Mayor Durkan Will Not Seek Second Term

 Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has announced that she will not seek a second term next year.  The mayor has had an impossibly difficult year, as Seattle has faced a number of problems compounded by the COVID19 and the riots after the George Floyd killing last Spring.

The Riots, shown unedited on TV, garnered harsh criticism by both sides, with one side speaking of her actions as harsh and another saying that they were not harsh enough.  A group of protestors gathered at Durkan's house, whose address had been kept secret and a sit in was held at city hall.  It seemed like no one would stand up to support her. 

At the beginning of  the Durkan administration, the city had a rosy outlook with the expanding of Amazon and the granting of an NHL franchise to Seattle.  However, a televised expose on the city's homeless, although controversial, did it's share to dampen the optimism in the area.