Communist Activist Who Wants To Defund Police, Abolish Prisons Offered Job As Seattle’s ‘Homelessness Czar’

A Seattle activist who has called for abolishing the police and prisons has been named the city’s “Homelessness Czar,” a position that will allow him to establish and run the new Regional Homeless Authority for Seattle and surrounding King County.

KOMO News reported that Marc Dones, a consultant and executive director of the National Innovation Service, was offered the job last Thursday. The Seattle Times reported that Dones accepted the job. Dones, KOMO reported, had been contracted by Seattle to work to build the RHA before being offered to run the agency after the board overseeing the agency’s first choice, Regina Cannon of Atlanta, declined the position.