of redlining, gentrification, and racism
with residents being overlooked and ignored.
I want to provide and restore the opportunities in District 3
that allow everyone to thrive.
The American dream is having a good job
that can support a family.
I will expand opportunities for apprenticeships,
create a website to help individuals navigate
all the training and educational opportunities available,
and ensure protections for workers across all industries.
The American dream is being able to own a home.
I will start a home-buying program
to help those now excluded from ownership
and protect seniors from being taxed out of their homes.
I will tax out-of-state or -country real-estate purchases
to pay for affordable units
rather than taxing us and assess fees on Seattle's
many empty apartments and commercial space.
I will bring an end to inadequate in-lieu fees
and demand affordable units in new development.
The American dream is being able to start a business.
I will make it easier to start or expand
a small business in Seattle
and provide support for immigrant, minority,
and women-owned businesses.
The American dream is a community
that has your back when you're in need.
I will fight for on-demand mental health
and drug treatment.
We must provide results-oriented services to help people,
not just give those suffering a space to suffer in.
I ask you to join me.
We can once again aspire to our highest potential.
You, too, can have the American dream right here in Seattle.
If you put your faith in me,
I will dedicate all of my energy to making
Seattle the best that it can be.
I am Pat Murakami, and I am ready to fight for you.
We can do better together.
-Hello, I'm Egan Orion, and I'm running
for Seattle City Council in District 3.
Today, I ask you to join my campaign for innovation,
accountability, and pragmatic solutions
for the very real challenges our city faces
and to help me celebrate the best of what Seattle
has to offer.
I believe that in one of the most innovative places on earth,
anything is possible.
I'm a 4th generation District 3 resident.
From the district, I've started two small businesses
and a nonprofit. I love Seattle.
I celebrate it every day.
I celebrate it by throwing the biggest single festival day
in all of Seattle -- PrideFest -- which in itself,
celebrates the best of our values of inclusion,
diversity, and love.
Through my work in Capitol Hill, I celebrate small businesses
and all that they contribute to a healthy, vibrant community.
In the Central District,
I celebrate the diversity of my neighborhood
where gay and straight and black and white live side by side
and have taught me what it means to be a good neighbor.
To all my District 3 neighbors,
I vow to represent your voice at council
and be accountable to you.
Central to my campaign is the imperative to provide
24/7 low-barrier shelter and treatment
on-demand for mental health and addiction
to all who need it.
Let's use our expanded partnership with the county
to bond over 1,000 new supportive housing units and vow
to bring them online within three years.
Despite our wealth and resources,
we are letting our unsheltered neighbors languish
on our city's streets.
Let's bring everyone to the table to remedy
this human crisis that the current council
has failed to adequately address.
We live in one of the most innovative places on earth.
Let's harness that innovation to lead on climate change policy
by investing in wind and solar
incentivizing green building and remodeling,
and by electrifying our entire public transportation system.
While our current D3 council member
has moved our politics further left,
she's failed to do the hard work
to actually move our city forward.
I celebrate our city's progressiveness,
but will pair it with a plan and a coalition
so we can actually get something done.
I believe that with the collective innovation
and will available in our city, we can tackle anything.
There's so much to do, so join me.
Let's get started.
-I've used my two terms in city hall
to help build powerful movements to win historic victories
in the face of fierce corporate opposition.
I'm proud to have helped make Seattle
the first major city to win the $15 minimum wage.
I worked alongside movements for landmark renters' rights,
such as the move-in fee payment plan so renters
no longer need thousands of dollars just to move in.
We established Indigenous Peoples' Day,
gained crucial funding for LGBTQ services,
and won the first-ever city funds for legal support
for renters facing eviction.
Seattle is rapidly becoming unaffordable.
The for-profit housing market has failed us.
In spite of a construction boom,
our housing and homelessness crisis
remains among the worst in the nation.
That's why Seattle needs rent control
free of corporate loopholes.
We also need a massive expansion of affordable
social housing paid for by taxing big business,
not working people or small business.
Seattle needs a Green New Deal
which can create thousands of union jobs.
What's at stake this year is who runs Seattle,
big business or working people?
Last year, Jeff Bezos bullied our city
to defeat the Amazon tax
which would have funded housing and services.
Now Amazon and big business are trying to buy this election
and have piled $1 million into two corporate PACs.
Their mission -- anybody but Kshama Sawant.
Why? Because they know
I am unshakably accountable to working people
and because our movement has shown that when we fight,
we can win.
As a socialist, feminist, and union member,
I am proud to be endorsed
by National Women's Political Caucus,
by Sierra Club, and by unions in public schools,
healthcare, universities, hotels,
and by postal workers and laborers.
I appeal to you to join our movement
to make Seattle affordable for all.
-Hi. My name is Ami Nguyen,
and I'm running for Seattle City Council, District 3,