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Lorena González Envisions a More Equitable City in [Seattle] Mayoral Bid
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 04, 2021 12:04pm |
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| Author | Ashley Archibald |
| Media | Newspaper - The Urbanist |
| News Date | Thursday, February 4, 2021 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | González is a known quantity in Seattle government and governance. She’s currently serving a second term in an at-large council position, races she won with more than 70% of the vote (expect a scramble of candidates to run for her now open seat). Before that, she spent a decade as a civil rights attorney, sometimes taking on the police department of the city she would later help run.
But González is also grounded in her childhood experience as a migrant farmworker working in the fields of central Washington with her family members. Even now, family is never far away–her septuagenarian mother-in-law lives in the same building as González, her husband and their one-year-old daughter. She wields that maternal experience when talking policy too, arguing for more–and cheaper–childcare and paid parental leave so that it wouldn’t take a pandemic to allow her daughter to have both parents home in a formative time (even if working from home with an infant takes some doing).
The Urbanist sat down via video chat with González to talk about her motivations for office and policy. |
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