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Mr. Mayor, are you a bully?

That’s the question 成人X站 Radio鈥檚 Jason Rantz asked Seattle Mayor Ed Murray following reports of texts between him and Councilmember Sally Bagshaw.

“You don’t pass the largest transportation package in state history by bullying people. You don’t get people to vote for marriage equality when their districts vote against it by bullying them,” Murray said.

He went on to list other policy changes he made by bringing people together, such as a $15 minimum wage and changes to affordable housing.

Earlier this week, a transcript of text messages exchanged between Murray and Councilmember Sally Bagshaw in the middle of the night that raised a few eyebrows. Clearly, the mayor was attempting to pull his weight on the issue of Seattle’s most notorious homeless encampment — the Jungle.

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And the mayor admits, “It was wasn’t … I mean, people have testy exchanges all the time and you know, we’re not saints. We’re not enlightened Buddhas. We’re politicians and this is a gut wrenching issue we’re struggling with.”

Now, some in the media are calling Murray a bully. Rather politely, the mayor suggested media outlets, like The Stranger, must be full of “mellow people” if they think his “cryptic, testy exchange” with Bagshaw was anger.

“I think I have an outstanding relationship with most council members and I think I have a really good relationship with council members that I don’t often agree with,” Murray told Rantz. “There are people who have different strategies than I do who were on the campaign trail and talked about me being a pretty great mayor. We’ve, I think, passed more legislation, more major initiatives in this short period of time than I think that’s happen in many years in this city.”

The mayor isn’t sure exactly how a reputation of him being hard to work with even exists. He said he’s never vetoed anything or had a confirmation rejected.

Councilmember Lisa Herbold claims Murray made a similar threat about the Jungle in late January or early February. And a city council staffer who wished to remain anonymous said that “Murray is a bully.”

“He yells at his co-workers all the time, and most people become afraid of him,” the staffer told The Stranger.

Murray says, in his 18 years in the state legislature, he made friends with colleagues who he adamantly disagreed with and argued with on issues of taxes and LGBT rights.

“I think the same is true here, but you still have those disagreements,” he said.

The mayor doesn’t believe that Seattleites simply want their elected officials to be on the same page and for a string of text messages to be a story on the same day 14 fires were set in the Jungle is disappointing.