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Michael PRESTON
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As a twenty year veteran of the Seattle School Board I have accomplished all I set out to do. I helped to eliminate Forced Bussing and implement school choice, keep our public schools commercial free, make peace between the teacher's union, board and administration. I helped to stop Corporal Punishment, enhanced funding for low income and foreign born students, and decentralize the district to deliver more resources and decision making to individual schools. The City needs the kind of leadership I have provided for the school district. Government must work for the least, the lost, and the left out in order to work for us all. We must have public officials in every office who can move the civility, social justice and quality of life discussion to the forefront of social discourse with compassion, fairness, and credibility. My campaign will focus on three areas: Human Rights and Social Justice, Transportation, and Neighborhood Empowerment. I will lead the people of Seattle in learning to understand the root of fear and lack of trust that threatens to undo decades of progress in racial and cultural relations in Seattle. We protect the environment by requiring environmental impact statements for major projects. I propose that we value human rights as highly by requiring a Human Rights Impact Statement on major policy initiatives to protect Seattle residents. We must work to increase trust and reduce fear on both sides of the equation between the police and the community. I will lead an effort to place video cameras in all police cars in the City of Seattle. When it comes to Light Rail -- just say NO. We should not build this Train to Nowhere. Surface trains on neighborhood streets will threaten small businesses, safety and quality of life in that neighborhood. I will support an ordinance banning light rail on surface streets throughout Seattle. We can do more with less money using other technologies -- Monorail, Bus Rapid Transit Van Pools! Keep the busses in the downtown bus tunnel. Neighborhood plans must be brought from the planning periphery and placed at the center of city government. My vision for a better quality of life in our beautiful city can become a reality for al of us. I am asking for your vote on September 18.
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