One of my campaign goals was to have all committee meetings recorded & posted for transparency. I was unofficially told we can’t do that due to risk of “serial meetings” w/ a quorum of council members seeing the same information before it’s presented at COW or Council 🧵 1/3

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I remember being so nervous when I saw the NO PAC raise nearly six figures in a matter of days. The fact that #23-02 still won by 15 points shows the strength of a true community-led coalition. Raise The Wage Renton 📈

minimum wage workers raising Families did not receive the same outreach effort or have an equal say in how this incremental policy was decided. Low wage Burien workers will make less than nearly all cities around us. Even our youth workers at fast food joints will not earn more.

The Washington Bus is excited to partner with the youth-led Raise the Wage Burien campaign led by our friends at the Transit Riders Union to ensure working families can afford to live where they work! Join us as we support them in ensuring this legislation gets passed!