Logan Bowers
Logan Bowers ran for election to the Seattle City Council to represent District 3 in Washington. Bowers lost in the primary on August 6, 2019.
Bowers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Seattle, Washington (2019)
General election
General election for Seattle City Council District 3
Incumbent Kshama Sawant defeated Egan Orion in the general election for Seattle City Council District 3 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kshama Sawant (Nonpartisan)  | 51.8 | 22,263 |
 | Egan Orion (Nonpartisan) | 47.7 | 20,488 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 205 | ||
| Total votes: 42,956 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Seattle City Council District 3
The following candidates ran in the primary for Seattle City Council District 3 on August 6, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kshama Sawant (Nonpartisan) | 36.7 | 12,088 |
| ✔ | | Egan Orion (Nonpartisan) | 21.5 | 7,078 |
 | Pat Murakami (Nonpartisan) | 13.0 | 4,279 | |
 | Zachary DeWolf (Nonpartisan) | 12.6 | 4,147 | |
| Ami Nguyen (Nonpartisan) | 9.2 | 3,028 | ||
 | Logan Bowers (Nonpartisan) | 6.8 | 2,250 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 59 | ||
| Total votes: 32,929 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Logan Bowers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bowers' responses.
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Seattle needs equitable housing. I will fight to end Seattle’s housing shortage. Seattle created 100,000 new jobs downtown, but only added 45,000 housing units citywide. We can’t build enough homes because the city follows racist and segregationist zoning policies from 1958. We must end this injustice. I will legalize duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes throughout the city. This low cost housing was once part of every neighborhood. It adds appropriate density, not expensive high-rises and would require no public spending. 2. Seattle needs walkable neighborhoods. I will fight for 100% walkable neighborhoods. Every family deserves to safely walk or bike to necessities like groceries, schools, or affordable childcare. I will end the prohibition on these amenities, because walkable neighborhoods are healthy, safe, and vibrant neighborhoods. We must design our streets to serve people. I will fight for safe streets and transit priority. All road users – even drivers – benefit when more people walk, bike, scooter, or bus. Let’s get fossil fuel out of our lives. 3. Seattle needs a responsible homelessness response. We need 5,200 more units of supportive housing and social services that treat our unhoused neighbors with dignity and respect. Aggressive sweeps are inhumane and just don’t work. I will lead our homelessness response with empathy, not enforcement.
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
I am running to increase transparency and accountability in our government. How are decisions made and why? Is the city being a wise steward of the public purse and the public trust? These are important questions. The current city council member for District 3 has not been available or accountable to the people who live in the district. She is focused on responding to her party, not the people who live here. This is unacceptable. Government is effective when it is transparent and accountable. Specifically, our government should be transparent and accountable to residents, not out-of-state donors or political movements. Residents have a right to know what their councilmember is doing on their behalf, and to have a voice in the decisions. I am committed to being transparent about the decisions I make at City Hall. That means I will seek input from residents when I make decisions, I will explain how city policies impact people in Seattle. My door will always be open to hear concerns and to make sure the city is working for all the people who live here.
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
City council members must listen to and respond to the people they have been elected to represent.
What is something that has been a struggle in your life?
Like many people in Seattle I work hard and love my local community, but I have never been able to afford to own a home.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
| |||||||||
