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Nikkita Oliver
Nikkita Oliver ran for election to the Seattle City Council to represent Position 9 At-Large in Washington. Oliver lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Oliver completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Nikkita Oliver was a candidate for mayor of Seattle in Washington. Nikkita Oliver was defeated in the primary election on August 1, 2017. Click here to read Oliver's campaign themes for 2017.
Biography
Nikkita Oliver (they/them) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Oliver moved to Seattle, Washington, in 2004. They received a bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University and a master's of education and a J.D. from the University of Washington. As of the city council primary, they were the executive director of Creative Justice, which they described as "an arts-based healing-engaged space for youth." Oliver was a founding member of the Seattle Peoples Party and had worked with several groups, including Urban Impact, the Union Gospel Mission’s Youth Reach Out Center, and the Urban Youth Leadership Academy.[1][2]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in Seattle, Washington (2021)
General election
General election for Seattle City Council Position 9 At-Large
Sara Nelson defeated Nikkita Oliver in the general election for Seattle City Council Position 9 At-Large on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sara Nelson (Nonpartisan)  | 53.9 | 139,336 |
 | Nikkita Oliver (Nonpartisan) | 46.0 | 119,025 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 363 | ||
| Total votes: 258,724 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Seattle City Council Position 9 At-Large
The following candidates ran in the primary for Seattle City Council Position 9 At-Large on August 3, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nikkita Oliver (Nonpartisan) | 40.2 | 79,799 |
| ✔ | | Sara Nelson (Nonpartisan) | 39.5 | 78,388 |
 | Brianna Thomas (Nonpartisan) | 13.4 | 26,651 | |
 | Corey Eichner (Nonpartisan) | 3.5 | 7,030 | |
 | Lindsay McHaffie (Nonpartisan) | 1.5 | 3,048 | |
| Rebecca Williamson (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 1,646 | ||
 | Xtian Gunther (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 1,409 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 637 | ||
| Total votes: 198,608 | |||
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2017
The following candidates ran in the primary election for mayor of Seattle.[3]
| Mayor of Seattle, Primary Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jenny Durkan |
27.90% | 51,529 |
| Cary Moon |
17.62% | 32,536 |
| Nikkita Oliver | 16.99% | 31,366 |
| Jessyn Farrell | 12.54% | 23,160 |
| Bob Hasegawa | 8.39% | 15,500 |
| Mike McGinn | 6.50% | 12,001 |
| Gary Brose | 2.16% | 3,987 |
| Harley Lever | 1.81% | 3,340 |
| Larry Oberto | 1.67% | 3,089 |
| Greg Hamilton | 0.92% | 1,706 |
| Michael Harris | 0.76% | 1,401 |
| Casey Carlisle | 0.71% | 1,309 |
| James Norton Jr. | 0.54% | 988 |
| Thom Gunn | 0.25% | 455 |
| Mary Martin | 0.23% | 422 |
| Jason Roberts | 0.22% | 405 |
| Lewis Jones | 0.19% | 344 |
| Alex Tsimerman | 0.14% | 253 |
| Keith Whiteman | 0.09% | 174 |
| Tiniell Cato | 0.09% | 170 |
| Dave Kane | 0.06% | 114 |
| Write-in votes | 0.23% | 418 |
| Total Votes | 184,667 | |
| Source: King County, "2017 election results," accessed August 15, 2017 | ||
Endorsements
General election
The following table displays group endorsements issued in Seattle's 2017 general election. Click [show] on the box below to view endorsements.
| Candidate endorsements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endorser | Mayor | Position 8 | Position 9 | City attorney | |
| Alliance for Gun Responsibility Victory Fund[4] | Jenny Durkan | N/A | M. Lorena González (i) | Pete Holmes (i) | |
| Democracy for America[5] | Cary Moon | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Equal Rights Washington[6] | Jenny Durkan | Teresa Mosqueda | M. Lorena González (i) | Pete Holmes (i) | |
| King County Democrats[7][8] | Cary Moon | Teresa Mosqueda | M. Lorena González (i) | Pete Holmes (i) | |
| M.L. King County Labor Council[9] | Jenny Durkan | Teresa Mosqueda | M. Lorena González (i) | N/A | |
| Seattle Education Association[10] | Cary Moon | Teresa Mosqueda | M. Lorena González (i) | N/A | |
| Seattle Weekly[11] | Cary Moon | Jon Grant | M. Lorena González (i) | Pete Holmes (i) | |
| SEIU 6[12] | Cary Moon | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| SEIU 925[13] | Cary Moon | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| SEIU 1199NW[12] | Jenny Durkan | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Teamsters Joint Council No. 28[12] | Jenny Durkan | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| The Seattle Times[14] | Jenny Durkan | N/A | Pat Murakami | Scott Lindsay | |
| The Stranger[15] | Cary Moon | Jon Grant | M. Lorena González (i) | Pete Holmes (i) | |
| UFCW 21[16] | Cary Moon | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Unite Here Local 8[17] | Cary Moon | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Washington State Council of County and City Employees[12] | Jenny Durkan | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Primary election
The following table displays group endorsements issued in Seattle's 2017 primary election. Click [show] on the box below to view endorsements.
