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Omari Tahir-Garrett

PO. Box 22328

Seattle, WA 98122

(206) 717-1685

omariAfrinet@yahoo.com

www.omariforcitycounci.wixsite.com/omariforcitycouncil

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JUSTICE EQUALS PEACE.

 

MY NAME IS OMARI TAHIR-GARRETT, AND I AM RUNNING FOR SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL #2 IN ORDER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

 

JUSTICE EQUALS PEACE. THE CULTURAL ECONOMIC CRISIS IN NATIVE AMERICAN AND AFRICATOWN COMMUNITIES IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF ONGOING COLONIAL STRATEGIES WELL DEFINED AND EXPOSED IN THE KERNER REPORT ON CIVIL DISORDER AS “WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM”.

 

MY PLATFORM’S MAIN ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS.

 

1) RAISE THE AWARENESS THAT SEATTLE IS ON DUWAMISH NATIVE AMERICAN LAND AND COLONIALISM IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE.

 

2) JULIUS MALEMA (ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS) PRESIDENT SOUTH AFRICA! OMARI TAHIR-GARRETT PRESIDENT USA

 

3) REPAIRATIONS (REPARATIONS) MUST BE PAID TO “AFRICATOWN” TO REPAIR / CORRECT THE CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE DONE TO THE “AFRICAN REFUGEES” FROM EUROPEAN COLONIAL SETTLER “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN” TERRORISM / SLAVE TRADE (FROM AFRICANS TO BLACKS TO COONS TO NIG…. TO COLOREDS, TO NEGROES, TO AFRO-AMERICANS TO AFRICAN AMERICANS BACK TO AFRICANS BORN IN AMERICA.

 

4) END ETHNIC CLEANSING / “GENTRIFICATION” OF BLACKS OUT OF SEATTLE’S HISTORIC “CENTRAL AREA” TO THE “SUBURBS”.

 

5) REMOVE PICTURE OF THE “NORTH AMERICAN HITLER” GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE GENOCIDAL MASS MURDERER OF NATIVE AMERICAN “INDIANS” (NOT BORN IN INDIA) AND “OWNER” OF 319 NON-MUSLIM BLACK AFRICAN CHRISTIAN “SLAVES”.

 

6) STOP THE SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM TEACHING BLACK CHILDREN AND ALL CHILDREN THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THOMAS JEFFERSON WERE CHAMPIONS OF “FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY” WHEN THEY WERE IN FACT BRUTAL “TERRORISTS” THAT ENSLAVED UNFORTUNATE KIDNAPPED / TERRORIZED “CHRISTIANIZED” AFRICAN MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. RESTRUCTURE SEATTLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AROUND ENTRY LEVEL CAREER / REAL PERFORMANCE BASED EDUCATION.

 

7) END HOMELESSNESS BY CITY PROVIDING LAND MATERIALS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / COUNSELING FOR HOMELESS TO BUILD THEIR OWN MORTGAGE FREE HOUSING.

 

8) LIMIT SEATTLE ARMED GOVERNMENT AGENTS (“POLICE”) TO 5 YEARS IN WHICH THEY MUST COMPLETE QUALIFICATIONS FOR TEACHER’S CERTIFICATE AND TEACH FOR 5 YEARS BEFORE RETURNING TO SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND INSTITUTE “STING OPERATIONS” TO CATCH CRIMINALS HIDING BEHIND GOVERNMENT ISSUES BADGES AND GUNS.

 

9) SEATTLE SHOULD FORM ITS OWN BANK FOR FINANCING CITY PROJECTS AND FOR FINANCING HOMELESS OWNED HOUSING FOR “HOMELESS / POOR”. ( HAVE YOU SEEN A HOMELESS UNEMPLOYED BIRD?)

 

10) SINCE RACE IS ARBITRARILY AND UNSCENTIFICALLY BASED ON “SKIN COLOR”, REDEFINE “RACE” BASED ON HAIR COLOR WHICH IS A LOT EASIER TO CHANGE, ESPECIALLY FOR “WHITE MINDED” INTEGRATED NEGROES LIKE “WHITE SUPREMACY” COURT JUSTICE “UNCLE” CLARENCE THOMAS.

