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Hello! This is your Neighborly Reminder that we have an election coming up and it’s super important that we all vote! Ballot drop boxes are open right now and close Tuesday, November 2nd, at 8pm sharp.
Personally, I’m voting for Nikkita Oliver for City Council Position 9 and Nicole Thomas-Kennedy for City Attorney. Both are far and away the better-qualified candidates for their positions, and both are up against a LOT of resistance from corporate-backed super PACs.
Here’s where to find your ballot drop box: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/how-to-vote/ballots/returning-my-ballot/ballot-drop-boxes.aspx
Here’s the Seattle DSA voting guide on Nikkita Oliver and NTK: SeattleDSA.org/goat2021
I’m down to talk more about who I’m personally voting for and why, but more than anything I want to make sure your vote is in and counted ASAP!
We encourage you to vote for both Nikkita Oliver and NTK. Both can work together to defend Black and Indigenous lives by defunding police to invest in community, halt the sweeps and criminalization of poverty, work towards Housing for All, free and convenient public transit, and to end regressive taxes on the poor and make the rich pay their share.
Please vote for both. Alone and their opponents will squash any people- and worker-centered policies coming from city council.
Nikkita Oliver
Experience
Nikkita Oliver (they/them) is an experienced organizer, educator, lawyer, and artist. They are a socialist abolitionist that knows Seattle is overpoliced, overimprisoned, and overexploited.
As City Council member, we’d have a socialist and abolitionist anchored in the community and mass movements fighting for the people. We can’t succeed with just one vote.
Shared Values
Nikkita Oliver believes in consulting community first. They held listening posts with the Seattle People’s Party to understand how Seattle is failing Black, Indigenous, and other people in the 99%. Much like the mass-line organizing of the Black Panther Party, this meant direct outreach to unhoused people, union workers, parents, and crafting policy based on their struggles and ideas. It’s time to put people first.
Nikkita’s platform includes:
- Housing for All with public investment in social and cooperative housing, ending the anti-unhoused people sweeps,
- Divest from Harmful Punitive Systems to Invest in Holistic Community Health & Safety, which means defunding broken, unaccountable institutions like police so we can invest in solutions to root causes
- Environmental justice including a Seattle Green New Deal that includes universal, free-at-use public transit and formally addressing historic wrongs against Coast Salish Tribes like the Duwamish, and create union jobs to build housing and infrastructure so people can live in the city they work
Landlords have raised over $368,050.00 to fight Nikkita Oliver: not because they care about lost bus fares but because they fear public investment in social and cooperative housing for all — and the rich being taxed to fund community.
Their opponent is a business-owner who wants “pragmatic solutions” that benefit business interests.
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy
Experience
NTK, a former public defender, is attorney of record on 600 cases. Her opponent just 6. NTK has litigated over 400 cases and never lost a jury-trial. She’s seen how the system has failed in defending clients.
She knows the job. The City Attorney collaborates on public policy with City Council as well as addresses misdemeanors – not felonies. Misdemeanors are largely crimes of poverty: lost bus fares, broken taillights, etc.
We can’t prosecute our way out of poverty.
Shared Values
NTK is an abolitionist. She knows first hand that the system in Seattle is overpoliced, overimprisoned, and overexploited.
NTK is running for city attorney to partner with city council on:
- Housing for All with public investment in social and cooperative housing, ending the anti-unhoused people sweeps,
- ending regressive taxation and defending progressive revenue,
- defunding bloated police budgets that don’t work to invest community solutions that work,
- using the office to build worker and tenant power
Landlords have raised over $368,050.00 to fight NTK: not because they care about lost bus fares but because they fear public investment in social and cooperative housing for all — and the rich being taxed to fund community.
Her opponent joined the Republican Party in 2020 and will fight every good policy passed by City Council members like Nikkita Oliver and Kshama Sawant.