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-Hello. I'm Joe McDermott.
As your King County
Councilmember,
Sound Transit Board member,
and member of the Seattle
King County Board of Health,
building a just, equitable,
and thriving King County
is the mission
for my work every day.
Strong transit options
mean opportunity for everyone.
That's why I fought
to include West Seattle
in light rail expansion,
and I'm leading the effort
to secure a tunnel
for light rail in West Seattle.
It's also why I'm delivering
RapidRide bus service
to Delridge and Burien
and ensuring that metro
and Sound Transit
prioritize equitable fares
and equitable fare enforcement.
Solving our
homelessness crisis
means solving our housing crisis.
That's why
I passed legislation
dedicating $660 million
in lodging taxes
to affordable housing,
and I'm shaping
the council's work,
creating a coordinated,
regional response
for homelessness services.
With firearm deaths in America
exceeding 35,000 a year,
gun violence is a public health
crisis that we must address.
That's why I introduced
and passed the King County
Gun Safety Action Plan --
common sense laws and programs
focused on saving lives.
And a thriving King County means
we must be
a welcoming King County.
When I joined the hundreds
of people at Sea-Tac Airport
protesting Trump's first
illegal travel ban
targeting Muslims,
it became crystal clear
that we needed to step up locally
to support our immigrant and
refugee friends and neighbors.
I partnered with
Executive Constantine and
the Seattle Foundation
in developing the immigrant
and refugee Resilience Fund
and sponsor the creation
of the King County Immigrant
and Refugee Commission
to support
residents across King County.
A just, equitable,
and thriving King County
is possible no matter
the challenges we face.
I would be honored to
continue this mission with you
for the next four years.
-My name is Goodspaceguy,
and I am a free market candidate
for the King County Council.
King County is our part of
Spaceship Earth
that we should turn into
a higher- living-standard
demonstration project
for the people of Earth.
Let us see how much we can raise
the living standard
of the workers in King County.
Orbital space around our Earth
might become important
to King County.
Please think of our Earth
as your spaceship.
You have a spaceship.
Our Spaceship Earth
is traveling through space
around our sun each year.
And with our sun,
our Spaceship Earth
is traveling inside
our Milky Way galaxy.
Please think of yourself
as the passengers and crewmembers
of our Spaceship Earth.
How can we improve
our Spaceship Earth?
Let us use technology
and free market economics
to raise the living standard
of the workers.
As crewmembers of Spaceship Earth,
let us promote the functioning
of the free market economy.
Let us move away from
the command economy
of socialism that uses force.
Socialism requires force
because socialism
does not have the strong profit
incentive that capitalism has.
Let us move
towards the free market economy
that serves you, the consumer.
Under capitalism,
profits create jobs
desired by you, the consumers.
Through work,
we create the living standard.
Let us try to get more people
into the workforce.
Let us abolish the minimum wages
of the command economy
because minimum wages
make jobs go away,
which increases homelessness.
Bad laws create bad results
like increasing the number
of homeless people.
Homeless people need money
and so turn to panhandling
and welfare and crime.
By abolishing the minimum wages
of the command economy,
let us make it profitable
to coax homeless people
into the workforce
so they can help raise
the living standard
of our King County
of Spaceship Earth.
Vote for Goodspaceguy.