<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Awesome, thanks Harry! The bivariate regressions map is super interesting. Anyone else want to help with all this?<div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Harry Maher <<a href="mailto:harryb.maher@gmail.com" class="">harryb.maher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Katie and friends,</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Happy to work with whoever/whenever on this! Probably busy this week, but have some time on the weekend or next week--let me know what works for whoever is interested in working on this.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some thoughts inline below in red</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 8:34 AM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Well, I never followed up about rescheduling this meeting. However, we do now have a couple of better-defined research questions that some of you might have ideas about how to pursue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m trying to compile some basic data about the South King County cities. So far I’ve put together the table below. Here are some things that would be useful to know about each city:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Number of people<i class=""> eligible</i> to vote. I have no idea if this is known/estimated anywhere.</li></ul></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">No idea if an estimate exists somewhere, but I'd think it'd be the same as ACS for citizens above 18 years of age, unless I'm not thinking of some corner cases (people registered in other states??). They do ask the citizenship question on ACS. It'd be interesting to see if theres race/language data on those currently registered to see if there are patterns among those who aren't registered. Could also be a fun mapping project if we mapped voters to their home addresses.<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">Here's a start: </font><a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Citizenship&g=1600000US5303180,5308850,5317635,5323515,5335415,5349415,5357745,5362288,5372625&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2901&hidePreview=true" class="">https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Citizenship&g=1600000US5303180,5308850,5317635,5323515,5335415,5349415,5357745,5362288,5372625&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2901&hidePreview=true </a></div><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Voting results in some key past elections, e.g.</li><ul class=""><li class="">2016 and 2020 presidential elections</li><li class="">Statewide ballot measures: 1098, 1433, 1631, maybe others that would give us a sense of how progressive the existing electorate is along various axes?</li><li class="">Local & county ballot measures: any that seem relevant to getting a political sense of the existing electorate</li></ul></ul></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">- I'm not sure they break out by city, so it'd take a little work to get results for precinct, join precincts by geography to city boundaries and tabulate results. We can also make some fun leaflet maps. I did one that didn't directly map election results, but tried to parse this out a bit with some bivariate regressions mapped: <a href="https://raincitymaps.github.io/maps/scattermap/" class="">https://raincitymaps.github.io/maps/scattermap/</a> kind of a start to some of these questions, but just one election (2016)</font> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Population breakdown by race/ethnicity & language</li></ul></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">All ACS stuff, & easy to look up on <a href="http://data.census.gov/" class="">data.census.gov</a> for whatever we want. Eg. </font><a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=race&g=1600000US5303180,5308850,5317635,5323515,5335415,5349415,5357745,5362288,5372625&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B02001&hidePreview=true" class="">https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=race&g=1600000US5303180,5308850,5317635,5323515,5335415,5349415,5357745,5362288,5372625&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B02001&hidePreview=true</a></div><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""> If we want some maps, we can use their API: </font><a href="https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html" class="">https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html</a></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class="">I have no idea how easy any of this is to find or put together. Thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, if any of this is a lot of work and you need to leave some cities off, we can probably drop Normandy Park and Auburn (which don’t have initiative processes anyway) and perhaps Des Moines.</div><div class=""><br class="">Happy to chat/meet to talk through any of this!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="gmail-m_7577396403358167350docs-internal-guid-d26cab66-7fff-28e1-1b6e-cff101068f3e" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:16pt" class=""><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">South King County Cities</span></p><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="margin-left:0pt" class=""><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse" class=""><colgroup class=""><col width="113" class=""><col width="113" class=""><col width="103" class=""><col width="117" class=""><col width="112" class=""><col width="120" class=""></colgroup><tbody class=""><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">City</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Population (2019)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><a href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/city-registration-demographics.aspx" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Registered Voters</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> (%)*</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Valid Initiative Sigs (15%)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Initiative Sigs w/ 30% buffer</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Median Indiv. Income* (2019)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Burien</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">51,477</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">29,667 (58)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">4,450</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">5,785</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">32,585</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Tukwila</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">20,196</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">10,975 (54)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">1,646</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">2,140</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">30,356</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Renton</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">101,484</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">59,745 (59)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">8,962</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">11,650</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">39,919</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Kent</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">131,118</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">70,590 (54)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">10,589</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">13,765</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">33,867</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">SeaTac</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">29,019</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">14,885 (51)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">2,233</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">2,903</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">31,203</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Federal Way</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">96,526</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">52,508 (54)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">7,876</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">10,239</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">34,960</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Auburn</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">80,134</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">39,089 (49)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">N/A</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">N/A</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">36,311</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Des Moines</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">31,734</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">19,397 (61)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">2,910</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">3,782</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">36,148</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt" class=""><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Normandy Pk</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">6,670</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">5,174 (78)</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">N/A</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">N/A</span></div></td><td style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">52,539</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">* For comparison, Seattle’s median individual income in 2019 was $49,293, and registered voters represented 67% of the population.</span></div></span><br class=""></div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 27, 2021, at 8:03 PM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">Hey folks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So… change of plans, I’m afraid:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s a building in Kent where tenants were given <a href="https://mail.transitriders.org/index.php/s/qtaLbnR6BcjKQLT" target="_blank" class="">a notice</a> early this month that evictions will start in August & if they can’t pay they’ll also be charged late fees of $150 plus $5/day. That last part is totally illegal (Gov. Inslee’s bridge proclamation prohibits late fees through the end of this year) and the other part omits that the landlord still has to offer a payment plan and mediation for rent not paid in Aug & Sept. Anyway, we’ve been trying to find a time to go door-knocking there when someone who speaks Spanish can accompany us, and it turns out Friday is the only date that works. I’m going to help with that & so we'll have to postpone our research conversation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which also means: If anyone’s game for helping with door-knocking, you’re more than welcome to join us. Matthew and I will be driving down from Seattle so we can give rides to at least a couple people. We’re aiming to get there at 6pm.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">I’ll set up a poll soon for research meeting times next week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie</div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 21, 2021, at 4:13 PM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">Fine with me! Here’s a new invitation for Friday:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class=""><b class="">TRU Research Meet-up</b></font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">Scheduled: Jul 30, 2021 at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, PDT</font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">Location: Victrola Coffee Roasters</font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA <span class=""> </span>98112, United States</font></div></div></div></div><span id="gmail-m_7577396403358167350cid:2E82CFE9-3EA4-47C9-9EF7-3107FE4B422B" class=""><iCal-20210721-161317.ics></span><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""></div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 21, 2021, at 4:10 PM, Harry Maher <<a href="mailto:harryb.maher@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">harryb.maher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Ah shoot, I just got finished chatting with Jason and let him know I'd do some HON calls on Wednesday night at that time. Any chance we can do Friday instead? Sorry, team!</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 2:50 PM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Ok! Looking at the poll, I’m going to go ahead and call this for <b class="">next Wednesday 7/28 at 5:30pm</b>, unless Jim speaks up and says he prefers Friday. Here’s a calendar invitation. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class=""><b class="">TRU Research Meet-up</b></font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">Scheduled: Jul 28, 2021 at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, PDT</font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">Location: Victrola Coffee Roasters</font></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" class="">411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA <span class=""> </span>98112, United States</font></div></div></div></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 20, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">Ok, in this case let’s try for next week, and maybe that means more people can join. Here’s a scheduling poll for next Tues-Fri: <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><a href="https://www.when2meet.com/?12353093-hbviZ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.when2meet.com/?12353093-hbviZ</a></span></div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 20, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Stephen DeSanto <<a href="mailto:rachidian@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">rachidian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Thursday evenings aren't super great for me but I can make it if there's not an alternative. Friday or early next week are better for me. :)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:21 AM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="">Ok, how about this Thursday, 5:30pm at Victrola on 15th? Stephen and Douglas, does that work for both of you? Anyone else?