-As a business owner,
I've had to live with the consequences caused
by politicians dismantling our criminal justice system,
allowing crime, addiction and mental illness to cause death,
the ruin of our businesses and beautiful downtown,
and the sense of safety of every citizen.
As a resident,
I have had to contend with ever increasing rent
and have experienced being priced out of buying a home.
As your city councilmember,
my mission will be to serve you by passing practical policy
that closes the wage versus rent gap,
rebuilds our police department, secures our own city jail,
permits arrests and jail sentences,
and builds long term residential treatment centers
to solve the drug and mental illness epidemic.
In Seattle, we still live without fundamental safety.
Police are not allowed to arrest,
the county tells us there is no room at the jail.
Judges don't convict and sentence.
Cops are treated as criminals and criminals
are treated as victims.
Under these conditions,
our city's quality of life is being destroyed.
Businesses are failing and leaving.
Our working people have nothing left over
at the end of the month.
Worst of all,
we are in a city where the press and government
stifle critical thinking and diversity of opinion,
even in the face of total government failure.
We can do better.
Every citizen has the same wish --
to be treated fairly under the law,
and to live in a peaceful, stable, prosperous society.
Safety will bring business and prosperity back to our city.
We can do this together. With your vote,
I will represent the unheard voice,
the common sense voice,
the united voice against a status quo
that has failed us for too long.