Kshama Sawant vs. Pamela Banks: Grandiose designs vs. local grounding

Cheers and whoops made Seattle U’s Piggott Auditorium  sound as if two football rivals were holding simultaneous pep rallies Sunday night, but this was a debate in the increasingly heated District 3 City Council race between incumbent Kshama Sawant and Seattle Urban League CEO Pamela Banks. On stage, the set-to featured a collision between the grandiose vision of the militant socialist Sawant — “We need a cultural transformation of our city” — and the locally g