Black leaders call on Seattle mayoral candidate M. Lorena Gonzlez to pull 'racist' ad saying Bruce
Harrell sided with sex abusers
With a little over a week remaining before votes are counted, Seattles mayoral race exploded into vitriol Saturday as rivals Bruce Harrell and M. Lorena González traded accusations of racism and enabling sexual abusers.
The spark was a new attack ad aired by Gonzálezs campaign, which accuses Harrell of siding with sexual abusers including ex-Mayor Ed Murray a late hit that was blasted as desperate and racist by Harrell and allies including Black community leaders.
At a virtual news conference organized by Harrell on Saturday, speakers demanded that City Council President González pull the commercial, which juxtaposes images of Harrell with media accounts of the Murray sex-abuse scandal. The ad features a white rape survivor who says she could never vote for Harrell.
James Bible, a civil-rights attorney and former head of the local NAACP who donated $550 to the González campaign, called the ad gut-wrenching and a race to the bottom at the news conference. He added: Lorena, you just demonstrated you would do anything to win.
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