Jonathan Cassis
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Jonathan Cassis ran for election to the Tacoma Civil Service Board Position 3 in Washington. He was on the ballot in the primary on August 1, 2023.[source]
Cassis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
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Jonathan Cassis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cassis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a young, self taught, gay/bisexual cis man. I started seriously hunting for objective truth about our world and who has the best solutions for our problems. I hesitantly yet quickly became a progressive, understanding the current structure is in need of major changes both electorally and especially economically.
- Makes sure our city workers are compensated properly
- Make sure our city workers have the CSB as a VERY accessible resource by bringing transparency to the board itself.
- Learn from current board members such as Erick Henson and Dan Sexton to make more educated decisions regarding workers compensation/working conditions
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Finding credible sources is very important and done by finding articles that aren’t backed by big corporations or interest groups, but rather for public use. Like libraries. Ground news is a helpful tool to see political articles and their biases as well. My take on crime is poverty is it’s mother. And if we can end poverty the numbers will go down dramatically.
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Other then what I have mentioned, I would like to see more green initiatives, the preservation of native plants, and the respect of all peoples and the indigenous land we are on.
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Extremely important. My current plan is to place a regulation on the amount of properties one can own to one, Make a program where one can opt in if they desire to make living costs go down dramatically with a monthly tax that is used to pay utilities and nothing more. I’m working on the details with currently elected officials as I’m writing this.
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People are entitled to the evidence politicians use to form policy. I think our politicians should wear a body cam when with lobbyists. Electoral reform is also important in this regards as it (term limits) forces the elected candidates to focus on the job at hand rather then corporate interests.
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We need to require our police to be educated, and not be this military right wing pipeline that it has been for so long. Requiring education while creating more branches to adress different needs (dementia violence, school securiry ect.) and adequate funding so they aren’t overworked is the best way I see going forward.
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Most people fear the police and unfortunately rightfully so. We need to stop incentivizing crime by terrible wages and giving cops medals for finding crime. Again we need police reform so they become educated when it comes to dealing with nuanced issues.
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Hunter Henderson for council at large position 8 is more informed on this and I would recommend putting people like him in charge of it. Yes we need changes.
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Right now we have our infrastructure built around cars. The number one cause of death in the United States for citizens 19 and younger was automobile accidents until guns took over a few years back which is wild. I think we can start implementing a really good rail system from Olympia up through Seattle, and start condensing our cities to make room for more people and allow them to travel by foot and bicycle. This would be a huge project over many years but my dream is no more cars by 2080.
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A lot. No more incentives to lock people up for one, abolish private prisons, fund programs to deal with different issues, don’t overwork them, require education . Etc
Non government workers conditions and compensation.
I won’t have jurisdiction over them in this position but I will be in a place to get hands on experience educating myself on that front. I’m also working with currently elected state senators and representatives regarding universal housing and how to achieve it.
The CSB works directly with the city workers who otherwise would have to go through our court systems. So it’s very important in that regards
Bernie Sanders, for being civil and changing the conversation more constructively on the left. I also look up to Seth McFarlane when it comes to my creative passions. And of course my mother who is no longer with us I hate to say but has made me as kind and thoughtful as I am today.
I don’t really have a philosophy so no. I find it (philosophy) interesting but it’s only as helpful as you allow it.
Be yourself, be human. Learn from your mistakes, be humble, present straightforward arguments digestible for your peers and constituents. Be firm with the information, don’t talk over or past people. Demand respect, but make sure your doing the same for others.
I’m everything I mentioned when describing good characteristics of an elected representative.
Writing personnel laws for the city’s workforce
Revising those laws etc
All of which are in relation to the working conditions and penalties for negligence or other violations of the city’s workforce. Barack Obama getting elected, I was 7 years old.
Taco Bell on 19th street, from January 2018 to June 2019
Just a Pineapple by BOI WHAT
The CSB deformed who can apply for these city jobs too, and that is a huge decision that not many know about
No, otherwise I would of not run. Your going to need a start at some point and this is perfect for a candidate like me. Young, eager to learn, and does well with hands on experience in a position that doesn’t pay a penny.
I’m self taught, I have a video series called “information and counting” on YouTube where I collect all the data i can get on an issue I’m interested in and then present that on video.
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