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-Hi, everyone.
My name is Girmay Zahilay,
and I'm running to be
your next councilmember
for King County Council
District 2.
Growing up in Seattle, I always
felt like we were living in
"A Tale of Two Cities."
This is a region of
unprecedented wealth
and also a region where
people are struggling
to afford basic needs
like housing,
a region known
for technology and innovation,
and also a region that lacks
basic infrastructure
and transportation,
a region known
supposedly for progressivism,
and one that continues to
disproportionately
impact black and brown people
through the justice system.
I'm running to be
your councilmember
because we deserve to
live in a region
that works for everyone.
I've seen first-hand
how this economy fails to work
for all of our communities.
I was raised by
a single mother who was
an Ethiopian refugee.
We grew up in places
like Rainier Vista,
Holly Park, and Skyway.
Every night, my mom
would tuck her kids into bed,
and instead of going
to bed herself,
she would put on her scrubs
and go work night shift
at two local nursing homes.
Even though she worked
double shift every day,
she still struggled
to pay rent, to pay
for her car, to pay
medical bills and child care.
After a lifetime of hard work,
these challenges
are even greater today.
I'm running for
King County Council to
design bold solutions
to these regional problems.
We can live in a county where,
if you work a full-time job,
you don't live in
constant fear of losing your home
and being displaced
because there is affordable
housing and there are opportunities
for home ownership
in our neighborhoods.
We can live in a county
where maintaining a car
no longer traps families
in a cycle of poverty
or destroys our environment
because more people
have access to reliable,
effective public transit.
We can live in a county
where our youth can prosper
because they have limitless
educational opportunities
and a justice system that seeks
to rehabilitate and restore
rather than incarcerate
and traumatize.
My name is Girmay Zahilay,
and I know we can work together
to make this a county
that truly works for everyone.
-Hi, I'm Stan Lippmann running
for King County Council District 2.
The good news is that we already
have infinite clean energy,
so we should learn to live
in wealth and harmony.
On my website, councilmanstan.com,
I'm going to visualize
Seattle 2045 in Google Earth,
Jetson or Flintstone.
If elected, you'll decide.
Governor Inslee's
new energy law dooms us.
It makes us carbon- free by 2045,
but science tells us
we only have until 2030
to save the planet.
King County Council
can step in to fix this,
and I'm the only one running
who knows how to get this done.
Since earning my PhD
in atomic physics
at Johns Hopkins 30 years ago,
I had been fighting
for a fossil-free world
by working on fusion
and solar energy technology.
Solar is now cheaper than
hydro and natural gas.
Elect me, and we'll have
a public utility district
to establish
a clean energy marketplace.
You can participate as a producer
and investor in our
collective energy future
and bypass
the Wall Street blockade.
Texas now bills
three gigawatts a year.
So could King County
to give us 12 gigawatts by 2023.
Such marketable electricity
will make King County rich
and carbon-free by 2030.
King County could give you
better service and lower taxes.
Being rich lets us solve
all of our problems
with 1 million affordable units
in 2,000
Space Needle, Jetson-style homes
around the Puget Sound
supporting point-to-point
commuting anywhere fast
through your mag-pneumatic tubes
in your Jetson mobile by 2045.
Nothing can stop the future now
that I resolved the Einstein paradox,
the singularities
at the center of each atom.
Atheists shouldn't worry
about information not escaping
from a black hole
since we're already there.
Cymatics is the operation
of all resident interaction
at 2:32 power precision.
That's why, if you elect me,
you'll be seen as an individual.
I'm Stan Lippmann,
and please vote for me
in the summer and November.
-My name is Larry Gossett,
and I have the honor
of representing District 2
on the King County Council.
And with your support,
I will continue to be able
to focus on the key issues
facing our community --
affordable housing,
maintaining safe communities,
and ensuring that everyone
has equitable accessibility
to public transportation.
These are all areas that I know
you are concerned about,
and with your help,
together with me,
we can continue to make progress
for all the people
who reside here
in Martin Luther King Jr. County.
As a King County councilmember,
I am committed to implementing
my recommendations,
especially in two areas --
public housing
and criminal justice.
First, in public housing,
I recently recommended
44,000 units of housing
be built to the King County
Affordable Housing
Task Force.
It was adopted.
We plan to build this many units
over the next five years.
Again, with your support,
we will achieve this goal.
The second and final area
that I've been proud of
and want to continue
to make progress on
is the number of young people
that we have incarcerated
in our youth detention center.
About 15 years ago, in 2004,
we had an average daily population
of 224 youth.
Today, it's down to 41.
That's a 75% reduction.
I want to maintain that
kind of effectiveness
until we achieve our goal
of zero youth detention.
Thank you very much.