Progressive Candidates Challenge Tanya Woo for the City Council Seat
Here is an easy way to help them win
Two progressive candidates have emerged as favorites so far in the race to challenge Tanya Woo for a citywide seat on the council this fall–Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Saunatina Sanchez.
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Please help Saunatina and Alexis qualify for Democracy Vouchers, by donating $10 and signing their qualifying forms. The links above take you straight to the spot, and it takes just a couple minutes.
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Their opponent, Tanya Woo, was recently appointed to the city council after losing to Tammy Morales last fall. Woo underperformed the average candidate by about two points when it came to the rightward shift among Seattle seats. She looks vulnerable in November when the Seattle electorate will actually represent the Seattle population, something Sara Nelson thinks is a bad idea.
When Woo’s seat was up for grabs, you might recall that Tim Ceis asserted that the PAC funders who bought the election needed to let the council know who to appoint. Woo was the obvious corporate candidate at the time. In fact, she had also benefited last year from over $60,000 in independent expenditures from the scandal-prone National Association of Realtors, who were also supporting the Republican ticket in Spokane at the time.
During the appointment process, Ms. Woo was the only candidate who was so conservative that she outright rejected the notion of any progressive taxes to help the city. Granted, she later backpedaled with some conservative boilerplate language, but in the process largely outed herself as to the well to the right of mainstream and centrist Democrats.
She has more or less said she wants to protect housing for rich people, and last week she just voted against cutting red tape for building affordable housing. Her plans for our budget will devastate basic city services.
She barely ever bothered to vote in local elections, and only started voting at a time conspicuously close to when she started running for office.
In other words, she’s totally unfit for the job.
For the sake of our city, and especially for those most vulnerable–she needs to lose this race.
I am not endorsing any candidates in this race yet, but I do very much want to see the progressive campaign machines built up for success. Woo will likely benefit from a lot of outside corporate money, and so it’s important that we open up the voucher spigot as fast as we can.
Please take a couple minutes to sign their forms and donate the $10. Here is Alexis’ form, and here is Saunatina’s.