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Grant COGSWELLCAMPAIGN ADDRESS409 16th Avenue East, #16 Seattle, WA 98112 Phone: 206-726-0570 Email: cogswell@w-link.com |
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Transportation is Seattle's #1 problem. The incumbent, City Council Transportation Chair and Sound Transit board member Richard Mclver, has presided over our traffic mess for the last five years while offering no solutions for this crisis. Our city desperately needs effective mass transit. Instead, regional forces want to widen SR 520 and 1-90 for cars, which will jam our city streets and fuel sprawl, making Seattle a less pleasant, less affordable place to raise our families. Do we want this city to become like L.A.? Mr. Mclver's Sound Transit light rail plans are $2 billion over budget, and their scaled-back alignment will not reach the U-District, Northgate, or SeaTac as promised and will not carry suburban riders within our lifetime. Good transit protects the environment and promotes social justice, allowing working people and the poor, disabled, and elderly easy access to employment, housing, education, and culture. I co-authored the Monorail Initiative (I-41), creating the Elevated Transportation Company (ETC) - the agency now planning a Monorail line from North Ballard to West Seattle. While Mr. Mclver tried to dismantle the ETC, I fought for the Monorail's survival with yet another citizen-led initiative, 1-53. But I've done more than work on the Monorail. Affordable housing: Skyrocketing housing prices and high property taxes are making it difficult for lifelong Seattleites to stay here. All the more reason the city needs to spend money wisely and work with the private sector, the federal government, and Community Development Corporations (CDs) on creative solutions to house Seattleites at a price we can afford. For this reason I worked to elect Judy Nicastro and Nick Licata, and also managed the county initiative campaign against public funding of the stadiums. As a journalist, I've covered issues of fair trade; I also worked on 1-63 to protect salmon, and helped create Seattle's first on-the-street program to bring medical supplies, food and clothing to Seattle's homeless youth. We must preserve our public housing. We need independent police review in order to be fair to cops and citizens. If elected, I will demand social and fiscal responsibility in our city government. Seattle needs representatives who have a vision of what this city can and must be. I'm not trying to start a political career. I ask for your vote because I want to protect our diminishing quality of life, and to save this place we love. GRANT COGSWELL FOR CITY COUNCIL
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