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

PO Box 80443

Seattle, WA 98108

(206) 775-8767

campaign@hoffmanforseattle.com

www.hoffmanforseattle.com

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In 2018, I worked to protect the Jewish cemeteries from criminal activity, petitioning the city for help to protect the cemeteries and the most vulnerable, and launched a media awareness campaign that brought national light to the issue. My involvement led me to my work on gathering signatures to repeal the Head Tax, and eventually to becoming a candidate for Seattle City Council, District 2.

Like so many of you, I am deeply concerned with the direction of our city. Every day we see more people living on the streets. We see more people suffering from addiction. Housing becomes less affordable. Our taxes continue to go up while the quality of life in our city continues to go down. It is time for a new approach.

As a father of three, my kids’ safety is my top priority. That’s why I will fight for more funding for our police department so that we can hire more officers to keep our neighborhoods safe, and to protect everyone equally. Police officers need more training and resources.

As a small business owner, I believe the city should make it easier to open small businesses and create jobs. Job creation requires affordable housing, and constructions codes need be re-examined to increase the supply. Job creation also requires functional transportation and mass transit solutions.

The city of Seattle is in need of common sense, data-driven, logical policies with measurable outcomes. One of my first actions as your representative will be to call for an independent audit of all city funds in order to reallocate funding from non-performing agencies to data-driven solutions. I believe that we need to invest in dignity. The dignity of a bed to sleep in. The dignity of a job that pays enough. The dignity of schools that uplift our students. The dignity of medical treatment that addresses addiction and mental health.

As your District 2 representative on the Seattle City Council, I will be present in your neighborhood, hold weekly meetings in-district, and invite public comment on all council business. Thank you for your vote.

Hoffmanforseattle.com

Twitter: @thehoffather

Facebook.com/AriHoffmanforSeattleCityCouncil

Mark Solomon

Mark Solomon

PO Box 9100

Seattle, WA 98109

(206) 679-1162

info@marksolomon.org

www.marksolomon.org

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As a Seattle native, born and raised on Beacon Hill, I’ve experienced firsthand the rapid changes in our district. Seattle’s growth has disproportionately and adversely impacted the residents of District 2. I’m running for Seattle City Council to ensure the voices of this district are heard and that the City better addresses the needs and concerns of our residents.  

 

Protecting Our Community. For nearly 30 years, I’ve worked on public safety and quality of life issues impacting District 2 neighborhoods. As a Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Seattle Police Department, YouthCare Boardmember, past chair of the Washington Coalition of Crime Victim Advocates and a current regional director of the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, I have a history of protecting the health of our community and effecting positive change. From implementing youth gun violence prevention programs to initiating Crime Prevention strategies that resulted in decreased street robberies, I have the experience necessary to solve our city’s biggest challenges and a strong track record of results in this district.

 

Affordability and Housing. We must create affordable housing that adds to, rather than replaces, the current stock of naturally affordable units. I will enact legislation ensuring that affordable housing funds earned in District 2 are spent in District 2. I support the Multifamily Tax Exemption and homeownership assistance that keep families in their homes and will work to ensure families are not evicted due to rising housing costs. I will introduce legislation that supports our small businesses through funding for commercial space development and tax credits to reduce small commercial space lease rates.

 

Leaving No One Behind. Though our local economy is booming, many of our neighbors are being left behind. In a region as prosperous as ours, no one should live unsheltered. Seattle has an annual budget of more than $90 million to address homelessness, but these funds aren’t being used efficiently. We must not only to mitigate the impact of homelessness, but also interrupt the cycle of homelessness before it begins. I will invest in diversion programs like rental assistance, building additional housing units, increasing low-to-moderate barrier shelter capacity and effective case management to end the cycle of homelessness.

 

I’m proudly endorsed by: King County Councilmember Larry Gossett, State Representatives Gael Tarleton and Sharon Tomiko Santos, and School Boardmember Betty Patu; Professional and Technical Employees Local 17; and, numerous community leaders such as Juan Cotto, and Camille Monzon-Richards.

