Seattle mayoral candidate, Katie Wilson wants voters to know she is just an ordinary gal who shops at the Goodwill. I mean, heck, she barely can afford to live in The Emerald City.

Wilson, 43, stands in “stark contrast” to incumbent, Bruce Harrell. However does she afford to live in a city with skyrocketing rent, insane taxes, in a state with one of the highest fuel prices per gallon?

Thought you would never ask. How does a 43 year-old mom make a living in this city, anyway? Are you ready?

She gets money from her parents.

They send me a check periodically to help with the child care expenses.”-Katie Wilson

After all. daycare for her toddler costs around $2,200 a month. She did not say how much her parents contribute but, who’s keeping track? She isn’t! When pressed, she said “money arrives every couple of months”.

Her parents, both university professors and scientists, are still paying to support Katie Wilson and her family. Have I mentioned this woman is 43 years old? Of course she wants to “jumpstart tax” large businesses-or as a true socialist would say-take from the rich. She has no concept of how money is made. She and her “activist husband” who has not held a real job in, from what we can see, a vast majority of his life on this earth, Scott Meyers, are completely content to have Ma and Pa Wilson send a check from Binghamton, New York every other month to help with rent in Capitol Hill and to keep Scott home making pizza and bagels. Whatta man, whatta man, whatta mighty good man!

This, somehow, according to KUOW, makes Katie Wilson “sensible”. She’s “no frills”. But she recognizes her privilege of growing up in a secure, academic household. She was the salutatorian of her high school class. She attended Oxford University in England, only to drop out six weeks before graduating to travel to Seattle by Greyhound Bus. If anything says privilege and not understanding how money works, it’s this right here. Parents fork out college tuition for years to only have their child not graduate? If my parents coughed up the cash for a college degree at an elite university such as Oxford and I did not finish, I doubt I’d see another dime from them. But, professors who are democrats (and probably socialists) have money to burn, so I suppose they could justify this every-other-month expenditure as care for their grandchild.

What did Katie Wilson “major” in at Oxford? So glad you’ve asked. She studied physics and philosophy “to get to the bottom of things”.

But, Seattle is such a hard city to live in. And Katie Wilson wants to “get to the bottom of it” (as if it hasn’t hit rock-bottom already) and make it easier for those who live in the city to afford to live there, even though she needs some assistance from her parental units/birthing persons (because “science”) to do the very same.

It’s always these spoiled, little rich kids. In fact, some may argue Katie Wilson’s political stance and life history that largely resembles that of fellow trust-fund socialist,Zohran Mamdani.

I’m a Democrat, I’m a socialist, fine with being called a democratic socialist. It’s really just more of a belief system or an orientation for me.”-Katie Wilson

And for a socialist with no money, she is floating a billion dollar bond for social housing. Read: She ain’t paying for it!

Progressive policies are inflationary. Here are just some of the factors that have gone into this $8 slice of pizza — it's not just housing costs.

1) Massively high minimum wage (highest in nation)
2) Business & Occupancy tax hikes
3) Upzoning, which has massively increased… pic.twitter.com/j2NIDXPMam

— stevemur (@stevemur) August 15, 2025

But, unlike some Seattle residents, Katie Wilson might have enough dough for an $8-dollar slice of pizza to waste on a campaign reel. Her mom and dad provide a stipend.

There is also the financial questionability of Wilson’s nonprofit, Transit Riders Union.

In 2019, after failing to file its annual report on time, the secretary of state wrote a letter to the Transit Riders Union with the heading “Administrative Dissolution,” notifying the organization that it was “no longer in active status.”

In 2022, it successfully filed reinstatement paperwork.

The Transit Riders Union website lists its funders, but only for 2015 and 2016. That year, all the donors were local unions with the exception of the MLK County Labor Council and Resist Foundation — “a foundation that supports people’s movements for justice and liberation,” according to its website.

Federal tax forms published by ProPublica indicate that the Transit Riders Union had revenues from contributors of $198,395 in 2024, but expenses of $219,916. None of the key employees or officers including Wilson reported receiving a salary.

The group posted losses of $38,781 in 2023 and $46,779 in 2022, according to federal tax forms. That same year, Wilson reported receiving $70,552 as ‘campaign coordinator’ but had no salary in her role as president/general secretary.”The Seattle Times

These are the progressives, the ones who are still living off of Mom and Dad. Do we want them effecting policy? Still, people want to know about her. Right down to her Plain Jame look:

I will say the hardest thing for me about the campaign is my wardrobe, as I talked about in the Goodwill video that we made, because I am not someone who has ever dressed professionally in my life. Just the importance of how much people care about what you look like. And for me, I’m always just like, ‘Well, the job is being the mayor, you gotta have a vision for the city. You gotta to be good in policy, you gotta to be good leader, but who the fuck cares is what I’m wearing?’ But people care. And so just the number of people who will be giving me advice on my wardrobe or be like, ‘You need to iron your collar,’ or whatever. So that kind of thing is very weird. Just the feeling of being scrutinized continually by people I don’t know, and the knowledge that people are chattering behind my back about my clothes is just very, very weird.”-Katie Wilson, realchangenews.org

It’s not weird, Katie. It’s called looking presentable. But, most liberals don’t even bother anymore. It was on full display for us this past Saturday. Back to the collar. Yes, if running for public office, you SHOULD iron your damn collar. You SHOULD wear the damn suit. Have a little respect.

Is this woman that clueless? And we thought it was just economics…

Cut the campaign rhetoric and truth stretching. Is a lobbyist from a small, financially murky nonprofit ready to take the helm, connect with constituents across the city, craft budgets, hire department directors, and set the tone from everything from policing to street work?”-The Seattle Times

That was The Seattle Times talking. They are endorsing Bruce Harrell. For them to do this, it’s THAT bad. The Seattle Stranger loves her-which is also saying something, although not in the least bit surprising:

She took three essential gifts from her parents, and in spite of them: a refusal to trust authority just because it’s authority, an ambivalence to the ideas of status and money, and a refusal to follow her parents into the world of academia.”-Hannah Murphy Winter

Only three? Seems like the gifts keep coming! Like, a check every other month or so.

Former mayor Jenny Durkan owned a $7.5 million mansion on Whidbey Island. Harrell bought his Seward Park home in 2011 for $1.4 million. Ed Murray owned his home on Capitol Hill and a vacation home on the Peninsula. Wilson and Myers rent a one-bedroom apartment in Capitol Hill.”-Hannah Murphy Winter

An apartment her mommy and daddy help pay for in the once CHAZ/CHOP. I’m sure she loved the sounds of The Summer of Love and went out and made chalk drawings in her 5-layered face mask. But The Stranger and all of the progressives of Seattle still love her. Daughter of Scientists. Oxford Dropout. (She’s sooooo smart.) Wrinkled-collar, rich kid. Wife of Bagel Boy. Boycotter of debates.

Recipient of parental checks.

Seattle won’t be dying if she gets elected. It will be straight-up dead.

Photo Credit: Wilson for Seattle Campaign, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons