Casey Sixkiller
Casey Sixkiller is an officeholder of the Washington Director of Ecology.
Sixkiller ran for election for Mayor of Seattle in Washington. He lost in the primary on August 3, 2021.
Elections
2021
See also: Mayoral election in Seattle, Washington (2021)
General election
General election for Mayor of Seattle
Bruce Harrell defeated M. Lorena Gonzalez in the general election for Mayor of Seattle on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bruce Harrell (Nonpartisan) | 58.6 | 155,294 |
 | M. Lorena Gonzalez (Nonpartisan) | 41.2 | 109,132 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 777 | ||
| Total votes: 265,203 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Seattle
The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Seattle on August 3, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bruce Harrell (Nonpartisan) | 34.0 | 69,612 |
| ✔ | | M. Lorena Gonzalez (Nonpartisan) | 32.1 | 65,750 |
 | Colleen Echohawk (Nonpartisan) | 10.3 | 21,042 | |
 | Jessyn Farrell (Nonpartisan) | 7.3 | 14,931 | |
| Arthur Langlie (Nonpartisan) | 5.6 | 11,372 | ||
 | Casey Sixkiller (Nonpartisan) | 3.4 | 6,918 | |
 | Andrew Grant Houston (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 5,485 | |
| James Donaldson (Nonpartisan) | 1.6 | 3,219 | ||
| Lance Randall (Nonpartisan) | 1.4 | 2,804 | ||
 | Clinton Bliss (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 1,618 | |
| Omari Tahir-Garrett (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 391 | ||
| Bobby Tucker (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 377 | ||
 | Henry Dennison (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 347 | |
 | Stan Lippmann (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 323 | |
 | Don Rivers (Nonpartisan) | 0.1 | 189 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 386 | ||
| Total votes: 204,764 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Sixkiller's campaign website stated the following themes.
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READY TO LEAD Being mayor of Seattle is the hardest job in the city. I know — I’ve been serving as deputy mayor during one of the most challenging periods in our city’s history. This is a moment that requires a mayor ready to lead from Day One. I am the only candidate who has managed large, complex organizations and who has a record of turning words into action and driving for results. AN EQUITABLE COVID-19 RECOVERY Seattle was the first major U.S. city to face the unknowns of COVID-19. Our response required decisive, sometimes unpopular decisions, and a rapid scaling of resources — from standing up free testing facilities to getting food to families in need and supporting our most vulnerable neighbors — all of which saved lives. A year later and we are leading the nation in vaccination rates and are on a path to re-opening our economy. But there is more work to be done. Recovery is our opportunity to build a stronger, more equitable Seattle with vibrant and resilient neighborhoods, thriving small businesses, and an economy that works for all of us. It requires a call to action that brings us together, clarity of shared purpose, and both fresh ideas and bold actions to get the job done. LET’S R.I.S.E. TOGETHER The Seattle of my childhood has been transformed by unprecedented population growth and economic expansion that has pushed the median household income to more than $102,000, an increase of $33,000 since 2010. But not everyone is benefiting from this success and many are being left behind. Today nearly a quarter of Seattle’s families earn less than $50,000 a year — even less for Black and Native families — and for them this past year has been even more challenging, as they have struggled to make ends meet. My Reliable Income Supporting Equity (R.I.S.E.) program will build on lessons learned from supporting families throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to pilot the largest guaranteed basic income program in the nation. If we truly want a more equitable Seattle, then we need to invest in working families so they are part of it. Article link. The data, from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey‘s 1-year estimates, showed the median household income in 2019 went up to $102,486, up from $93,481 in 2018. It reflected a continued trend in Seattle over the last several years. THRIVING SMALL BUSINESSES AND WORKERS The pandemic laid bare the inequities that exist throughout Seattle and caused deep, economic harm to our small businesses and the thousands of frontline and gig workers that hold our city together. Every empty storefront or shuttered restaurant is a loss to our communities. We need to do more to help small businesses so they can move beyond surviving to thriving. This includes small business stabilization grants, B&O tax relief, and other supports to help get businesses reopened and hiring. Longer-term we need to do more to keep small businesses rooted in their neighborhoods, not priced out by new development. And we need to build on our groundbreaking protections for gig workers so they have access to benefits and the peace of mind that Seattle is a place they can continue to call home. RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOODS The path to economic recovery and a stronger, more inclusive Seattle begins and ends with our neighborhoods. Clean streets, sidewalks, thriving small businesses, parks and open space for community gatherings, grocery stores, access to reliable and affordable transportation, and other amenities are the hallmarks of a resilient neighborhood. Now more than ever before we need to work to ensure every neighborhood succeeds by working with communities to meet their needs while protecting what makes each neighborhood uniquely Seattle. AN EQUITABLE FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN As a father, I want every child to have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. It starts with supporting families by making childcare more affordable and accessible, and investing in early childhood development. I will expand the number of city-funded childcare centers and limit co-pays to seven percent of household income so working families can continue to invest in their family’s future, not the rising cost of childcare. And