This South Seattle district is currently represented by Council President Bruce Harrell. But Harrell is retiring, and longtime community advocate Tammy Morales, who came within a few hundred votes of pushing Harrell into retirement back in 2015—just like the SECB wanted her to!—is still the right person to take Harrell’s job.
Morales grew up with a mom holding down three jobs, sometimes living in public housing. She wants to “serve working families so they don’t have to struggle the way my family did.” She has a master’s degree in community planning and experience working on tough issues in Texas, New York, and Seattle. Most importantly, she’s ready to tax Big Business and fight for more progressive taxation in general. “We can’t keep growing this city on the backs of working folks,” Morales says—to which the SECB says, RIGHT ON.
