As a state senator down in Olympia, JKW was a good, solid Democrat. But JKW will have to step that lefty shit up if she’s going to be on the King County Council. Being a good progressive in King County means being further left than what we expected of you in the morally bankrupt, right-tilting state legislature.
In Olympia, Kohl-Welles worked on issues we care about like marijuana and paid parental leave, but she has also depended on deeply flawed anti-sex-work “research” to defend her belief that sex buying should stay criminalized instead of fighting to empower sex workers with labor rights. King County is a place with all the affordability issues Seattle is facing, plus a huge responsibility for funding the local criminal justice system, plus a budget that we’ve reported looks like “a slasher film.” Despite all that, SECB members were sleep-drooling on the conference table while Kohl-Welles tried to explain even one concrete idea for what she would do at the county.
Don’t get us wrong. You still have to vote for Jeanne Kohl-Welles in this race.
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