At a gathering of Christian nationalist preachers called Let Us Worship on Sunday night, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward took to the stage with other political candidates to receive prayers and an endorsement from former Spokane Valley legislator-turned-pastor, Matt Shea.
The event came almost exactly four years after Woodward denounced what she called Shea's "divisive and extreme rhetoric and ideology." Onstage Sunday, Shea began by striking an unmistakable chord of reconciliation.
"I want you to extend your hands," Shea implored the crowd in a video of the event RANGE reviewed, “because we have an enemy we need to be fighting. His name is Satan. We don’t need to be fighting each other, amen?” The crowd shouted, “Amen.”
Woodward, her hands crossed in front of her, nodded positively.
She is one of the very long standing tv station personalities. The Spokane area can be a wonderful place and also a shit hole. It's always been a place where the rich fuck over the rest of the people HARD and get away with it. I was born and raised here. Spent half my life here and in Seattle. The polar opposite of each other. Spokane has a very distinct culture and lots of religious freaks. The fact that Matt Shea can share a stage with the mayor is frightening.
Anyways fuck Matt Shea and fuck Nadine Woodward. ↙️↙️↙️