Ballots will begin arriving in mailboxes across the neighborhoods around Capitol Hill, First Hill, and the Central District next week for the August 1st primary.
From there, the top two vote getters will advance to take part in the November primary to represent District 3 on the Seattle City Council.
To help you choose from the crowded field of eight candidates, CHS will be asking the candidates for answers to a focused set of D3 questions.
We’ve got some good questions to ask — you can give us a couple more.
What do you want CHS to ask the D3 candidates? Let us know and we’ll grab a few of the best ideas for the 2023 CHS D3 Primary Survey.
You can find CHS Election 2023 coverage here and more information about each candidate below.
ELECTION 2023 — CHS COVERAGE
- SHOBHIT AGARWAL: In a crowded field, latest District 3 candidate taking building by building approach
- RY ARMSTRONG: The race for District 3 had to have a Democracy Voucher candidate — Ry Armstrong just might be it
- ANDREW ASHIOFU: As D3 candidate field crowds, Ashiofu hopes unique perspectives on housing, health, and transit will change the race
- ALEX COOLEY: ‘Like, the beauty of democracy’ — Judkins Park and cannabis community leader joins ‘conversation’ for District 3 seat on the Seattle City Council
- BOBBY GOODWIN: Bobby Goodwin, a public defender who wants cops to work harder and the streets of Seattle to be safer, wants your District 3 vote
- JOY HOLLINGSWORTH: With ‘cannabis justice,’ hunger advocacy, and three generations in the Central District, Hollingsworth enters race for District 3 — UPDATE
- EFRAIN HUDNELL: This District 3 candidate wants to use affordable housing to help save Seattle from a ‘death spiral that we’ve seen in cities that have gone boom to bust in a way that only American cities do’
- ALEX HUDSON: With her heart on First Hill, Hudson joins race for District 3 with a neighborhood approach to urbanist policy
- More…
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If someone at an illegal encampment is offered services and refuses do you support arresting and charging that person with trespassing?
Do you support checking for outstanding warrants when sweeping an illegal encampment?
What do you define as being “offered services”?
No.
Will Goodwin’s name be on this ballot? If not, can one submit a write-in?
Ask the candidates – if they lose their race, what will they keep doing for the district and the city? How will they keep standing up for issues if they’re not the prevailing candidate?
Why does Seattle have the most homeless people sleeping outdoors per capita of any city in the United States by a large margin despite spending billions over the last decade?
Did you vote for Ann Davison or NTK for City Attorney? Why?
How would you grade CM Sawant’s performance as the D3 representative? A, B, C, D, or F?
What is a position you hold that is controversial or unpopular among D3 voters? I’d like to see who has some backbone about their convictions, whatever those convictions are.
Minus bike lanes and transportation, how do you propose to make Seattle a more safe, and live-able city?
Will they vote in accordance with their constituents they represent or with their own personal agendas?
hahah because D3 constituents are so monolithic!
There’s so many candidates I have no idea what how to base their politics, aside from the current incumbent.
How will you differ or be similar to Kshama Sawant?
Please ask about affordability and rent control. Will the candidate support and advocate for rent control? Will the candidate support and advocate for measures other than rent control to promote affordability with an aim of ensuring that long-time renters and local workers are not further priced out of the neighborhood? If so, what?
What are the candidates plans to address gun violence in the neighborhood? Is there a way to help SPD East Precinct feel like a less hostile and more responsive, supportive presence in the neighborhood? If so, what plans might this include? Cops walking the beat? Something else that fits with staffing levels etc?
Thank you!
Describe your experience participating in collective decision-making of a complex, challenging public policy issue, with a group of participants of divergent political positions, very different personalities and personal and professional priorities? i.e. What is your experience engaging in collective decision-making with a group of diverse individuals?
Thank you, Harriett.
What is their position on single family housing/residential small lot zoning, and what is their position on upzones across Seattle?
How would you have voted for the recent (failed) Council legislation which would allow arrest (and diversion/drug court alternatives) for those breaking state law by using drugs in public spaces? Do you favor re-introducing this legislation this fall?
Two big questions:
1) What are the key issues that D3 shares with all other districts in Seattle?
2) What are the key issues unique to D3?
1) what will you do about the pothole-ridden streets in the northern residential end of Capitol Hill?
2) what will you do about the graffiti and trash in business districts of Capitol Hill?
Ordinary citizens can help by reporting potholes to the “Find it, Fix it” app. The city response is quite good.
The city response is generally to plonk some cold patch in them… which lasts for maybe a few weeks if the road is busy, has buses or the weather is bad… Seattle stopped doing anything more than emergency maintenance on most roads about a decade ago…
The streets I am talking about are past patching. Check out Roy and 16th Ave E as an example. I do use find it fix it for big potholes.