ELECTION 2023: Questions for our City Council forum? P.S. We’ve added County Council candidates too

Both City Council District 1 candidates campaigned over the weekend, walking in South Park’s Fiesta Patrias parade, as our photos show. One week from tonight, Rob Saka and Maren Costa will be at the next WSB-presented candidate forum, Monday, September 25th, at the Senior Center of West Seattle (4217 SW Oregon). Starting tonight, we invite you to email questions – the candidates will have more time to answer than during our primary forum with eight candidates, but we still appreciate very specific questions. If you have a question to suggest, please email westseattleblog@gmail.com.

Same goes if you have any suggested questions for the candidates we’ve just added to the forum – we’ll open the night by talking with the two candidates for King County Council District 8, which includes West Seattle, White Center, Vashon and Maury Islands, and Burien. We haven’t seen many planned forums in this race, so we decided to add one to our event. We will talk with candidates Sofia Aragon and Teresa Mosqueda at 6:30 pm, and will switch to the City Council candidates at 7:15 pm. Again, this is all happening next Monday night, September 25th, at the Senior Center – you’re welcome to come watch either or both. And if you can’t get there in person, we’ll be recording and publishing video of both shortly after the event.

Graciano September 18, 2023 (7:42 pm)

I have a single question for all of them, Will they make crime illegal again?

Derek September 19, 2023 (5:24 am)

The problem is “crime” anymore just means “being poor” as the rich who commit wage theft and union busting and violate tenant rights aren’t in jail.
- WebsiteAlki September 22, 2023 (4:06 pm)
  
  A good question then, is if the rich are at war with the poor; can a multi-millionaire truly represent all of District 1?
DC September 19, 2023 (8:35 am)

You will be delighted to know, they both want crime to be illegal. In fact, it already is! The real question is whether the police will actually do their job. Or will they continue to look at our city with distain holding a childish, deadly THREE YEAR grudge against people demanding greater accountability and ‘defunding the police’ (something the city never followed through on). It’s time for the police to get over it, and start changing their culture to one that cares for our city and people actually want to join. I challenge you to read this article from someone who has been against the ‘defund’ movement from the beginning and see if you disagree. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/feel-safer-yet-seattle-police-unions-contempt-keeps-showing-through/
- Anne September 19, 2023 (10:25 am)
  
  Oh right-Danny Westneat-what a freaking whiner. I take every word he says with 10 grains of salt. Politicians local & state have greatly diminished what LE can do & when they can do it. I am personally sick of people saying LE don’t care for our city & our citizens.
  - MacJ September 19, 2023 (2:32 pm)
    
    I’m sick of law enforcement electing SPOG leadership that say our citizens have “limited value”. If they care maybe they could try acting like it.

Scarlett September 19, 2023 (10:33 am)

The “tough love” message would be much easier to sell if upward mobility wasn’t such a Sisyphean task in our society. We, individually and collectively, are not the same country we were pre-pandemic and will never be again.

C.Porter September 19, 2023 (4:59 pm)

Petty thefts are on the rise ( stolen Amazon, FEDEX, and USP packages, as well as grab and run from local stores). . Will you enforce the law and jail people even if it means using a prove jail?( asked on behalf of a store owner).

k September 22, 2023 (4:26 pm)

City Council members are not law enforcement agents. Hopefully whoever is elected knows what their job is and does that, and not what random people on internet message boards think their job should be.

Chris Porter September 19, 2023 (5:12 pm)

As some of the local grocery stores, owned by Kroger, are slated to close, this could have uneven greater impact on food deserts that have never been addressed. What is your plan to address food deserts in the district that have not been adequately addressed in the past beyond coops and food banks, remembering that our local food banks are seeing beyond their usual capacity.

Marcus G. September 22, 2023 (3:42 pm)

I’m tired of out of touch elites “representing” West Seattle. Please tell me what in your background would help me to believe that you could empathize with those of us considered low-income/underserved?

BeatlesAreBest September 22, 2023 (3:54 pm)

Question: Not long ago we marched together to say that black lives matter. Do you believe that the problems brought up at that time have been resolved? If not, what are you personally doing to ensure that black lives matter?

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