King County Elections, Margaret Elisabeth

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Margaret is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, and they were raised in Libya. They has lived in Seattle for 11 years. They have a bachelor's degree in information science from the University of Kentucky. They live in Rainier Beach.

Margaret is co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. They used to be the owner of Blackcat Electronics and a senior system engineer at Raxco Software, Inc.

Margaret Elisabeth's campaign for city council is her first entry into politics. If elected, they would be the first transgender city council member in Seattle.

Wants to invest more into public transportation and safe biking lanes.

- Wants to invest more into public transportation and safe biking lanes.

Transportation & Infrastructure

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Supports rent control and renter's rights, building mixed-income developments, banning new AirBnB developments, and expanding social housing, which is rental units owned by the government or a nonprofit.

Wants to end single-family zoning in order to build more high-density housing and mixed income housing near transit centers.

Said, "[w]e need to address the housing crisis by first ensuring that high quality public housing is guaranteed to all who would prefer not to live in market-rate housing."

Supports converting unused office space downtown into housing.

- Supports rent control and renter's rights, building mixed-income developments, banning new AirBnB developments, and expanding social housing, which is rental units owned by the government or a nonprofit. 
- Wants to end single-family zoning in order to build more high-density housing and mixed income housing near transit centers.
- Said, "[w]e need to address the housing crisis by first ensuring that high quality public housing is guaranteed to all who would prefer not to live in market-rate housing."
- Supports converting unused office space downtown into housing.

Housing & Urban Development

Promises to make sure that Seattle reaches its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.

Wants to prepare for an influx of people moving to Seattle because the city is viewed as a "safe" climate destination.

Supports preparing for sea level rise and divesting from fossil fuel companies and financial institutions that invest in fossil fuel companies.

Wants to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles by creating a carbon tax on vehicles driving on city streets.

- Promises to make sure that Seattle reaches its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030. 
- Wants to prepare for an influx of people moving to Seattle because the city is viewed as a "safe" climate destination.
- Supports preparing for sea level rise and divesting from fossil fuel companies and financial institutions that invest in fossil fuel companies. 
- Wants to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles by creating a carbon tax on vehicles driving on city streets.

Environment

Wants to create a citywide universal single payer healthcare system to give residents free at point of service healthcare without them relying on employer-sponsored plans or private insurance.

Supports a $25 hour minimum wage, which would be automatically adjusted based on the cost of healthcare, housing, food, transportation, and inflation.

Wants to equalize funding for public schools across all schools in the city so that each student receives a quality education, as well as provide free school breakfasts and lunches.

Supports ranked choice voting and wants to implement it by 2025.

- Wants to create a citywide universal single payer healthcare system to give residents free at point of service healthcare without them relying on employer-sponsored plans or private insurance. 
- Supports a $25 hour minimum wage, which would be automatically adjusted based on the cost of healthcare, housing, food, transportation, and inflation.
- Wants to equalize funding for public schools across all schools in the city so that each student receives a quality education, as well as provide free school breakfasts and lunches. 
- Supports ranked choice voting and wants to implement it by 2025. 
- Plans to raise teacher pay.

Public Services

Opposes increasing the police department to 1,400 police officers and opposes increasing the police department's budget.

Supports creating a new department for non-police emergency response.

Opposes prosecuting people for public drug use.

- Opposes increasing the police department to 1,400 police officers and opposes increasing the police department's budget. 
- Supports creating a new department for non-police emergency response.  
- Opposes prosecuting people for public drug use.

Public Safety

Margaret Elisabeth

- City council members work together with the rest of city council to set and implement city policy, including passing legislation about the police, fire department, parks, libraries, electricity, water, solid waste, and drainage utilities. 
- City council members work with the mayor to govern city departments, such as the police department, fire department, transportation department, and parks and recreation department.
- City council members serve four year terms, and elections are nonpartisan. City council members are either elected to represent specific districts or are elected at-large, meaning that they represent the entire city. 