Seattle is a great city,
but our leaders are failing us.
City Hall has become dysfunctional.
Thousands are sleeping outside.
Housing is unaffordable.
Small businesses are going under.
Police reform has failed.
The middle class gets squeezed harder every day.
We're all exhausted by Seattle politicians
saying the right thing
but not doing the right thing when it matters.
I've been doing hard things that matter
my whole life.
I've spent the last seven years
fighting for our homeless Native community
as executive director at the Chief Seattle Club.
We're building $180 million
in affordable housing.
We're innovating.
Surplus trailers on parking lots
called Eagle Village,
modular housing in Lake City.
200 family units with a longhouse.
And we're succeeding.
During the pandemic, we moved
entire encampments
from the International District
and Pioneer Square
to the safety of hotel rooms.
I'm leading.
I have a 22-point
emergency housing action plan
to bring everyone sleeping outside into safety
in 14 months following the election.
You can see my plan at my website.
As a longtime community police advocate,
I am done with racism
and brutality with zero consequences.
As a community police commissioner,
we fought to block
the current police union contract.
But the mayor and council buckled,
rolling back reforms on racial bias
and violating the federal consent decree.
Seattle's next mayor will hire
a new police chief and negotiate
a new police contract,
determining the future of reform.
You can see my plan at my website.
Affordable housing, racial justice,
equitable recovery, climate change,
transit, education,
the West Seattle Bridge.
We have so much important work ahead of us.
It's time for a new generation
of leadership in Seattle.
I believe in this city.
If you'll believe in me, together,
we can make Seattle the city we all love.