Logan Evans (Kent City Council Position 6, Washington, candidate 2025)
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Logan Evans ran for election to the Kent City Council Position 6 in Washington. He was on the ballot in the primary on August 5, 2025.[source]
Evans completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Logan Evans provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2025:
- Birth date: October 13, 1991
- Birth place: Renton, Washington
- High school: Auburn Mountainview High School
- Bachelor's: Western Washington University, 2014
- M.D.: Western Governors University, 2020
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Tao
- Profession: Teacher
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: The Sun Rises Over Kent
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Elections
General election
General election for Kent City Council Position 6
Sharn Shoker and Andy Song are running in the general election for Kent City Council Position 6 on November 4, 2025.
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Sharn Shoker (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Andy Song (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Kent City Council Position 6
The following candidates ran in the primary for Kent City Council Position 6 on August 5, 2025.
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| Logan Evans (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Jamie Lee (Nonpartisan) | ||
| RoseLynne P. McCarter (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Tod Oyefeso (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Sharn Shoker (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Andy Song (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Logan Evans completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Evans' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I was born in Renton, raised in Kent since, and I work just down the road in Auburn. This is my home: every part of my life has been shaped right here in our region. I’m proud to call myself a Cascadian and a lifelong member of this community.
I enjoy teaching, and part of that is listening—really listening—to my students share stories about the dangers, fears, and struggles they face. And they’re not alone. From the loudest apartment blocks to the quietest suburbs, from family and friends to total strangers, I hear the same thing: “Something isn’t right. It didn’t used to be like this.”
Even when I describe what’s happening here to people overseas, they think I’m joking because it’s that hard to believe.
I’ve come to realize it’s not enough to build a safe life behind my own door while families around me are struggling. Our working people are under pressure, crime and chaos are punishing the honest, and children are afraid to walk home alone. We can’t shut it out. The Outside is the Inside.
That’s why I’m standing up.
I’m not a politician. I’m a teacher, a neighbor, and someone who cares deeply about our city. I’ve spent years learning how to listen, bring order, and bring people together. If you’ll let me, I want to bring the same grit, the same strength of will, and the same sense of duty I’ve carried in the classroom, and put it to work for our city.
The Sun Rises Over Kent!- Infrastructure: A City Worth Believing In
I’ve traveled far, but Kent is home: full of beauty, family, and potential. Still, not everyone can escape to the mountains. Our city lacks safe, vibrant places to gather, connect, and thrive. Teens seek danger for excitement. Adults drive elsewhere for joy. Even cities half our size offer more walkability, culture, and pride.
We deserve better.
As a teacher and neighbor, I’ve seen what’s missing and what’s possible. I’ll fight for housing that honors families, streets that connect us, and public spaces that inspire. From music venues to a Japanese Garden, from rebuilt roads to walkable neighborhoods, and affordable and beautiful condominums, we’ll create a Kent worth believing in! - SAFETY: Because Families Deserve Peace Kent wasn’t always this dangerous. I still remember when a friend was mugged walking near 124th. That day changed how I saw our city, and the last 15-years it’s only gotten worse. In 2024, Kent saw over 1,200 stolen vehicles, 138 shootings (38 involving kids), and 562 drug-related crimes. Families feel abandoned and police are made impotent by dangerous laws. I’ll restore safety where it matters most—our homes, schools, and streets: • More police near transit, schools and public areas like parks • Stronger penalties for repeat and drug offenses • Local laws for public intoxication and recurring nuisances • Support for neighborhood watch and community dignity Safety is the soil where hope can grow.
- HOMELESSNESS: Dignity and Order Can Coexist I’ve seen homelessness up close, through my students, friends, and even my own family. And I’ve spoken with those living on the street who want change. Over 500 people in Kent are without shelter, caught in cycles of trauma, danger, and neglect and disgusting enablement. This isn’t mercy. It’s abandonment. I’ll fight for: • A supervised, service-rich, carefully zoned shelter • An Anti-Camping Ordinance paired with real alternatives • Root-cause solutions: mental health, recovery, housing • Accountability without cruelty: there will be order, safety and cleanliness. • Challenging the Homeless-Industrial Complex We need structure and compassion. That’s how we bring dignity back—to everyone.
Well, really, I'll never be content. There's always so much to fix and improve to catch us up. I want to renovate Lake Meridian to make it cleaner and more beautiful, and introduce vendors and a membership based shuttle service, for example.
Really, though, these are my three concerns: Safety, Homeless and Infrastructure. I want Kent to be like the cities I've seen in Russia and in other parts of Washington, too! I want beauty and fun and peace and culture. I want kids to feel like they can run freely at night and families to have somewhere well lit and charming they can stroll through downtown at any time of day.
In a sense, the City Council is the buffer between the City and the County, State and Federal Government. How it uses this power, and how it cleverly increases prosperity and happiness and utilizes these systems of funding and lawmaking can determine whether Kent will be somewhere to raise a family or not.
I also admire Allan Octavian Hume, who worked diligently as an administrator in the British Raj to bring justice, fairness and prosperity, and even proposed innovative agricultural and economic policies to address hunger and an exploitative economy dedicated to the supporting only foreign and local elites. His efforts helped save the region he oversaw from famine. He also loved birds (he was an ornithologist) and worked to protect nature. He was ultimately removed from Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce and demoted for being too honest and just, and challenging a corrupt system.
