Socialist Seattle mayors World Cup cleanup is a world-class fraud

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 clustered on corners to openly smoke fentanyl and staggered through the streets like a horde from “The Walking Dead.”Drug deals went down in plain view.Minority business owners, especially the district’s Asian shopkeepers that have been abandoned by the city for years, were left to fend for themselves.Many had boarded up their storefront windows.One had to intervene to stop a drugged-out vagrant from breaking into his car while we watched.A pair of people who we took to be charity workers distributed food to the addicts.But when we tried to speak with them, the reality became clear: The food appeared to be bait to draw in new customers for their illegal drug sales.We spoke with a dazed-looking girl who looked no older than 15, wearing a loose-fitting bra and torn, unbuttoned jeans.In one hand she held a straw.In the other, fentanyl foil.Suarez, who personally interacts with homeless people on the streets and gets them into housing...