Katie Wilson isn’t letting Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell cruise to reelection.
Why it matters: The progressive organizer is neck and neck with Harrell in campaign fundraising heading into the Aug. 5 primary, which will whittle the pool of mayoral candidates to two.
What they’re saying: “That the fundraising is tied at this point is surprising,” local political consultant Sandeep Kaushik told Axios on Friday.
- Normally, you’d expect a “veteran incumbent mayor” like Harrell “to be able to vastly outraise an insurgent challenger coming from the left,” Kaushik said.
By the numbers: Both candidates’ campaigns had raised roughly $450,000 as of Friday — far more than anyone else in the race, records show…