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What's at stake this year is who runs Seattle,
big business or working people?
Last year, the corporate elite
bullied our city to defeat the Amazon tax,
which would have funded housing and services.
Now they are trying to buy this election
with an unprecedented
$1.5 million in three corporate PACs.
15 Amazon executives,
along with big developers
and corporate lobbyists,
have donated to my opponent.
This is a struggle for the soul of Seattle.
The Chamber of Commerce has gotten
its candidates into every city council race.
Their mission -- take over City Hall
and flip it to the right.
But we can fight back.
I've used my two terms
to help build powerful movements
and coalitions to win historic victories.
I'm proud to have helped lead the way in making Seattle
the first major city to win the $15 minimum wage.
Since then, we've won
tens of millions of dollars
for affordable housing
and landmark renters' rights laws.
We won crucial funding for LGBTQ services.
Now we are bringing back
the Central District Post Office.
Despite a major construction boom,
Seattle's housing affordability
and homelessness crisis remain
among the nation's worst.
The for-profit housing market
and political establishment have failed us.
We need rent control,
free of corporate loopholes,
and a massive expansion of social housing,
paid for by taxing big business and the rich,
not ordinary workers,
middle-class homeowners,
people of color, or small businesses,
who are already overtaxed.
Seattle needs a Green New Deal
to make our city 100 percent renewable
by 2030,
creating thousands of union jobs.
As a socialist and union member,
I'm proud to have the support of
The Stranger, Sierra Club,
Nick Licata, Cary Moon,
Nikkita Oliver, Noam Chomsky,
and 15 labor unions.
Join me in fighting for a city we need,
not a playground for the wealthy.