Introductory statements from Shoreline Council candidates on primary ballot
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
By Evan Smith
Only one Shoreline City Council position is on the Aug. 4 primary ballot.
That’s because only the contest among incumbent Jesse Salomon and challengers Lorn Richey and Michael Bachety has three or more candidates. That means that the primary will narrow the field to two for the Nov. 3 general election. Two other Shoreline positions will appear only on the November ballot, one with a single candidate, one with two candidates.
Bachety, Richey and Salomon recently sent introductory statements. Here they are in the order they will appear on the primary ballot and in the voters’ pamphlet:
Shoreline City Council Position No. 6—
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| Lorn Richey |
Lorn Richey
I am running for Shoreline City Council because I believe my values, education and experience have prepared me for the challenges Shoreline is facing. My wife and I moved here almost five years ago and our two children attend the outstanding public schools. I worked my way through college as a groundskeeper, under Ciscoe Morris, helping to transform my university’s campus into a pesticide-free, wildlife sanctuary. As a student I was a founding member of the SU Sustainability Council. After graduating, I spent the last nine years in law enforcement, returning to Seattle U to earn a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in urban development.
I am concerned about the current trend development is taking in this region. Development should build for the future while benefiting current residents. Far too much of it is displacing residents, and degrading our urban environment. People move to Shoreline for safe, welcoming community, the natural beauty, and the schools. As your City Council Member I will work to protect those things.
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| Jesse Salomon |
Jesse Salomon
Work: Shoreline City Council member and King County public defender
Education: Juris Doctor, UW Law, B.A. WWU
Last election I asked for your vote to keep Shoreline moving forward. Since then I’ve helped grow our economy, protect our environment, reduce traffic, and promote equity and public safety by:
Preparing for impacts of Shoreline’s two light-rail stations by planning walkable communities, minimizing disruption and increasing property values in affected neighborhoods; supporting the farmer’s market and attracting a Trader Joe’s; funding sidewalks and affordable housing; fighting the ill-considered Point Wells development; analyzing city budgets to cut unnecessary spending; supporting funding for our senior center and paid sick leave for low wage workers; increasing salmon habitat; and reducing carbon emissions.
I ask your continued support to keep Shoreline moving forward.
Endorsements include: Councilmembers Chris Eggen, Will Hall, Keith McGlashan; State Representatives Ruth Kagi, Luis Moscoso; Attorney General Bob Ferguson; County Sheriff John Urquart; County Councilmember Rod Dembowski; Seattle Mayor Ed Murray; Labor Council, Conservation Voters; NARAL; Young Democrats.
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| Michael Bachety |
Michael Bachety
I grew up the 5th child in a middle-class family from Long Island, NY. I never envisioned going into politics mainly because my mom was a feminist politician of the 1960’s-80’s. I did not like how misogynistic and hateful some people were towards her, but she fought the good fight and was reelected many times as a Democrat in the largely Republican district.
I graduated college with a B.A. in communications and worked in television production for 14 years until 9/11 happened. This changed me profoundly.
After taking a year off, my girlfriend and I drove cross-country to start a new life together in the beautiful NW. We got engaged on the road and married in 2004 on a boat in the Puget Sound.
We moved to Shoreline, from Green Lake, when she was pregnant with our first child in 2009. Like many families, the reasons were similar: good schools, bigger backyards and nice, quiet neighborhoods. Today, as Mr. Mom, we have 3 little girls and hope to live here for many years to come.
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Salomon hasn't lifted a finger in fighting Point Wells. Same goes for the rest of City Council and staff. By the same token, should we send him a thank you note when Trader Joe's opens?
Anyone but Salomon. The North remembers.
Agreed. Anyone on the current council (Salomon) who voted for the rezoning will never get my vote.
Salomon is making some pretty substantial statements here. Care to back them them with facts?
Your Shoreline constituents believe in progress, change, environmental protection, and moving forward, but not at the detriment of our stable, established, safe neighborhoods and schools.
You've helped “grow” the economy? How so? Are you taking credit for the fact that you were voted into office during the worst recession since the great depression and the economy is now (finally) improving?