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nikkita Oliver completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Oliver's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Green equitable affordable & social housing development: housing is the greatest crisis presently facing our City and it impacts all facets of life. A lack of access to quality affordable housing impacts health, education and economic opportunity, and systems involvement. Providing social, affordable housing is also a public health and safety strategy. We need to reach our climate goals. Doing so will require us to build all new developments green, as well as strengthen our public transportation infrastructure so that more people can effectively use public transportation rather than single occupancy vehicles.
Public health & safety and how that is connected to meeting people’s basic needs: when people’s basic needs are met, we build safety. Meeting basic needs is a baseline for community safety. Our city deserves better options than violent policing and mass incarceration as our only choices for public safety. The majority of what we call crime happens because people do not have their basic needs met. In order for us to create the safer city we imagine, we need affordable and social housing, equitable transportation, affordable childcare, fully funded schools with school counselors, restorative justice coordinators, and health services, more culturally responsive and accessible youth programs, health and sex education that teaches healthy relat
Progressive taxation & revenue generation: when it comes to taxation and revenue generation, WA state is one of the most regressive. This means that the City also relies upon regressive taxes to generate revenue. Ultimately, the burden of taxation is inequitably distributed. We need to build $400 million of affordable housing a year within the City of Seattle for the next 10 years to effectively address the housing crisis as well as invest in our public infrastructure to keep up with development. Those paying the most in taxes are also those most impacted by the lack of affordable housing. We need to tax the wealthy and corporations who have benefited most from the economic boom in our region.
We have an opportunity to use the lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 crisis to build social and economic safety nets, massive investments in housing and transit infrastructure, pass progressive taxation legislation that is permanent, and fund social services that provide supportive care, medical treatment, mental health resources, and true crisis response strategies such as de-escalation. All of these are necessary to build up as buffers for the next crisis or recession that will come one day.
I firmly believe that Seattle’s municipal government needs to also properly fund and invest in the organizations that have been fighting on the forefront of the pandemic. They have continued to serve our residents and building up their capacity is critical in ensuring our recovery is equitable.
Community-based mutual aid networks have been an important way by which Seattle-King County purposefully participates in self-redistribution of resources. Rather than discouraging or taking over these efforts, the City of Seattle should find ways to support communities in making these mutual aid networks more resilient and sustainable.
We need to move away and divest from failed public safety methods that have proven to be not only ineffective, but harmful. Simultaneously we must invest in community wellbeing and systems of public health and public safety achieved through culturally competent crisis responses, community healing, restoration, reparations, and all of the material conditions needed for communities to thrive.
Too often, we have heard stories about how record requests from the press and from community organizations demanding accountability from city government have proven immensely difficult to access. Delaying the fulfillment of records requests for months at a time is an unacceptable tactic that elected officials cannot entertain if they purport to truly care about transparency and accountability. Moreover, intentionally preventing members of the public from accessing records is a major obstacle to fostering trust between city offices and the communities we serve.
1. Radical accessibility (short-term solutions): the City of Seattle should redistribute funds typically used for sweeps to instead support people who use the parks for housing, enabling parks to help sustainably and humanely address the needs of unsheltered people while expanding green spaces in the city and absorbing unneeded roadways. Stop the sweeps (a harmful practice, a human rights violation, and exacerbator of public health and safety issues) and instead promote radical accessibility in parks by providing access to public restrooms, handwashing stations, mobile units for washing clothes and showering, and mobile medical clinics; provide trash and sanitation support to support in keeping areas clean and accessible; build rapport with impacted communities; and parking lot programs.
