All of the women on Seattle’s City Council, including socialist Kshama Sawant, came under attack after voting against vacating part of a waterfront street to build a sports stadium that would have cost city-dwellers maritime jobs as well as a huge chunk of tax money.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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