Mayoral candidates Harrell & González debate in season premiere of City Inside/Out
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- The race to become Seattle's next mayor is a tight one, with city council veterans Bruce Harrell and M. Lorena González vying to lead a city that's facing significant challenges. The candidates face off on the season premiere of City Inside/Out!
Guests:
Bruce Harrell, Mayoral Candidate
M. Lorena González, Mayoral Candidate
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Wow 670 views. Why was this debate on the Seattle Channel instead of a local broadcaster able to deliver a much larger audience?
VOTE HARRELL! We don't need another wishy washy tax tax tax money money individual as mayor (or council) at least HE wants to use money wisely and see outcomes that warrant our tax dollars! Makes total fiscal sense! Also VOTE Sara Nelson for SCC position 9 and Ann Davison for city attorney!
You know what DOES make fiscal sense? Making sure that people without jobs GET JOBS SO THAT SEATTLE CAN START FUNDING INSELF FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOCIAL SERVICES WE NEED.
VOTE LORENA GONZALES
So does she no longer want to cut 50%? If she does, she’s certainly afraid to say it. Pathetic.
No sweeps... let junkies destroy our parks and water ways.. She is insane if she thinks she can negotiate with a Junkies. These people are not going to leave unless they are required to leave!
It truly takes a monster to dehumanize their fellow brothers and sisters! Shame on you!
People need HELP! Nobody wants to live homeless of their own choosing! Ridiculous logic!
@@jorgesolis-munoz6601 you obviously are severely uneducated on homelessness. there are plenty of homeless that would RATHER be homeless then live in their offered housing/shelter. and do you know why? drugs. they need easy access and their sweet sweet fentanyl. they won’t move away unless required as the OP stated.
*Engaged citizenship intensifies*
Promote her because she's done such a good job on the City Council? No thanks.
The “subject matter experts” are unable to get more than 50% of people offered housing to take it. The parks are not for camping. Neither are schools. What is it going to take before González realizes kids are in danger every day thanks to her “compassion.”
Where did you get the 50% statistic and why are kids in danger because of compassion?
@@chrischampagne9469 What is “compassionate” about a society that teaches kids it’s a perfectly expected, normal, acceptable part of life to see in neighborhoods, and parks and schools a different class of people who even a five year old can recognize as very poor and needy and often crazy not well and necessary to avoid because they are dangerous. We walk to school past people who talk and shout at themselves, throw trash cans at bikers, and those m always asking or harassing for money. We cross traffic islands and a bridge overflowing onto the sidewalk with wooden pallets and trash from those living in ramshackle tents and the parks picnic tables made into shelters without plumbing or toilets. The way to school includes stepping through piles of trash under a bridge including routine human waste. Seeing people live in filthy conditions behind a grocery store on the traffic medians, under bridges, or alongside the windows of an elementary school gym doesn’t make kids think,
“WOW WHAT A COMPASSIONATE CITY I LIVE IN!”
It’s not compassionate to normalize taking a dump on the bike path because you are addicted to meth and living in a tarp tied to upside down shopping cart. It makes kids distrust adults and creates fear actually. Let me guess you’ve never tried to explain homelessness to a five year old. When asked, “How come nobody helps them?” It sounds like your answer is, “because we have too much compassion.”
You don’t think it’s an issue to have drug addicts living in tents along a school’s entrance or along the wall of the gym? Are you waiting for a kid to get abducted or raped, just like what happened to the grownups at the court house. People so dangerous the King County courthouse could not even stay open; yet letting them live on a school playground is compassionate and what’s so dangerous about that, right? Nevermind the school has already gone into lockdown thanks to “compassion.” True compassion would be forcing addicts into involuntary detox and treatment. Not celebrating the guy shooting up in a tent as a lesson in generosity and diversity or privilege. Where is your shame? Compassionate. Gross.
If Gonzales wins Seattle voters needs to go to ward 9 at harborview hospital.
They will go the Bellevue, Shoreline, Federal Way…
Mr. Harrell is proven in councilman and mayoral experience and political capital.
Bruce, you didn't get homelessness dealt with while on the City Council. Why should we promote you?
I don’t remember giant tent cities in parks like Greenlake and Woodland when Bruce was on the council. I don’t remember the courthouse needing to literally shut itself down because of attacks by its homeless neighbors when Bruce was on the council.
Unfortunately he’s the best option. Under González homelessness will inevitably get worse. We are past “build more housing” as the very first thing she says she would do. It shows she doesn’t understand that answer is no longer acceptable. More immediate steps need to be taken including reclaiming public school grounds, rocky highway overpasses, and the parks getting destroyed by garbage, fires, human waste, needles, and crime every day in every park across the city.
Yo Gonzalez is a straight up failure. She and the city council can't even keep human feces off the sidewalk how the hell can she run a city? I'm going with Bruce. It's time for some tough love.