2. Get and/or keep people housed (mid-term solutions): Invest in no-barrier, non-congregate shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. Shelters should support residents in becoming permanently housed. Additionally, expand supportive services and transitional supports, and expand renters' supports and protections to keep people at risk of homelessness in their homes. Lastly, we should invest in peer support programs; where people who have experienced homelessness support peers currently experiencing homelessness in transition to housing security.
3. Build social, deeply affordable, green housing (long-term solutions): we must rapidly build affordable housing throughout the city by increasing investments in social housing, ending zoning laws which have segregated Seattle, and prioritizing housing for Seattle's most vulnerable communities.
Additionally, arlier this spring, a spending plan developed in collaboration with modal, labor, and equity stakeholders for the new $20 vehicle license fee (VLF) was shared with City Council. The plan prioritized safety, equity, and maintaining Seattle’s streets, sidewalks and bridges. In May, City Council approved its implementation for the second half of 2021. This will generate $3.6 million of revenues this year and $7.2 million estimated in future years spread across a variety of maintenance efforts that are difficult to attract grant funding for, as well as some investments in the city’s Vision Zero program: bike lanes, sidewalks, and other infrastructure improvements.
Truth is we have a deteriorating bridge problem which could require its only levy if we do not find more viable options for progressive taxation and state funding to support key infrastructure improvements that impact freight and industries that are key for the entire region. That being said, bridges is one of our most pressing infrastructure issues.
We will soon renew our Move Seattle levy which is supposed to improve bus, sidewalk, and biking infrastructure. We have not delivered on our promises for the Move Seattle levy. As a City, we need to account for why before asking for voters to fund the next levy, identify priority areas for increased transportation infrastructure, and employ an intersectional equity lens to ensure we are meeting the needs of our intersectional disability communities.
One of the things the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us is that in a crisis public transportation can and should be free permanently. Our transportation is woefully inaccessible for many. In addition to being costly, in communities with the most marginalized populations there seems to be the least amount of access to public transportation. Throughout the course of the pandemic, free public transit has helped working families free up some transportation costs for other essential expenses. As such, we must maintain ORCA programs and, where possible, expand them by lowering barriers to access. ORCA 4 All can become a reality on the way to free public transit for all! We also need to fully divest from any form of fare enforcement. Fare enforcement does not serve as a deterrent and ultimately penalizes and criminalizes poverty, especially for our unhoused neighbors, who are already marginalized for being poor in public.
Moreover, it is so important that elected officials be transparent and accountable. We are working with many of our endorsers and community-based coalitions to develop a plan for how our campaign will remain transparent and accountable once elected. This will include townhalls, attendance at community organizing meetings and events, and regular report outs at minimum. By committing to these structures, I will be able to model transparency and accountability and call upon many community members to put pressure on other elected officials, whether they are my colleagues at the City or whether they are legislators at other levels of government.
I do not want to be in office forever. Unlike many who run, I have no interest in becoming a career politician. Rather, I hope that my years in City Hall will help to build the foundation that our city needs in order to take the necessary steps to combat the climate crisis, end houselessness, and revitalize our region’s labor movement. My “legacy” would be helping communities organize to do so in a self-sustained manner, and to elevate young workers who will one day succeed me and continue the important work. This is why, if our campaign is ultimately unsuccessful in getting elected, I remain committed to the work. I cannot stop organizing -- but I hope that organizing from a seat on Seattle’s City Council will help the communities I am accountable to have a transformative voice in shaping city policy.
The lessons in the Alchemist are timeless and grounding for living a better, more loving, and full life. The below quote sums up why this is my favorite book.
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
I am running for office because an unprecedented crisis demands a transformative response. The most transformative solutions come from those who are most impacted by the crises we are facing. This past year the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the pre-existing conditions of gross inequity and inequality in our communities. While the wealthiest in our City have grown wealthier; the gap between the rich and poor has continued to grow exponentially.
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Campaign website
Oliver's campaign website stated the following themes. See their campaign website for links within themes to other platforms.
