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:28:55","slug":"one-year-after-chaz-republican-ann-davison-wins-seattle-city-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-year-after-chaz-republican-ann-davison-wins-seattle-city-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year After &#039;CHAZ&#039;, Republican Ann Davison Wins Seattle City Attorney"},"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%2Fone-year-after-chaz-republican-ann-davison-wins-seattle-city-attorney%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=964132&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 class=\"subheading\">Republican Ann Davison was elected City Attorney of Seattle on Tuesday, a rare Republican win in the liberal city \u2014 just over a year after parts of it were taken over by left-wing activists in the \u201cCapitol Hill Autonomous Zone\u201d (CHAZ).<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Seattle Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/republican-ann-davison-leading-abolitionist-nicole-thomas-kennedy-in-seattle-city-attorney-race\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>Republican Ann Davison held a strong 58% to 41% lead in the race for Seattle city attorney, with returns Tuesday showing voters rejecting the brash language of her police abolitionist opponent, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, in favor of Davison\u2019s law-and-order stance.<\/p>\n<p>No race in Tuesday\u2019s city election was more fraught with the potential for unpredictable consequences than the race for Seattle\u2019s official lawyer, who traditionally has prosecuted minor crimes and provided legal advice and defense for the city and its employees, including police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Local NBC affiliate King 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/ann-davison-leads-nicole-thomas-kennedy-in-bid-for-seattle-city-attorney\/281-0946588f-99a1-4a2b-8128-197d905d361d\">reported<\/a> Davison as saying that \u201cthe City Attorney\u2019s Office is not for setting policy or a \u2018place for radical agenda\u2019,\u201d but rather \u201ca place to provide impartial advice to those elected to create policy and to maintain laws so there is public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18596626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Ann-Davison-5x4-1-1020x1275-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18596626 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ann-Davison-5x4-1-1020x1275-1-e1635978318654.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Davison\" width=\"739\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ann Davison<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Local police chief Carmen Best, whose officers were ejected from the CHAZ, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2020\/08\/12\/seattle-police-chief-best-retirement-due-to-overarching-lack-of-respect-for-the-officers\/\">retired<\/a> early after the city council decided to defund the police by 50%, beginning with staff cuts last year.<\/p>\n<p>The CHAZ, also known as the \u201cCapitol Hill Occupied Protest\u201d (CHOP), grew out of Black Lives Matter protests and saw widespread lawlessness, including murder, before being cleared out after protesters marched to the mayor\u2019s own residence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Ann Davison was elected City Attorney of Seattle on Tuesday, a rare Republican win in the liberal city \u2014 just over a year after parts of it were taken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964132","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}