Amazon’s lobbying arm has selected Egan Orion as the candidate most beneficial to its bottom line—and, honestly, the SECB is a little insulted.
Really? Egan Orion? This is the guy Big Business is picking to unseat two-term council member Kshama Sawant?
Sawant wants landlords to cap our rent and pay our relocation expenses if they raise the rent so high that we have to move out. Orion doesn’t. Sawant wants to reduce hate crimes by tackling the root causes of economic inequality and systemic racism. Orion’s big idea is “bike chariots.” Sawant wants to continue the fight for safe injection sites—a data-driven, scientifically proven solution to reducing drug deaths. Orion thinks the science isn’t settled. Sawant thinks we can pay for the housing, environmental protections, and transit fixes we need by taxing big businesses that skip through the loopholes in our tax code to avoid paying their fair share. Orion thinks we can find the money in the couch cushions. Sawant is an economist and a computer programmer. Orion is an event planner and “flash mob king.”