Mayor Katie Wilson will be served with charges after two Seattle residents filed a recall petition alleging she’s “derelict in her duties for public safety of the city of Seattle.”
Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud filed the petition with King County Elections on Tuesday, citing Wilson’s public safety approach to areas such as Aurora Avenue and Little Saigon, her move to turn off CCTV cameras in the Stadium District after the World Cup, and asking the police chief to resign two weeks ago.
“I don’t have anything against her personally. She is just in way above her head,” Jacobson told KUOW. She’s married to Osterud and said she voted for Wilson’s opponent Bruce Harrell last year. “If we have to have another almost three and a half years of this, this city’s going to be downhill like you wouldn’t believe.”…