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Socialist Seattle mayor’s World Cup cleanup is a world-class fraud

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Seattle cleaned itself up to host the World Cup the way a child cleans his room before his parents come upstairs: by shoving the dirty laundry under the bed and stuffing everything else into the closet.

Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson herded thousands of drug addicts away from the SoDo neighborhood’s Lumen Field football stadium and nearby Downtown’s hotels, then bragged that “Seattle is ready” for the massive influx of international visitors.

But walk just a few blocks, and the truth crowds the sidewalk — hunched over and smoking fentanyl.

This week I joined Jonathan Choe, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and Andrea Suarez, founder of homeless outreach group We Heart Seattle, for what we called a “Doom Loop Tour” through the parts of Seattle that officials hope World Cup visitors never see.

It was just a few hours before Monday’s Belgium-Egypt face-off, the first of six matches to be held in the Emerald City.

At 12th and Jackson, in the Chinatown-International District that overlooks the stadium, hundreds of people........

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