In short, though, you could say my political philosophy is that the Community is Everything. That Beauty is Good. That Justice is the Highest Virtue.
I would add that every civilization, every region, has unique characteristics and similarities that must be accounted for, but that good policy and coherent visions will always make things work.
All people must be allowed the safety and prosperity to advance, and antisocial behavior must be discouraged, both for the safety of the good members of the community, and for the spiritual growth of the troubled members who would harm their neighbors.
His every action must be dedicated towards intuiting these, and gradually, his own personality must change until it is one solely dedicated to the success and happiness of his area of influence and control.
The elected official must strive to speak to every level of society and hear their concerns, and understand also that many people will not share their concerns or have the time or patience to voice them clearly, and rely instead upon their representative to have common sense and figure out what they want...
...and what they want is simple! They want peace, they want to be able to live their lives and run a business or work at a good job. They want places to have fun and try new or old hobbies with their friends. They want criminals and people who break the rules to be punished, and good behavior to be rewarded. They want their children to be in an environment that encourages good behavior. They want to belong. They want to be able to afford a home (not necessarily a suburban yard, but a home!), and they want to live amongst beauty. They want to be able to walk to nice things, drive without traffic, and live without fear.
The elected official must remember that his core principles are always populist. Always for the people. He exists because they exist. They are his highest good, and he and they are one and the same. Their success is his success. Their prosperity is his prosperity. Their joy is his joy. Their suffering is his suffering, and he must feel all of these things as if they happened to him, and he must truly feel them.
Above all, he must be willing to sacrifice himself for their needs, to embrace danger, to challenge any authority, any law, which threatens the happiness and peace of livelihoods of those he represents.
Most of all, though, I am just and I am dedicated to a shared vision of prosperity and hope. I exist to facilitate, and to always listen and hear your needs, and to fight with all my soul against whatever rules or forces might harm our City and its upstanding residents.
In detail, this means he must ensure that any taxes it is within his ability to control are done justly and spent only with the betterment of the city and people as a whole in mind. The City Council Member must have coherent, long-term visions based on experts, the desires of the people, and his own grounded experiences of the world and local life, and he cannot rely only upon one of these, nor ignore any one entirely.
The City Council Member must be able to coordinate with other cities to share best practices and to collaborate with these cities in regards to County and State legislation. In the most extreme cases, the City Council Member must be ready to take great risks and work together (at best) with these cities, and alone, if he must, to scheme and battle antisocial, dangerous laws at the County or State level which might threaten the city and its well-being.
The City Councilmember *never* has an excuse. He must *never* bow his head meekly to any law or order which would allow for chaos and danger and poverty and misery to bring ruin to his people. He must, at all times, strive to ensure they are protected from these codes, warned of them, and mobilized into an effective community that can control its own fate.
In short, the city must be developed, it must be developed well, and always held to a higher standard of effectiveness, driveability, walkability, affordability, and beauty, and it must be kept safe. At anytime, at any place.
I want youth attending bumping music venues, middle-aged mothers and their friends doing paint-and-sips at the local city-run art studio, where a student of mine works on her ceramics. I want a grandparent sitting on a rooftop park in their condo as they watch their toddle grandchild crawling with others in a shared space. The Showware center finishes a Thunderbirds game, and fans poor out and walk to the local beer garden in the same boulevard for a long-night of festivities and fun. Bicycle police ride by to make sure everyone knows there is peace, and one boy makes light-hearted fun of a friend who has been banned for 3-months for poor behavior at the Rec-Center. Lastly, quietly, at the new and renovated Japanese Garden, a young boy rests on the grass with a book while a couple scouts the temple for the wedding photos they will be taking there soon.
Nearby to all of this, in a secluded green space surrounded by trees, a community of Tiny Homes has been made to help house the unhoused, where police presence ensures peace, and properly vetted, dedicated charity services actually work to break the cycle of drug-addiction and dependence.
For now, I'm just going to say reading the Siege of Terra books by Black Library. If asked to choose a single book, I always loved the Eisenhorn Omnibus by Dan Abnett. Dorohedoro is a wonderful Manga, and ages ago I wore out a fantasy novel "The Riders of the Dead."
They are not Gods, but they are able to communicate with and guide other civic bodies towards a shared, positive goal.
There is enough corruption and weakness that excited, new, well-rounded blood is far more vital than any claimed "experience", especially when that experience has only overseen the current crisis. Simply put, the vibes for the last several years across the world have been for the introduction of new ideas and the end of dangerous, ugly and weak-willed stagnation that merely seeks to exploit and rent-seek.
Most of all, they must believe in the righteousness of their cause and their loyalty, always, to the people, the city and the land itself.
"It's funny (in a grim way) that America has become, in many ways, a worse version of the Soviet Union, and all the jokes can be applied here:
'I want to sign up for the waiting list for a car. How long is it?'
'Precisely ten years from today.'
'Morning or evening?'
'Why, what difference does it make?'
'The plumber's due in the morning.'
Power requires Absolute Responsibility.
I believe every decision and policy by government should have an easily available and trackable list on who signed off, and that these officials should be punished to an extraordinary degree for violation of the public trust.
Most modern issues are thanks to the bureaucratic and committee based nature of our government structure, and much of this would go away if we develop legal systems and a culture which allows for the tracking and genuine assigning of responsibility to government officials, elected and unelected.
I would hear any advice and comparable legal tradition that would enable this, and will be working on to pass any codes to do so.
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2025 Elections
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