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me know if we need to adjust the time, and I’m happy to consider different locations too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie</div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2021, at 7:40 PM, sextondouglas <<a href="mailto:sextondouglas@comcast.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">sextondouglas@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Yes and also free Thurs/Fri evening</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%" align="left" class=""><div class="">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="">From: Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> </div><div class="">Date: 7/18/21 5:53 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div class="">To: Stephen DeSanto <<a href="mailto:rachidian@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">rachidian@gmail.com</a>> </div><div class="">Cc: <a href="mailto:research@transitriders.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">research@transitriders.org</a> </div><div class="">Subject: Re: [TRU Research] Researching Kent / South King County? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>Great! Anyone else?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d be up for meeting late this week (Thursday/Friday?) or sometime the following week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie<br class="">
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2021, at 2:46 PM, Stephen DeSanto <<a href="mailto:rachidian@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">rachidian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Katie. It's good to hear from you. I have time to help research.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen<br class=""></div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:48 PM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Hi Research & Data team!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s been a while. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the summer. At last night’s membership meeting we passed the resolution below, to explore organizing in South King County. As a few of you already know, there are reasons to be especially interested in the city of Kent, which has strong connections with Amazon (warehouses & Blue Origin) and a pretty crappy city council & mayor (though that could change somewhat in this election).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we are to plan a successful campaign in Kent or South King County, we'll need to do quite a bit of RESEARCH. Anyone game for helping out with this over the next few months? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t have a list of specific questions, but a lot of vague ideas. Might be good to meet up (in person even?) and brainstorm. Let me know if you’re interested!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="gmail-m_7577396403358167350m_1454342512033273854gmail-m_3267623685696324956gmail-m_-8540201242547660609docs-internal-guid-89c706ec-7fff-229c-fbec-f0afbfeb96de" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Resolution #152 on organizing in South King County</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Proposed by the General Council</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS with the Stay Housed Stay Healthy campaign, TRU has for the first time attempted to move legislation in cities outside Seattle, with some success; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS through this campaign TRU has begun to build connections with organizations, community leaders and elected officials throughout King County; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS many of the issues of the greatest importance to TRU members— including public transit and transportation, housing and homelessness— are truly regional; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS there is in general much less grassroots organizing and power-building happening outside Seattle than within; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS as Seattle as gentrified, many working and poor people and people of color have been pushed out to the rest of King County, especially to South King County; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS the city councils in many King County cities are dominated by big business, landlord and wealthier homeowner interests; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS it has always been the vision of TRU to expand beyond Seattle to become a truly King County-wide (at least!) organization; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS it has also always been the vision of TRU to grow from being a relatively small group of dedicated activists to become a large, mass-based organization able to support more than just a couple paid staff, so as to be able to more effectively engage large numbers of members and coordinate large numbers of volunteers to win major victories; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS achieving this will not happen without concerted effort, strategic planning and resources,</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">THEREFORE BE IT</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">RESOLVED to authorize TRU’s General Secretary and General Council to begin investigating potential for a 2022 organizing campaign focused in South King County and to develop one or more preliminary campaign sketches to bring to the next Membership Meeting for further discussion.</span></div><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" dir="auto" class=""><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">Katie Wilson</span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class="">General Secretary</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class="">Transit Riders Union</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class=""><a href="https://transitriders.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://transitriders.org</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><span class=""><font color="#666666" class="">206-781-7204</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">The Transit Riders Union is a democratic organization of working and poor </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">people, including students, seniors, and people with disabilities, taking control over our own lives, and building up the power we </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">need to change society for the good of humanity and of the planet. We will </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">fight to preserve, expand, and improve the public transportation system in </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">Seattle and beyond, so that every human being has access to safe, </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">affordable, and reliable public transit.</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class="">I also write </span><a style="font-style:normal" href="https://crosscut.com/author/katie-wilson" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">opinions</a><span style="font-style:normal" class=""> for Crosscut. </span></font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class="">Sign up for my newsletter </span><a style="font-style:normal" href="http://eepurl.com/g_D3nf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">here</a>.</font></i></div></div></div></div></div>
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