Speaking of the looney left, we’d like to introduce you to Seattle’s new mayor: Katie Wilson. She’s a 43-year-old community organizer who as of last year was still partially supported by her parents. We reported last year that this woman who has never had a job somehow was elected mayor.

A recent interview with Wilson has gone viral after she waved goodbye to well-off taxpayers  who are fleeing Washington state. The mayor dismissed claims that the rich are already leaving in response to the state’s new 9.9% income tax.

“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown,” Wilson dismissively said. “And if — the ones that leave, like, bye.” That was followed by a giggle.

This is your mayor, Seattle. Congrats.

Former State Senator Reuven Carlyle, who represented much of Seattle as a Democrat until 2023, was outraged.

As for the “super overblown claim” about the rich leaving, Fisher Investments has left the state for Texas to escape a new capital gains tax and Starbucks is moving a corporate hub to Nashville and taking 2,000 jobs there. Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Howard Schultz have both fled the state for no-income-tax Florida.