Chris Peguero

Chris Peguero

2518 S BRANDON CT.

Seattle, WA 98108

(253) 353-9177

Christopher@district2forpeguero.com

www.District2forPeguero.com

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I am the candidate with the experience to offer bold new approaches to our community’s most urgent challenges — homelessness & lack affordable housing; limited career paths for our youth; and increasing negative impacts from climate change.

 

I have worked at the City of Seattle for over a decade and am proud to have been the energy behind the creation of the first-ever environmental justice program at Seattle City Light. I have worked directly with communities to advocate for equity and justice. I intend to build on that experience as a City Councilmember to foster transparency, equity and cultural accessibility across the City government.

 

This starts with facing head on one of our City’s most visible challenges, our homelessness crisis.

 

Over the past several months I, along with my husband and two young children have volunteered at Camp Second Chance. For our family this has been a transformative experience to better know our neighbors facing the challenges of life on the street. It requires us to remember that our homeless population are real people facing challenges and desperately in need of a second chance. We need to provide more support for those programs that work and continue to build on those successes. But we also need to do more to protect our existing affordable housing units and meet the City commitments to build 6000 new low income and affordable housing units. We will work with regional partners, private businesses and non-profits to consider policies and funding while working to stop pressures of gentrification and displacement so all residents can thrive in place.

 

I have been blessed to have the means to own a home in Seattle and understand firsthand the challenges and security that comes with homeownership. We must provide stronger protections for renters so they don’t end up homeless. We can not displace people as quickly as we build affordable housing.

 

Lastly, we know that we face a climate crisis. I believe it is time to call for a Seattle Green New Deal. This framework can serve as a catalyst to fast- track the work underway in the City’s Climate Action Plan, creating green job opportunities and career pathways for our youth to become the next generation of environmental and clean energy workers.

 

I’d be honored to have your vote.

Phyllis Porter

Phyllis Porter

PO Box 84862

Seattle, WA 98124

(206) 582-5150

phyllis@electphyllisporter.com

www.electphyllisporter.com

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I have lived through too many of the crises that the people of Seattle are now facing and intimately understand why we need a representative who has lived the same experiences of those they are hoping to represent at City Hall. Seattle needs a responsive, representative leader that will actually get things done at City Hall. As Seattle continues to buckle under the pressure of so many different crises it is more important than ever that we seek practical solutions, not just platitudes in solving these challenges.

 

From the Chinatown-International District to Rainier Beach, people are continuously at risk of losing their communities. As a renter, I’ve experienced first-hand astronomical rent increases that have made staying here harder and harder. Friends I’ve known for decades have been pushed farther and farther away from the place they once called home. One of the most important things we can do is to keep people in the homes they currently live in, and provide more relief to their increasing costs.

 

Our unsheltered crisis needs smart solutions that prioritize keeping people in their homes and mental health services. We need to be better stewards of our resources as well as prioritize finding new progressive revenue streams so we can build more public housing right here in District 2 and have places to immediately house those who need it.

 

I decided to take up cycling and began to see the City in ways I’d never seen it before. My eyes were opened to the dangers of our South Seattle streets especially Rainier Avenue. South Seattle residents have experienced far too many casualties on our district’s main arterial, and they happen here more than any other part of the city, another product of systemic neglect of our neighborhoods. Transportation access  is an equity issue we need to prioritize.

 

Representative leadership means electing people who have lived through the experiences of those they serve. I want to go to City Hall to be a responsive voice to the community and implement smart policies that help those who need it most. My perseverance and lived experiences will help make our community a better place for everyone.

 

I would be honored to earn your vote so that we can make District 2 work for all of us.

Tammy Morales

Tammy Morales

P.O. Box 20655

Seattle, WA 98102

(206) 396-1276

tammy@votefortammy.com

www.votefortammy.com

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Seattle is at a crossroads this election. Will we allow corporate interests to dictate local government policy? Or will we shift power to the people and allow for democratization of wealth and power?

