Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant has basked in the limelight of late, getting arrested in a Sea-Tac protest outside Alaska Airlines’ HQ and claiming exclusive credit for the Council decision to bring all city employees up to $15 an hour by next April. Seattle’s socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant (AP photo) But Sawant’s nimbus appears to be wearing thin, even in her amen corner — the alternative press that has sung her praises from one protest to another.