20 years ago, I ran for city council.
At that time, I proposed an initiative
titled Vision 2000.
Other proposals I made you will find at
GeorgeFreeman.com.
Two have been enacted.
Police officers' vehicles have cameras,
although at times
they still turn those cameras off.
I also proposed a bridge crossing
at 1st Avenue.
After 20 years, that bridge
has finally been completed.
I represent visionary ventures.
I build restaurants and nightclubs.
Seattle is the Emerald City, and it is said
that change comes from the bottom
for the Emerald City.
And given the problems that we face,
those problems grow, and our decisions
work their way up to the state, nation,
and our planet.
I intend to speak to those issues
and the problems that we face
through the initiatives that I have proposed.
I believe that we need
to add to the Seattle Center
a new image.
I believe that we need to look
at our health care problems
and that we do something similar
to the Bookmobile --
mobile bus health centers.
I think that we need to move our homeless people
into areas that are parks,
which have security and health care and showers.
We need to have transportation back for those.
The people that live in Seattle --
Once a building is in the market
of being sold, I think the city
should back that up with mortgage loans
at a low cost and let those people live there.
I also think that we need more police officers.
I do not believe that we should
defund our police department.
And especially women.
Women are half of this society,
and we need half of the police department
to be women.