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Housing For All Seattle is facing a dire housing crisis that city policies can solve. With the city’s Comprehensive Plan implementation on the horizon, now is the time to think big and bold about housing in Seattle. Affordable Housing We must rapidly build affordable housing throughout the city by increasing investments in social housing, ending zoning laws which have segregated Seattle, and prioritizing housing for Seattle’s Black Trans & Queer communities. House our Neighbors The city should invest in green social deeply affordable housing making building, acquiring and preserving affordable units a number one priority. We must also work collaboratively with the King County Regional Homelessness authority to develop comprehensive upstream and downstream solutions that prioritize peer navigators, bridge and supportive housing, hoteling, safe zones, and dignified tiny house villages. Stop the Sweeps The current city policy of destroying encampments established by the unhoused is cruel, inhumane, and needs to end immediately. We do not have enough housing, non-congregate shelters, bridge and transitional housing for all of our residents who are living outside. Sweeping people with nowhere safer to go is unconscionable and only worsens the public health and safety crisis. Additionally, it makes it near impossible for support workers and peer navigators to find residents once appropriate housing and support options are available. Radical accessibility The City of Seattle should create a fund inside the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department to support people who use the parks for housing, enabling parks to help sustainably and humanely address the needs of unsheltered people while expanding green spaces in the city and absorbing unneeded roadways. Ending sweeps and utilizing those dollars for garbage pick-up, sanitation, mobile hygiene stations (including showers and clothes washing), accessibility of public restrooms and water stations, and mobile clinics and supports is essential to reduce harm and increase health and safety. We must also leverage harm reduction strategies to immediately improve health and safety outcomes for all of our residents living outside. Solidify an effective regional approach to addressing the housing affordability and homelessness crisis. Divest from Harmful Punitive Systems to Invest in Holistic Community Health & Safety Seattle spends far too much of its revenue on cops and courts, while our communities lack basic necessities. City policies can change to invest in human needs. We must address the root causes of harm, invest in culturally responsive community-led care solutions, and stop punishing people for the failures of the system. Following the recommendations of Seattle’s 2018 “Workforce Re-entry Work Group,” we must stop criminalizing homelessness and sex work. We must allocate funds historically used on a problematic model of policing to invest in housing, childcare, and support systems for our youth. It’s time to end Seattle’s contract with King County Jail. Seattle can lead on racial justice by ending the practice of collecting city revenue through fines and civil asset forfeiture, and can civilianize 911 for a more effective emergency response. Environmental Justice A Seattle Green New Deal can eliminate climate pollution by 2030, address historical injustice and to create thousands of good jobs. SEATTLE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL has already been leading the way and it is time that the City Council follow the lead of the people. 1. In a cosmopolitan, 21st century city, public transportation should be universal and free. 2. To address and alleviate present and historic wrongs, Seattle must formally collaborate with the Duwamish and other Coast Salish nations to arrive at a stewardship plan for Seattle -- a city named for a Duwamish Chief. 3. To lead a just transition to a sustainable future, Seattle must empower and employ Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and women-led construction companies in building social housing and infrastructure. 4. Fossil fuels are responsible for 86% of all residential and commercial emissions. The City of Seattle should fund a just transition by replacing fossil gas systems for all low-income residences while requiring commercial buildings to reach Carbon Zero by 2025. Pay for replacing fossil gas systems for all lower income residential buildings and require commercial buildings to eliminate their emissions in five years. 5. Because transportation is Seattle’s largest source of carbon emissions, we must mandate and incentivize employers to allow workers to labor from home. Children, Youth, and Families Deserve to Thrive City policies can give young people, parents, and households the support they need to thrive -- not just survive -- in Seattle. The COVID-19 pandemic has reintroduced the need for municipal broadband internet. We must identify a funding source and timetable to provide this 21st century infrastructure to a 21st century city. Instead of cops and security guards, restorative justice coordinators, family support workers, counselors, and healthcare professionals belong in our schools. We can start by increasing funding to the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department’s My Brother’s Keeper and My Sister’s Keeper initiatives. Elders and children deserve quality eldercare and childcare. Let’s partner with organized labor to raise wages for homecare workers, while eliminating antiquated zoning laws that make childcare facilities in much of the city. Racial and Economic Justice The wealth gap in Seattle is unjust and racialized. City policies can help to close it. When we alleviate the burdens of the most marginalized, all will benefit. Following the recommendations of the City of Seattle’s 2018 “Progressive Revenue Taskforce on Housing and Homelessness,” Seattle must tax the wealthy to