Public insurance policies have penalties. Microsoft is pulling their main ‘Construct’ convention out of Seattle as a result of their members are uninterested in tripping over homeless folks and junkies.
So now town will lose a serious income as a result of they refuse to implement legal guidelines and preserve town clear and alluring.
Consider all of the working folks within the metropolis who’re going to lose wages and ideas as a result of the leaders place extra worth on the dregs of society who contribute nothing of worth.
#BREAKING: I’ve obtained the interior memo outlining causes behind Microsoft Construct’s(@Microsoft) exit from Seattle. That is an absolute indictment on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s(@MayorofSeattle) administration and exhibits his failure to get the homeless drug disaster underneath management. https://t.co/T5P4wyNrv0 pic.twitter.com/aI50Nnkza2
— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) June 7, 2025
From the Post Millennial:
In keeping with an inside electronic mail obtained by journalist Jonathan Choe of the Discovery Institute, Go to Seattle—town’s official tourism and advertising and marketing group—was knowledgeable that Microsoft will cancel its 2026 occasion and launch all future holds for the convention in Seattle. The e-mail, titled “DEFINITE BOOKING CANCELLATION NOTICE,” stated the choice was closely influenced by the expertise of firm management and attendees strolling the downtown core between the Hyatt Regency and the Arch Constructing on eighth Avenue.
“The purchasers cited the final uncleanliness of the road scene, visibility of people participating in drug use, and unhoused people, together with the recurring tent within the Arch Tunnel,” the e-mail acknowledged. “Microsoft has beforehand addressed these issues and Go to Seattle has been working actively with SPD, DSA [Downtown Seattle Association], the Care workforce, and others… Sadly for Construct, it was a contributing issue to their ultimate resolution to maneuver out of Seattle.”
Microsoft’s Construct convention has lengthy served as a showcase of Seattle’s innovation and international tech prominence. It usually brings in 1000’s of builders and tech insiders from around the globe and has been a signature occasion for town’s financial system. Its departure is a serious blow to Seattle’s struggling tourism and conference enterprise, particularly as downtown continues to battle the aftermath of the pandemic, rising crime, and a homelessness disaster that metropolis officers have up to now did not comprise.
That is horrible information for the working, legislation abiding folks of Seattle, however the individuals who run their metropolis simply don’t care about them. They care extra in regards to the rights of the homeless junkies tenting on the sidewalks.
