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Rapidly Growing Encampment Sits Unchallenged at Seattle Tourist Hotspot

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Shooting Up Beneath the Space Needle

Look at this debacle near the Seattle Space Needle, Gates Foundation, and The Museum of Pop Culture.

One of the cities busiest tourist hot spots is under siege by tents and a rapidly growing drug encampment.

Outgoing Mayor Bruce Harrell’s legacy on this massive street crisis is utter failure.

Will Mayor-elect Katie Wilson make the same mistake and allow the city to descend into more chaos?

Harrell’s Office Unresponsive

I reached out to Harrell’s top PR guy Jamie Housen about these pop-up drug encampments wrecking the city. Still no response.

Housen’s Previous PR Efforts

Housen is also the same guy who called a peaceful Christian concert earlier this year at Cal Anderson Park an “Extreme Right-Wing Rally.”

Harrell clearly surrounded himself with inept media liaisons.

Jonathan Choe

Journalist and Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial.