From Fox News: Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson, 43, said now that she has been elected mayor and is earning more money as a result, she no longer needs to ask her parents for help to pay the bills.
Wilson, who recently told CNN she thought embracing the help she got from her parents made her more “relatable” to Seattle voters, quipped on social media that, “after much deliberation and a grueling interview process,” she was “pleased” to announce that her higher salary as mayor will mean she no longer needs financial support from her parents.
During Wilson’s campaign, she credited her parents’ financial support for allowing her to run.
“My opponent’s campaign and the corporate PAC that tried to stop my election certainly cast it as a negative thing,” Wilson responded when asked whether she thought people in Seattle saw her parents’ financial support as a negative or a positive.
“I think that a lot of people of my generation, and younger and older, found it very relatable that during this stressful campaign my parents chipped in to help pay for the cost of their granddaughter’s daycare,” Wilson said.
Wilson argued that families help each other out, but said since not all families have that privilege, that’s why she’s “going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable housing for every family in this city.”
The report explains that Wilson previously lived in New York before she moved to Seattle in 2004. Thanks to her parents’ financial support, she left Oxford University debt-free, but she also left without a degree, as she dropped out only six weeks prior to graduation.
The 43-year-old mayor-elect is a progressive community organizer who has held a number of odd jobs, including barista, boatyard worker, apartment manager, lab technician, baker, construction worker and legal assistant. In 2011 she founded a nonprofit, the Transit Riders Union, and has been collecting a salary from that.
Wilson’s husband is allegedly unemployed, and they have one daughter together. Reportedly, Wilson does not own a car, and uses public transportation.
Now she is mayor of Seattle, a city with a population of around 816,000.
The average salary for mayor of Seattle is approximately $100,000 to $107,000 per year.
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