This year Democrats* stand a chance of banishing Republicans from the King County Council entirely, which would end a lot of the slow-rolling, obstructionism, and general fuckery they contribute to an already achingly slow legislative body. Of the three remaining red seats, this one seems ripest for the picking, but only if Issaquah’s Sarah Perry makes it through the primary. She’s the only candidate who could—and who actually should!—win this race.
Perry radiates enthusiasm for many of the SECB’s policy priorities. She gave us a “heck ya!” in support of decriminalizing sex work (using the Nordic model, unfortunately), and she threw her support behind decriminalizing all drugs so that we can start treating addiction like the public health issue it is. She also wants to end youth incarceration “ASAP,” end fare enforcement, and, when asked if she’d work to add more reliable bus service to her transit-starved district, she blurted out, “Jesus, God, yes!”
