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- Shari Song kicks ass.
Okay, this endorsement is actually important: Shari Song is a Korean immigrant and a successful businesswoman running on a meat-‘n’-potatoes platform of paying for parks, attracting living-wage jobs, and improving transit and roads. She’s also the first Democrat with a serious shot at winning this seat. This is the second-fastest-growing district in the county, an area where the white population dropped by 14 percent from 2002 to 2012, while those identifying as an ethnic minority jumped by 66 percent. Song has worked for decades as a community advocate for immigrants—in the early 1990s, she started a bilingual preschool program to prepare immigrant children for kindergarten. Song also plans to show up for her goddamn job. That’s better than Council Member Reagan Dunn, who has the council’s worst attendance record with 491 votes missed. When he did show up, Dunn, a Republican, tried in his last term to gut the health department’s funding while attempting to give raises to the sheriff’s office. Dunn is a shitbag. Vote Song.
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