Socialist Kshama Sawant was elected to the Seattle City Council in November of 2013, the first socialist in a major legislative body in the US in quite a long time.
Kshama Sawant Elected
If Boeing executives insist on relocating the factories out of Washington, the only response we can have to reject this blackmail is to tell the CEOs if you want to go, you can go. The machines are here, the workers are here, let us take this entire productive activity into democratic public ownership and retool the machines to produce mass transit.