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Primary Election Voters' Guide |
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Introduction |
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Video Voters' Guide |
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Whittemore Campaign QuikLinks |
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Home Primary Voters' Guide Contributions by Area Contributions by Size List of Contributors Employers of Contributors Expenditures by Type Contributions by Type |
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Council Position 1 |
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Chow Hegamin Nicastro Norton |
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Council Position 3 |
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Hennick Jones Lippmann Steinbrueck |
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Council Position 5 |
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Carter Firestone Pageler Rodosovich |
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Council Position 7 |
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Brooks Chong Freeman Lawton Whittemore Wills |
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Council Position 9 |
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Compton Fisken Mason Scully |
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Links to Non-Seattle Voters' Pamphlets |
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Thomas WHITTEMORE
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Click Here to View the Statement of Thomas Whittemore |
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Seattle needs experienced citizens sitting on the City Council, those who have a record working in our urban communities and have demonstrated a commitment to improving the quality of our lives. Thomas Whittemore has that record: ·Organizing individuals and groups to deal effectively with growth as President of the Ballard District Council, ·Helping create alternative transit options by bus and train for our neighborhoods as Route 86 Committee Chair and Ballard Rail Station Committee Chair, ·Restoring our urban forest as a Treemendous Seattle Board Member and East Ballard Community Association Co-chair, ·Engaging students in watershed protection as a Ravenna Creek Alliance Board Member, ·Developing programs to involve all our neighbors, including those with developmental disabilities, in community activities as an Involving All Neighbors ACT Team Member, ·Challenging elected officials to respect the rights of low income citizens with the Tenants Union, ·Defending our right of free speech with the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and ·Drawing as a cartoonist to alter the political and social landscape when critical issues confront us. "As a City Council member, my foremost concern will be growth management in Seattle: decent and affordable housing, challenging education, family wage jobs, community based public safety programs, efficient mass transit and environmental restoration, all are necessities for neighborhoods to absorb development. Increased density should not occur at the expense of critical social values and civil liberties. We can build neighborhoods based on inclusion of everyone or we can develop a place of exclusion, a place that disregards the value of each citizen. We must not plan on policies of exclusion." Having spent elementary school years in Bellingham, Washington, Thomas finished secondary school in New York City, received a B.A. from Harvard College and completed his master's degree in physical anthropology at the University of Chicago. Traveling for work and education around the world he was overwhelmed by the efforts of people to achieve democratic societies. Their sacrifices for new freedoms inspired Thomas to act with conviction here in Seattle and abroad. Following the Philippine revolution in the 1986, he was awarded a People Power Medal of Honor. He received an award for outstanding leadership in the media from the Rivers Council of Washington in 1996. Thomas Whittemore is a free lance cartoonist and is married to Michele Broderick whose strength has reinforced her husband's devotion to community service. |