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| Last Edited | RBH Mar 15, 2013 08:22am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As a write-in candidate last year against House Speaker Frank Chopp, Socialist Alternative candidate Kshami Sawant earned about 29 percent of the vote. That makes her her party’s great hope for this year’s Seattle City Council election. Sawant announced today she will challenge Richard Conlin, a four-term incumbent whom she said speaks progressive rhetoric but really serves downtown business interests and the wealthy.
Sawant, who teaches economics at Seattle Central Community College, got interested in politics during the Occupy Seattle protests in 2011. She knows she might not be able to beat a well-established candidate like Conlin, though she hopes to.
“As an activist, we measure our success by how much we were able to shift the debate,” she said. “We will be shifting the political conversation to the left.” |
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