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Busy Thursday around Capitol Hill for Sawant: campaign announcement, City Council committee meeting

It’s a busy day in District 3 for Kshama Sawant as the City Council representative for Capitol Hill, the Central District, and the nearby brings her Human Services, Equitable Development, and Renter Rights Committee to Capitol Hill for an evening meeting following a planned morning campaign announcement.

CHS broke the news last week that Sawant’s re-election committee had formally filed to enter the race to defend the incumbent city council member’s seat against a field that has already grown to three challengers. Thursday morning, Sawant is slated to hold a press conference to discuss her 2019 campaign plans.

 

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“Sawant will address media at beloved neighborhood Ethiopian restaurant, Saba, which is facing displacement due to gentrification and upscale corporate development,” the media advisory reads. CHS reported in October about Sawant’s efforts to help the small business as it faces the loss of its location to make way for a planned mixed-use development.

Thursday night, the council member is bringing the committee she chairs to the Miller Community Center for an unusual beyond-City Hall hearing on the nomination and confirmation of the director of the Seattle Human Services Department. Interim director Jason Johnson has been serving in the role since his appointment by Mayor Jenny Durkan last May. The session (PDF) begins at 6 PM.

The agenda doesn’t include any planned discussion of Sawant’s efforts to win a 12-month moratorium on mobile home park redevelopment in Seattle as she seeks to protect the residents of the Halcyon Mobile Home Park in District 5’s Bitter Lake. That proposal is slated to be taken up by the full council at Monday afternoon’s session. Thursday night’s hearing and rare formal appearance for the city council committee on Capitol Hill will, however, include an opening slate of public comment from citizens.

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localvore
localvore
5 years ago

When is Kshama going to spend time to think about her district? Her biggest campaigns in the past 12 months have been the showbox and now a plot of land near Northgate? (These are both things that the people who live near did not care about while D3 has its own challenges)

John Free
John Free
5 years ago

Vote the nut out. Killing the hill and Seattle. Pave our roads and stop hating everyone who works hard and pays taxes. Bye bye!

Sloopy
Sloopy
5 years ago

The worst thing about living on Capitol Hill is the lack of political choice. Either it’s a Democrat incumbent who knows they will never face a primary since the Democrats generally don’t run challengers against incumbents. Thus, they don’t actually spend a lot of time per se on the district (Chopp, Pedersen, McDermott formerly, Jayapal we’ll see but she’ll never have a real primary challenger) or it’s our well-to-do Socialist revolutionary who flat out doesn’t care about the district and doesn’t try to pretend she does.

Green party or somebody, start showing up.

Aaron Brethorst
Aaron Brethorst
5 years ago
Reply to  Sloopy

Jayapal spends a ton of time on Capitol Hill. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook to hear about when she’s in our neighborhood.

southsound22@hotmail.com
5 years ago
Reply to  Sloopy

The worst part about Seattle is the lack of choice, or diversity of thought. Hence our town looking like an open sewer.