Mercedes Elizalde
Mercedes Elizalde was a 2015 candidate for the Position 5 seat on the Seattle City Council in Washington. The primary election took place on August 4, 2015.
Biography
Elizalde's professional experience includes working at the Low Income Housing Institute.[1]
Campaign themes
2015
Elizalde's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[2]
Equitable Access to Social Services
- Excerpt: "There were 2,813 people counted sleeping outside after the shelters were full. A “Right to Shelter Ordinance” would guide the prioritization of city resources to ensure that no adult or child sleeps outside. Our city has too high a tolerance for homelessness, as long as we accept this as our reality we will continue to see a perpetuation and growth in homelessness."
Affordable Housing and Rent Stabilization
- Excerpt: "In order to really end homelessness and increase the preservation of existing affordable housing. We need to adjust the MFTE program to target high needs residents. We can accomplish this by targeting individuals and families making 50% or lower on the area median income (AMI). These are the people in our city most in need of rent stability in order to improve their living conditions or retire without risking homelessness."
Public Safety
- Excerpt: "Increase spending on preventative and supportive service. The mayor wants to bring in more officer for the city. I believe that bring in those new officers will only be effective in improving public safety if they are doing the kind of policing that increases community health. Revitalize the Community Police model and expanding the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program are ways to increase health and safety in the Aurora neighborhoods as well as throughout district 5 and the whole city."
Elections
2015
The city of Seattle, Washington, held elections for city council on November 3, 2015. A primary took place on August 4, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was May 15, 2015. All nine council seats were up for election.[3][4] In the Position 5 race, Sandy Brown and Debora Juarez advanced past Debadutta Dash, Mercedes Elizalde, Kris Lethin, Hugh Russell, David Toledo and Halei Watkins in the primary election on August 4, 2015. Juarez defeated Brown in the general election.[5]
| Seattle City Council Position 5, General election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Debora Juarez |
64.3% | 15,058 |
| Sandy Brown | 35.1% | 8,224 |
| Write-in votes | 0.54% | 126 |
| Total Votes | 23,408 | |
| Source: King County, Washington, "City of Seattle Council District No. 5", accessed November 3, 2015. | ||
| Seattle City Council Position 5 Primary Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Debora Juarez |
39.3% | 6,635 | |
| Sandy Brown |
19.9% | 3,360 | |
| Halei Watkins | 14.4% | 2,431 | |
| Kris Lethin | 7.7% | 1,307 | |
| Mercedes Elizalde | 5.8% | 985 | |
| Debadutta Dash | 5.7% | 968 | |
| David Toledo | 5.7% | 959 | |
| Hugh Russell | 1.4% | 231 | |
| Write-in | 0.2% | 27 | |
| Total Votes | 14,718 | ||
| Source: King County Elections, "Official primary election results," accessed August 12, 2015 | |||
Endorsements
2015
In 2015, Elizalde's endorsements included the following:[6]
- The Seattle Star
- King County Young Democrats
- National Women's Political Caucus of Washington
- Doug's Voter Guide
- Former Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson (36 LD)
- LPAC
- Transit Rider's Union
- Humane Voters of Washington
- NARAL Pro-Choice Washington
Recent news
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See also
- Seattle, Washington
- Seattle, Washington municipal elections, 2015
- United States municipal elections, 2015
External links
- Official campaign website
- Mercedes Elizalde on Facebook
- Mercedes Elizalde on LinkedIn
- City of Seattle - 2015 Candidate List
Footnotes
- ↑ votemercedes.com, "Bio," accessed July 22, 2015
- ↑ votemercedes.com, "Priorities," accessed July 22, 2015
- ↑ City of Seattle, "Law, Rules and Information for Filers," accessed September 19, 2014
- ↑ City of Seattle, "Seattle City Council Districts," accessed December 31, 2014
- ↑ King County Elections, "Official primary election results," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ votemercedes.com, "Endorsements," accessed July 22, 2015
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