What, specifically, have you done to “ protect our environment”? Approve an upzone for a light rail station area that will eventually ignite a feeding frenzy of property aggregators, speculators, and “non-profit” organizations with with lobbyists in tow to buy people out of their modest homes before they realize how much their property will be worth once the light rail station is in place? Any response to the lack of tree retention codes in the new development regulations for the light rail subareas? When you take concious part in approving such gregarious plans, the blame, in part, falls on your shoulders. If you take part in an upzone that ignites rash redevelopment, the environmental impact of old home carcasses in the garbage dump and the environmental impact of manufacturing new home materials and the associated pollution, and the transport of waste and new materials brought in, is not environmentally friendly. There's a reason the well known phrase of re-use, re-new, recycle is ordered as such. Primary term being RE-USE...as in... refresh, remodel, enhance, improve these old structures that were built in a time when people built things to last. Not these plastic, corrigated aluminium, cheap pieces of crap, that will fall apart in a couple decades, which is more detriment for the environment, but great for the building industry, no?
What, specifically, did you do to reduce traffic? Approve an upzone with a too small parking garage adjacent to the light rail station and approve development regualations for high-density housing with inadequate parking? This unicorn logic of “less is more” and that high-density near transit is not going to increase traffic is the logic of pegasus, dragons, and faeries! Aurora Square, Point Wells, Echo Lake, Centerpointe Apts... carryover use from the North, South, and EAST will inundate the roads and parking garages of the Shoreline light rail stations.
“and promote equity and public safety by” What? Setting the stage for demolition (by willing sellers of buyers, of course wink). For developers, the only profitable way to redevelop for max profit, is density (especially considering those golden ticket tax exemptions from the City), will those redevelopments occur by snatching up expensive homes or inexpensive homes? You guessed it.. inexpensive, AFFORDABLE homes. Once these opportunities of affordable single family homes in Shoreline dissappears, the opportunity of equity will also dissappear, and with in the “variety and choice of housing stock” in our fair City.
Walkable community? Shoreline is walkable. It's actually bikable, too. While we're at it. It's livable, vibrant, and robust.
Minimizing disruption? Uh.. no. This upzone YOU voted for is promoting, encouraging, and igniting disruption. Who do you think you're kidding with that statement?
Increasing property values? I thought one of the City's cheers (disguised as fear-mongering) for the upzone was to keep property values and PROPERTY TAXES affordable? Are you again taking credit for something that you had no part in? For example, when you stated that you “improved Shoreline's economy”?
Increasing salmon habitat, you say? How again is setting the stage for over-development the City with no plan for water-shed protection considered “increasing salmon habitat”?
“reducing carbon emissions”? How so? By approving plans to over-densify the City, throwing the tree-retention requirements for high-density out the front door?
@Serpy - Make sure you include Chris Roberts in that group. The vote was 5-2
Well said @4:36. Citizens of Shoreline, we do need to continue to move forward, but without Jesse Salomon on OUR City Council. You've served your term and now it's time for a change!!
The North Remembers? Watching too much Game of Thrones are we?
Shoreline is NOT walkable nor bike-friendly! Growth is coming whether you like it or not. Let's plan for it in ways that make the city more attractive and livable. NOT more Aurora Ave sprawl. I'm supporting progress. Not those afraid of change.
Sure anon 11:20am, that's why you NEVER EVER see cyclists using the BIKE LANES on 185th, is it? Or people walking around neighborhoods. Multiplying the density in these neighborhoods is a guaranteed way to make it NOT safe for cycling or walking by the sheer number of additional cars that will come with this density. Upzoning the light rail areas to the level that has been decided is going guarantee us 2 new "mini Aurora Aves" running East to West. How's that for sprawl? These accusations of those opposed to the level of upzoning the City has decided upon of being "anti-progress" or "anti-change" are really getting boring, because we both know that's simply not true. Can't "you folks" come up with anything better?Too busy blindly following along and nodding your head to what someone has labeled for you as "progress"?
You're supporting progress? I think you mean progre$$.
As a bike commuter in Shoreline, it's news to me that Shoreline is not bike friendly. The Interurban Trail is less than a 5 minute ride from home and takes me most of the way into downtown for work. In fact, the safest part of the Interurban Trail is the section going through Shoreline as it's not shared with cars. I can easily bike to Fred Meyer, Costco/Home Depot and soon Trader Joes all in around 5 minutes.
Granted if I'm going to Costco/Home Depot, I'm usually purchasing something too big to carry home on my bike. I can also take the bike lane on 185th east over I-5 and continue over the hill down Perkins Way to Lake Forest Park/Kenmore and link up with the Burke Gilman trail.
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