I’m a community organizer for Rainier Beach Action Coalition working to stop displacement. I’m also a mom with 2 kids in Seattle Public Schools. I’ve spent my career building healthy neighborhoods with greater food security, better housing, and stronger protections for working people, so families don’t have to struggle the way my family did.

I lead by joining with those most impacted to advance the goals of equity and shared prosperity.

Priorities I’ll fight for:

Investing in low-income schools: Provide wrap-around services like health care, homework help, after-school childcare, and parent engagement programs; expand the Seattle preschool program; support low- and moderate-income students transitioning to college or union apprentice programs.

Acknowledging the limitations of prison as a solution:  Instead, advance community solutions like fair sentencing, diversion, alternative sentencing, victim-service programs; and eliminate cash bail. Let’s take the bold step of transitioning to practices that support victims, heal communities, and allow for real rehabilitation.

Creating inexpensive places where we can live without fear of displacement: Let’s use city-owned surplus land to build social housing that is affordable for low income earners; housing first strategies to address chronic homelessness; invest in community priorities like building more childcare facilities, senior housing, accessible streets and sidewalks and a high-capacity, reliable, green public transit system.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels to meet our Climate Action Plan goals: That means investing in alternative modes of transportation and green building practices - we can’t call it an investment if it’s destroying the planet.

We must reverse our regressive tax structure in order to invest in the infrastructure we all need to thrive. I’ll work to find the right mix of progressive revenue — like taxing the unearned income of wealthy investors or making our taxes on businesses more progressive. We can’t fund our growing city on the backs of low-income individuals. For Seattle to thrive we must ensure that wealthy corporations pay their fair share.

I ask for your vote so we can build power for the people of District 2.

Endorsements: Representative Pramila Jayapal; State Senator Rebecca Saldaña; City Council Member Teresa Mosqueda; Washington Latino Caucus; King County Young Democrats; 37th District Democrats; Sierra Club; UFCW 21; SEIU 1199NW; SEIU 775.

Henry Dennison

Henry Dennison

5418 Rainier Ave S

Seattle, WA 98118

(206) 323-1755

swpseattle@gmail.com

www.themilitant.com

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Henry Dennison joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1978. He is a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union.  He has been part of union, anti-war, anti-racist and immigrant rights mobilizations. As a long-time union coal miner he fought to defend health, safety and union rights.

The SWP presents a broad program to advance the interests of the working class:

Organize and strengthen unions. Support strikes like those of teachers last year, that set an example for all working people. Support Uber and Lyft drivers’ fight to organize.

Demand a massive, federally-funded public works program to put millions to work at union wages to build needed infrastructure and housing.

Support amnesty for all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Organize and unionize immigrant workers, a life and death question for unions.

Support farm workers’ fights to organize unions and for safe conditions in the fields. Guarantee the costs of production to working farmers. Nationalize the land to guarantee farmers and ranchers use of the land without eviction and to stop real estate speculators’ land-grabs.

Defend access to birth control and women’s right to choose abortion. Women’s control of their bodies is a precondition for control over their lives and to win full equality.

Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Cuba! Oppose Washington’s wars! Withdraw all US forces from the Mideast, Afghanistan and South Korea now. End the Korean War. Dismantle the US nuclear arsenal.

Oppose Jew-hatred in all forms. Recognize the state of Israel and a contiguous, sovereign Palestinian state.

Defend democratic rights under attack from both Democrat and Republican politicians. Defend voting rights, free speech and civil discourse.

Abolish the death penalty, a weapon of repression used disproportionately against African Americans. End solitary confinement. For prisoners’ right to literature of their choice.

No cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or benefits for disabled workers. Government-guaranteed health care and retirement for all.

Workers control in the plants, mines, railroads and all workplaces to enforce safety and to help prevent pollution.

End the US embargo against Cuba! End attacks on Cuban sovereignty. Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution!

A movement of millions can be built in this country to fight for these and other demands, along a course to replace the dictatorship of capital with workers’ political power — that can begin to organize society based on the needs and rights of working people. Join us. Read the Militant newspaper at www.themilitant.com

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