Seattle City Council Appoints John Okamoto to Replace Sally Clark

Meet your new city council member: John Okamoto Hg
It all came down to Bruce Harrell. After two rounds of voting, the Seattle City Council appointed longtime city bureaucrat and former Port of Seattle chief administrator John Okamoto.The council's more activist wing—Kshama Sawant, Mike O'Brien, and Nick Licata—had supported Low Income Housing Institute director Sharon Lee and longtime union activist and former HUD employee Sharon Maeda. Their more centrist counterparts, Tim Burgess,