Speaking to KUOW late last year, Oliver called for a model that would eventually lead to the elimination of police entirely. “We don’t need a separate institution to keep the peace or enforce the laws,” she said

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We definitely need a lively debate and more urgency on housing affordability, but if they're gonna come out swingin' against HALA, then they sure as hell better have more specifics in their policy platform: Like which additional neighborhoods should be rezoned/upzoned and what mix of SF, multi-family, market-rate and affordable/subsidized, etc.

Without a war plan, those dead-eyed, white, Boomer, single-family supremacist NIMBYs will chew their freakin' faces off.

So she wants to "pause" growth in the housing supply at a time when jobs and people are coming fast and furious, AND make sure the beneficiaries of the San Francisconian spike in home values that will surely follow don't have pay taxes on the windfall she's created for them?

This is a political platform a wealthy homeowner could endorse, but I'll be damned if I can think of any reason someone who considers themselves a progressive would do so.

The more I read about her views on development and housing, the clearer it becomes that she's either on board with the NIMBY project or is setting herself up to be their useful idiot. The naive belief that we can simply solve our problems by turning the MFA requirements up to 11 without discouraging new housing from being built is being egged on by people who actually want to discourage new housing from being built.

Rent control folks, what's your favorite example of rent control working well?

@3 yeah, I don't think she's actually a Manchurian candidate for the NIMBYs, but her platform is weirdly close to what it would be if she were.

Can we legally give property tax relief to people who need it instead of to 5%er homeowners like me?

@5 right. I'm on board with plans to help low income people stay in their suddenly-valuable home of many decades. But a general reduction in property tax is basically Trumpian; it's an upward redistribution in wealth. Does she know Seattle can't run a giant deficit? If she's planning to slash the city's revenue to give a tax cut to (mostly) well-off people while promising lots of increased funding is deeply dishonest.

I was at a public event two years ago when Ms. Oliver stated that, as a woman of color, it is impossible for her to be racist.

Whether that statement increases or decreases your support for Ms. Oliver's mayoral candidacy depends on your personal taste. But it is a thing she said.

I'm a progressive liberal and these are the people giving that group a bad name. This platform doesn't push innovation and creative efforts to solve current problems at all.

A healthy dose of math and realism should be required for public office.

If this is a "serious challenger," I'd hate to see what a clown candidate looks like.

@ 9
http://www.smartgrowthseattle.org/new-ca…

What @9 said. I'm sure the mayor is shaking in his boots.

Newly founded "Seattle Workers Party" and "Speaking to KUOW late last year, Oliver called for a model that would eventually lead to the elimination of police entirely. “We don’t need a separate institution to keep the peace or enforce the laws,” she said. (Maybe a military force?). This is starting to sound like the rise of Nazism if you ask me. Ah history, how thou doth love to repeat itself.

Too bad she seems to have a big heart and a very small brain

Community policing is far older than your beloved United States of America . . . .

@13: Didn't you just post a contradiction? Is that veiled Racism?

@12: You DO know who funded the Nazis, right? (& Adolf sent fan mail to his favorite White Racists HERE when he was a political small fry . . . .)

@2: You DO know there's 18 MILLION empty houses in the United States of America - THREE for every ONE "offical" homeless person - do you not? Perhaps it is common sense to allow them to live in those already-up-to-code residential properties? . . . .--- http://www.nationalhomeless.org