Christal Wood for Seattle Mayor

As YOUR Mayor, I will fight for:

DEMOCRACY: Improve community-government relations, and make public processes more accessible to the public. Increased accessibility can only lead to greater accountability.

JUSTICE: Make our justice system more just, credible and cost-effective. Demand more comprehensive approaches to community and domestic violence, policing and drug law. Empowering all citizens, while protecting civil liberties in a post-9/11 world.

ENVIRONMENT: Fix the shameful management problems at City Light, and implement alternative energies sooner rather than later. Our energy deficit is now more than double the entire city budget, and growing. Does that kind of leadership deserve another 4 years?

COMMUNITY: Protect neighborhoods from over development, and initiate policies which enhance affordable housing options. Citizens deserve to stay in the loop of large land use proposals-not have their hard-won comprehensive plans hijacked behind closed doors.

ECONOMY: Implement policies that foster thriving local businesses, and bring the city budget under control.

LIVING WAGE: It seems elementary to some, but not to certain entities, that wages must be livable according to the current cost of living. I am in favor of a city ordinance preventing contracting with companies who refuse to pay a living wage.