It's funny (or predictable) how quickly people forget (or willfully ignore) what it was like when Bruce was on the council.
I recall the mayor of Seattle and KC executive calling a state of emergency in 2015 when an unusual amount of people experiencing homelessness were dying on the street. Or maybe the year before that when people were swept out of Ravenna park and then camped out on the Ave in front of the post office for months.
Bruce has no plan. He will continue sweeps and blame addiction for the cause of homelessness. Meanwhile, rental prices explode, homeowners watch their property values balloon, and Seattle becomes the corporate town he wants it to be.
The alternative is insane... she wants to negotiate with junkies... she is insane as the homeless destroying our city
When talking about people experiencing homelessness Bruce says "we have to be very aggressive in how we treat people". Now, I know what he means, but this type of language is what will get him the conservative vote. Also, I don't for one second believe him when he says he won't enact sweeps. He for sure will do it.
He's Durkan 2.0
Let’s hope so. Sweep schools and parks. I think in other recent discussions Bruce distinguished between the location of camps. Relocate to parking lots the city can lease, spread evenly across the city, and adequately clean and keep those camping areas safe, provide basic facilities like water and portable toilets etc.
Matthew as a recovering alcoholic l have to tell you, compassion though well intended is killing those people. You CAN NOT indulge an addict/alcoholic. Indulgence is enabling and it allows the disease to kill it's victim. Addicts/alcoholic need rules, expectations, treatment and love. I know, it's hard to be tough on people(Seattlites have big love in their hearts) but when it comes to adfict/alcoholics,, you'll be saving their lives by not indulging their behavior. Once they recover and they can absolutely recover, they will thank you with tears in their eyes. Please believe me.
@@tubbytuber spread evenly across the city? Wonder what that looks like.... oh right. Sweep people out of wealthy white neighborhoods to poor black/brown neighborhoods. Right. Also, in this debate, wasn't it Gonzalez that mentioned she would keep the camps safe, clean and maintained? Seems to me that Bruce is still trying to figure out a strategy.. He'll flip-flop as he sees fit because he's a true politician.
He didn't run for reelection in 2019 because he knew he'd lose in District 2 and that his ideas were more fit for north Seattle. Which is why people north of the canal support him.
Gonzales has proven she can win city-wide and she doesn't have to win a race smearing those experiencing homelessness.
@@matthewsaunders4820 No I said spread them evenly precisely because I knew someone like you would inevitably come recite like a good little chat bot that sweeps are bad before immediately attacking what you would presume to be my race and economic status as if your lack of imagination is a strong argument for letting parks and school playgrounds be overrun by tents, human waste, drugs, needles, and people in serious need of help. You know, the people Gonzales is happy to ignore indefinitely until tens of thousands of free and low cost “new housing” miraculously comes online from mythical Amazon taxes. That’s not compassion and it’s not solving the problem. It’s just choosing the rights of a drug addict to live in a tent next to a school playground that’s had multiple lockdowns due to crazy delusional schizo neighbors, over the rights of kids and parents to walk to school without needing to step over deposits of human waste while scanning the ground for needles. It’s clear who’s side she on which is why she can’t even beat Bruce Harrell - Bruce Harrell! The guy who retired. She can’t beat him because she’s wrong on the homeless and the police. 0 for 2 on the only 2 issues that matter.
David Eisenbud, I’m always fascinated when something is blamed on an individual council member, who in the end only has the power of one council vote. Yes, we can notice who is working hard for something, trying to bring their colleagues along, or who actually has had specific authority over a certain area or project, but that is not what you said. Sometimes it’s hard to sort out which issues fall into what jurisdictions, but let’s try. (And this is less an argument with you, David, and not particularly a defense of Harrell, but more a general plea for accuracy by everyone in our discussions.). Thank you!
Oh please. I hold González accountable for the state of our police department. She is president of the Council and led the charge calling for 50% cuts, and making a series of bad decisions that led to the former chief resigning followed by literally hundreds of officers. And then she has the audacity to say the police aren’t doing their jobs, that they “need to go out and do the hard work, do community policing!?!?” They don’t have enough officers to do that as a result of her leadership. They can barely respond to 1 &2 priority calls. How many cops have left due to her disastrous call for 50% cuts; cuts she actually wanted in place for next year yet just months later will no longer even say whether what she still supports by when. Unbelievable.
Gonzalez is a wokester social justice warrior... She is not trying to solve problems she is trying to lay blame on everyone but the people that are doing bad things. She is living in fantasy land - negotiate with homeless junkies living in our parks???? Let them dump trash and we pay to pick it up??? In her opinion it is ok for our parks, streets and public places to be occupied by homeless AND we should clean up the toxic garbage that is strewn across our city. Public Safety is of zero concern to her. If she wins sell your house and run... Seattle will not be habitable for hard working people!
Lorena Gonzalez 4 Mayor of Seattle!
#taxtherich #defundthepolice