FACT: In the legal field, there is the very basic concept of an "indispensable party." Basically, an indispensable party is so essential to an issue that if you leave them out, you can’t reach a real resolution...

...Think of it like this: you and your neighbor are fighting. To resolve the issue, you must engage your neighbor in the dialog...

NOW, in Seattle, @decrimseattle & KCEN—coalitions representing the support of 100s of community groups & 10s of thousands of community members—have been spearheading the call to defund SPD by at least 50%.

Most recently @decrimseattle & KCEN joined forces to develop a community-led participatory budget process, to make sure that COMMUNITY controls how our taxpayer dollars are spent in 2021—not the mayor’s office

In essence @decrimseattle and KCEN are “indispensable parties” to any City conversation dealing with the SPD budget or movement demands more generally

NOW @mayorjenny a self-proclaimed “lawyer’s lawyer” with literal decades of experience in practice is intimately familiar with the indispensable party concept...

Yet @MayorJenny recently held a meeting to address this movement’s “demands” but distinctly did not invite or notify ANY ONE from @decrimseattle or KCEN--clear indispensable parties.