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PDFFrom Seattle Times:
Meet newly elected Mayor Eric Strawn, 35, who, on this recent Monday at the office, is wearing one of his dozen or so Bob Marley T-shirts.
The T-shirt goes well with the mayor’s ponytail and arm-length tattoos that include a large feather signifying his Native-American heritage.
It goes well with the reggae music streaming out of his laptop, and the huge green, red and yellow striped flag, with crossed paddles in the middle, honoring native Hawaiians, that the mayor hung on the office wall as a memento of when he and his family lived there for five years.
In more ways than just attire, Strawn has brought a new look to the top elective office in this city of 1,600 just south of Olympia.
Strawn is shaking things up big time with the political old guard here. And the old guard, many two or more decades older than Strawn, is fighting back as only can happen in small-town politics.
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