we need to do more to ensure every child is ready to learn. Today one-third of children across Seattle enter kindergarten already behind. By expanding the City’s pre-K program we can ensure every three and four-year-old benefits from high-quality, classroom-based instruction, while keeping the opportunity gap from ever opening in the first place. MOVING OUR UNSHELTERED NEIGHBORS INTO HOMES If there is one thing that we can all agree on it’s that our homeless services system is not working. It’s not working for our unsheltered neighbors and the conditions in our parks and on our streets are inhumane. Despite spending a record amount of funding last year – $100 million more than just two years earlier – homelessness in Seattle has gotten worse. Every neighborhood and business district across the city is feeling a sense of helplessness. We cannot fix twenty years of broken systems and failed efforts at every level of government overnight. But we can — and must — do better. My plan includes five key components: first, we need to continue efforts already underway to expand tiny home villages and the temporary use of hotels so more people can come inside and get connected to the services they need; second, we need to increase the performance and accountability of the shelter system and its operators to achieve the outcomes we want; third, we need to build 3,000 permanent places for individuals to call home; fourth, given that 40 percent of all people served by the City last year were last housed somewhere other than Seattle, we need to double down on a regional response so other cities and communities are part of the solution; and finally, each of these investments must be paired with a renewed commitment to keeping our parks and business districts encampment free. Solving homelessness is complex but it is not impossible for us to make progress if we rise above rhetoric. We can get more people inside and end their experience with homelessness while also returning our public spaces to their intended uses. COMMUNITY SAFETY THAT WORKS FOR ALL OF US Every Seattle resident should be able to walk down the street and feel safe. But that is not the case today. Despite years of efforts at reforming policing, if you are a person of color in Seattle your experience with law enforcement is very different than most and more likely to involve an armed police response. We must make changes to shift the approach and culture of policing in Seattle to be community-based and community-informed, and more accountable. Moving more 911 calls away from an armed police officer is a critical first step. It will require expanding crisis response programs like Health One, doubling the City’s unarmed civilian Community Service Officers program, and scaling up non-profit community safety programs so they can respond in real time. It also requires new and expanded harm reduction programs focused on high-barrier individuals committing crimes that are having a disproportionate impact on small businesses but for whom jail is neither the answer nor the solution. We need to move away from minimum staffing levels for police officers and instead rightsize the force so we can reduce 911 crisis response times and transition to a micro-policing model that gets officers out of their cars and back to building relationships in the communities they serve. Culture change requires reforming hiring practices to increase racial and cultural diversity, ongoing training requirements with an emphasis on non-lethal tools and crisis response, and setting a community-informed standard of excellence, transparency, and accountability for officer conduct and removal. LEADING THE NATION IN COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE Addressing climate change is a moral, economic and environmental imperative for the future of Seattle. In my career, I have worked to increase investments in renewable energy, expand mass transit, advance environmental justice, and preserve and protect our public lands. Combating climate change requires taking bold actions and a steadfast commitment to lowering carbon emissions year over year. Continuing to convert our fossil fuel infrastructure and networks to net neutral emissions is an essential component, as is the greening of our buildings and materials. I will work to reset our building standards, create incentives for the conversion from fossil fuels to clean energy sources, and the development of a new carbon neutral transportation network. We need to lean into the green economy and build pipelines, in partnership with labor, to bring the next generation of our workforce into good paying jobs that literally are fueling Seattle’s transition to carbon neutral buildings and infrastructure. GREATER RESOURCES AND INVESTMENTS IN OUR LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY Seattle’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community is a hallmark of our city. As mayor, I’ll make certain that Seattle is safe and welcoming for our LGBTQ+ residents, especially our trans and nonbinary folks and persons of color who still face far too much hostility, discrimination and violence in our country. I’ll invest in supporting small businesses to help preserve and create more LGBTQ+ spaces, since too many have been lost to economic displacement or COVID-19. I will do more to support the most vulnerable LGBTQ+ individuals in Seattle. I’ll work with Seattle Public Schools to make our schools a safe haven for transgender and other queer students. I’ll shift investments to make sure LGBTQ+ homeless youth have access to housing, health care and all other resources in the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. I will also champion a renewed focus on providing more resources and investments in the LGBTQ+ aging community, to ensure that LGBTQ+ elders are supported and not left to languish in social isolation.[1] |
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| —Casey Sixkiller’s campaign website (2021)[2] | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Candidate Mayor of Seattle |
Officeholder Washington Director of Ecology |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Casey Sixkiller's 2021 campaign website, "Priorities," accessed July 21, 2021
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