1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you
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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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Councilmember, King County Council
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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I hope to earn a second term to build on the accomplishments from my first term. In 2002, Seattle had lost its way. The City faced a daunting $63 million budget deficit, the region lost nearly 90,000 jobs because of the national recession, dot-com bubble burst and the effect the 9/11 attacks had on our largest employer, Boeing and tourism. WTO damaged our civic pride and the tragic death of a young man during Mardi Gras made us question the safety of our streets. In the 3 1/2 years since taking office, I have worked to restore the public's confidence in local government by focusing on the basics and my four priorities: Getting Seattle moving, keeping our neighborhoods safe, creating economic opportunity for all and building strong families and healthy communities. I am very proud of Seattle's accomplishments and would like the opportunity to finish the work we've started.
I focused my attention on a handful of basic, essential services and committed to Seattle citizens that City Hall was listening to them. I made sure that when someone called the City with a problem that a real, live human being answered the phone to respond to their need. Potholes are being filled within 48 hours, a rate we haven't seen in years.
Citizens can now gather in our streets and excercise their constitutional rights of free expression without fear. I added more officers to protect our neighborhoods and modernized or rebuilt every firestation in our city as part of my work to make Seattle the best-prepared City in the nation---ready to respond to any emergency.
We closed the budget gap by cutting costs, learning to live within our means, and setting four clear priorities for the City's investments in its future. Our economy is growing again bringing 60,000 new jobs and unprecedented opportunities like the growing biotech industry in South Lake Union.
We’ve finally moved beyond years of endless discussion about how bad our transportation is to actually doing something about it. We’re building light rail. We’ve focused local, state and national attention on the crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct. As a result, the state has dedicated an unprecedented $2 billion and Congress has recently committed $231 million.
Several long-neglected neighborhoods are receiving new investments, such as Northgate, Broadway, the U-District and Southeast Seattle. My Center City Strategy will encourage more housing and jobs in and around the City's downtown heart and increased home ownership and affordable housing opportunities throughout the City.
Seattle is a world environmental leader -- restoring our waters, protecting our air, and creating livable neighborhoods to prevent urban sprawl. Recently, I issued a challenge to Mayors across America to meet the letter and spirit of the Kyoto Protocol to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I am pleased to say that over 170 Mayors have agreed to meet my challenge.
I look forward to asking the voters of Seattle for another term to finish the work we started, build on our accomplishments and ultimately make a difference in people's lives. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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I got involved in politics at age 16 and local government at 19. I have a life long passion for using politics and public service as a way to create positive change. My record clearly demonstrates my leadership. It is based on setting clear priorities, listening to diverse perspectives and ideas, but then taking decisive leadership to deliver results. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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I have nearly 30 years of experience in bringing people together to get things done. I began my career in public service at the age of 18, when I interned for United States Senator Warren G. Magnuson in Washington, DC.
I began working for the City of Seattle in its purchasing and community development departments. I joined the office of Seattle City Councilmember Norm Rice as his Legislative Assistant in 1979 to 1987, when I campaigned for and won election to the King County Council as the youngest member ever elected to the 9 member council. As a King County Councilmember for fourteen years, I represented the communities of West Seattle, White Center, Burien, and Vashon Island.
I served as chair of the Seattle/King County Board of Health from 1996-2001. I took on the tobacco industry advertising aimed at kids and had the Marlboro Man banned from the Kingdome. I succeeded in removing graphically violent video games from Seattle Center.
I have been a passionate advocate of creating a mass transit system and improving bus transit for our region.
Since I was elected Seattle's 51st Mayor in 2001, I focused the City on getting back to basics and restoring Seattle citizens trust in City Hall.
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I have had a relentless focus on re-connecting the City to its people, earning their trust and spending their tax dollars wisely. This means delivering excellence in basic services, being a steward of the City's financial health in good times and preparing for lean times, and leading toward a vision for Seattle's future---listening to diverse voices and perspectives, and then delivering results.
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EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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Seattle Prepatory School University of Washington |
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org