support people forced to the bottom of the economy. Seattle has the power to implement commercial rent control. Especially as we recover from COVID-19, this would help reduce the rates of displacement seen in community small businesses, particularly those in the Central Area and South End. Gig workers and contract laborers need a comprehensive Freelancer’s Bill of Rights that includes city ordinances ensuring timely repayment, portable benefits packages, and a ban on non-compete clauses that restrict worker mobility. Following the lead of Evanston, Illinois, Seattle can be the largest city in the nation to provide reparations to eligible Black residents. They can be funded by additional budgetary cuts to the Seattle Police Department negotiated in the biennial negotiations between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Officers Guild. We have much ongoing work to do in addressing the devastating impacts of stolen land and genocide upon the Coastal Salish peoples of our region. Learn more about Progressive Revenue Disaster Relief and Preparing for Disasters When disaster strikes, people with the most wealth have the easiest time, and poor people and BIPOC are in the most danger. City policies could make a difference in preparing all of Seattle for the next time the air is full of smoke, or for when the next pandemic or earthquake hits us. Ensure a just recovery from COVID-19, so that no one loses housing, people can re-enter the workforce, and COVID-19 doesn’t leave Seattle with even worse racial and gender wealth gaps than we had before. Ensure racial, economic, disability, and gender justice in Seattle vaccine distribution planning. Build infrastructure for disasters to come, building out neighborhood hubs and resourcing block-by-block preparations so that everyone has backup sources of water and power, air filters, masks and other necessities for when disaster strikes. Assume that the federal government responds to disasters slowly and unevenly and prepare for Seattle to shore up our communities (especially those often excluded from federal disaster relief, like undocumented communities) when disaster hits. Thriving Sustained Local Arts and Culture Community Local artists and cultural workers are essential to the health of our communities. Arts and cultural practices promote the mental, social and spiritual health of our communities, and access to the arts helps young people thrive. A thriving creative economy starts with the health and well-being of our artists, cultural workers, theatre workers, contractors and freelancers. The foundation of any community is the people. If we want to have a thriving creative economy it starts with ensuring that the workers have the things they need to thrive. Many workers in our creative economy are freelancers who have little to no control over when they are paid, are subjected to restrictive and exploitative contracts, and do not have access to benefits such as healthcare and paid time off. Everyone deserves the option to work where you want to when you need to, a stable and regular pay schedule, contracts that give workers legal claim to pay and benefits, portable benefits (where necessary and applicable), and protections from retaliation. In order for our local creative economy to be sustainable and thriving, the workers--the people who make our creative economy what it is--must first be sustained and thriving. Learn more about our Arts Platform Universal Healthcare Healthcare is a human right. Access to quality healthcare, including mental healthcare, should not be dependent upon someone’s employment, marital status, immigration status, or gender. Ensuring that everyone has health care prevents expensive emergency room visits, reduces the spread of disease, and improves everyone’s health in the City, as well as reducing contact with the criminal legal system. Guarantee mental health care to all Seattle residents who want it. Guarantee full-spectrum health support for all Seattle residents who use drugs who want it. Guarantee access to gender-affirming health care to all Seattle residents. Support community schools which would include health services for youth and families. Democracy and Participation We need the people of the City, especially working people, to have more say in what goes on in our city. That means how we develop the city, and how we generate revenue and what we spend it on. Ensuring full transparency and accountability for all aspects of the budget. Scale up participatory budgeting so that people can spend revenue based on collectively identified community needs. Build City processes designed for participation and accountability rather than elite control. Fund neighborhood and community-based trainings for building local mutual aid projects and networks. Ensure that participation in City processes is accessible to all Seattle residents, reimagining democracy through the lens of universal design.[38] |
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| —Nikkita Oliver's 2021 campaign website[39] | ||
2017
Oliver's campaign website listed the following themes for 2017:
