This is especially important because District 3 has a high number of people dealing with this condition and I aim to ensure every person has access to the treatment they need to survive. The great thing about legislative processes is that laws can change, and with our campaign in office you will see us fight for the working people of Seattle to create housing solutions to make sure people can actually work and live in our city’s center.Īshiofu: I worked as a part of a team with King County that implemented increased access to AIDS/HIV treatment and PrEP.
I have also more recently been working toward implementing and supporting a Trans Bill of Rights in collaboration with Councilmember Sawant’s office and pushing toward rent control legislation that so many people struggling to pay rising rents want to see in our city despite the State law. Between these issues and the urgent issue of reproductive rights, this work is just as important on the local level as it is on the national level, and I would be proud to fight to protect these rights on the Seattle City Council.Īrmstrong: I grew up singing in the Northwest Choirs and Vocalpoint Seattle, so I would say in my early days it would be contributing to the Arts scene here on the Hill, but now I find myself listening to the Queer community about what they want to see in our community via the Seattle LGBTQ Commission. I was then and am still interested in advocating not just for our marriage rights that are so dear to me and increasingly threatened today, but for all queer people, and especially trans people, people of color, and trans people of color. The founders of the group, a lesbian South Asian couple, were plaintiffs in the 2005 case fighting for same-sex marriage but unfortunately lost at the Washington State Supreme Court.
Prior to 2010, I was involved in Trikone-NW, a local LGBT organization focused on queer South Asians.
We got married less than a year after Washington State voted to legalize same-sex marriage, and two years before it was legalized nationally. Q: What is a specific example of a change you were part of that has made District 3 a better place? What was your role?Īgarwal: I am a first-generation gay immigrant from India who has been married to my husband for ten years. Here are all of the D3 Primary Survey answers organized by question:
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You can find our full coverage of the 2023 primary here. You can view every candidate's answers at one time on the All Candidates D3 Primary Survey Results Page here. Now it will be up to you to hold them to it - and show up. A lot of them have heard the complaints and are promising greater access and office hours in the district. Meanwhile, after years of complaints about challenges in connecting with the D3 representative's office, we also asked each candidate about their plans to connect with the communities they represent. We also asked how they would address issues around the community's relationship with the East Precinct. With help from readers, we asked what specific ideas make each candidate stand out and what positions were they willing to take heat for supporting. We asked the candidates about everything from policing to single family zoning to homelessness and lidding I-5.
As you consider your August 1st primary ballot, we have 88 answers for you. CHS asked the eight candidates running in the District 3 primary election eleven questions about how they would serve the neighborhoods around Capitol Hill, the Central District, and First Hill on the Seattle City Council.
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