I want to highlight one grievance here for which the mayor is asking the council to investigate @cmkshama: She allegedly organized a march to the mayor's house. https://twitter.com/KromanDavid/status/1278002317711687682

"Marching to the mayor's house" is an extremely common form of protest in other cities, and indeed used to be in Seattle. Durkan has been able to keep the location of her house private largely on the grounds that she received threats while she was US attorney.

It's easy to forget recent history. The locations of the previous elected mayors' houses were well-known. Ed Murray lived on 10th Ave. Mike McGinn lived in a highly disclosed location in Greenwood and held press conferences in his own yard. Greg Nickels lived in West Seattle.

Like other reporters, I have respected the mayor's request to keep the location of her home private. I don't know the nature of the threats she received, but I assume they were serious if she was able to get her address redacted from all public documents.

On the other hand, mayors live in cities, and when their location is a metaphorically gated community with private parks (a thing I did not know existed in Seattle), that says something about how they view their place in that city. I can see why protesters find this relevant.

But back to Sawant: I don't know if she told protesters where the mayor lives. But if she did, that isn't illegal. And I have 100% confidence that the protesters would have found out another way—if not that day, then soon.

Getting mad at Sawant (whose antics I often find tiresome) is deflection. People march to mayors' houses when they oppose city policies. It happens in San Francisco; Oakland; New York City; Los Angeles; St. Louis; and now here.