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-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.