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Our Seattle is a city that shows up–for $15 now, at the airport with our immigrant and refugee communities, at the womxn’s march, in council chambers to protest the new youth jail, to challenge the police bunker, and to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline! We are a city where the people mobilize for justice and equity. We deserve public servants who show up with the same tenacity and conviction for justice and equity with which we do. Government, including local government, is not working for the people. The obstacles impeding justice for all are greater than ever before–even in “progressive” Seattle. Many of us in the Peoples Party have been forced from our homes by unmanageable rent increases. But we are not alone. In fact, displacement has become the story of so many Seattleites. Construction cranes, blocked roads, and rerouted buses are the status quo. Developer driven re-zones and growth are swallowing our city whole! The residents who made the Emerald City the innovative and cultural gem it is today are being pushed out and replaced with murals, cultural relics, and colorful crosswalks. Seattle is quickly becoming a museum of our contributions; a place we can visit but we cannot live. The current state of bureaucracy is a manifestation of what happens when bigotry and racism go unchecked and unchallenged; when politics and politicians work for their own interests and the interests of corporations; when progressive speak is not met with progressive action; when the people are silenced in the name of an outdated political process and democracy becomes nothing more than a meaningless slogan. Now, more than ever, we need to be courageous to organize for justice, to draw hard lines in the sand, to protect those in our communities who are the targets of hate and bigotry. We need hope–the kind of hope which only grows through intersectional collective actions and movements to build the kind of world our children most need. A world where the human right to clean water, housing, and education are not simply discussed but are implemented. A world free of state-sanctioned violence. A world where all people, regardless of class, creed, race, gender, or religion, are able to live healthy and free without the fear of threat or discrimination. If we are to thrive beyond the next four years of the current administration, our Seattle needs to invest in and protect the residents who make Seattle home. We must develop a participatory government structure where the people–not corporations, politicians, or developers–determine what growth and innovation looks like for our Seattle. We need public servants who are led by and accountable to the grassroots; who are responsive and humble; who are unafraid to listen and act; who unapologetically take on historical and present day injustices; who embrace the requests, critiques and criticisms of all communities as an opportunity to be better. Our Seattle has forgotten its greatest asset–the People! And we, the People, require our Seattle be equitable, just, and responsive to the needs and concerns of the most marginalized in our communities. We require our Seattle be directed by the intersectional and equitable participation of our many communities in our local government. We require our Seattle put the needs and best interest of people over corporations and politics. We, the Peoples Party, believe our Seattle is best led by us working together in accountable relationship with our elected public servants. For these reasons and our belief in the power and brilliance of our communities we are running Nikkita Oliver for Mayor. Nikkita Oliver is a beloved and trusted name in grassroots organizing in Seattle. Whether on stages and in classrooms as a teaching artist, or in the courts and streets as a lawyer and legal observer, her track record, experience, and selfless dedication as a truly progressive servant of the people speaks for itself. The Peoples Party of Seattle is running Nikkita Oliver to break down barriers and open doors for collective leadership that is willing, able, and experienced in divesting from practices, corporations, and institutions that don’t reflect the values and interests of our city. This campaign re-imagines the electoral process to transform governance systems and build community power that asserts the brilliance of all Seattleites.[40][38] |
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| —Nikkita Oliver (2017) | ||
See also
2021 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Nikkita Oliver's 2021 campaign website, "Meet Nikkita Oliver," accessed July 7, 2021
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 5, 2021
- ↑ King County, Washington, "Who has filed: 2017 candidate filing," accessed May 19, 2017
- ↑ Alliance for Gun Responsiblity, "ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY VICTORY FUND ENDORSES JENNY DURKAN FOR SEATTLE MAYOR, LEGISLATIVE AND LOCAL CANDIDATES THROUGHOUT WASHINGTON STATE," September 18, 2017
- ↑ Democracy for America, "http://democracyforamerica.com/site/page/democracy-for-america-endorses-cary-moon-for-seattle-mayor," September 7, 2017
- ↑ Equal Rights Washington, "Endorsements," accessed October 16, 2017
- ↑ King County Democrats, "Our Candidates," accessed August 28, 2017
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "Moon grabs key Dem nod in Seattle mayor’s race amid Durkan’s union endorsements," August 24, 2017
- ↑ M.L. King County Labor Council, "2017 Endorsements," August 24, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Education Association, "WEA PAC," accessed October 16, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Weekly, "Sweep the Sweepers! Our Endorsements For the Nov. 7 Election," October 18, 2017
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 The Stranger, "Labor Split Begins as Cary Moon Gets First Union Endorsement in Mayoral Race," August 25, 2017
- ↑ SEIU 925, "2017 Candidate Endorsements," accessed September 19, 2017
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "Seattle Times endorsements for the Nov. 7 general election," September 7, 2017
- ↑ The Stranger, "The Stranger's Endorsements for the November 7, 2017, General Election," October 11, 2017
- ↑ UFCW 21, "UFCW 21 Largest Private Sector Union Endorses Moon for Mayor," September 29, 2017
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "Moon backpedals on ‘right to shelter,’ dents Durkan’s labor lead in Seattle mayoral race," September 29, 2017
- ↑ KING 5, "Local businesses endorse former US Attorney Jenny Durkan for Seattle mayor," May 30, 2017
- ↑ M.L. King County Labor Council, "2017 Endorsements," June 22, 2017
- ↑ Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle, "Home," accessed July 11, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Democratic Socialists of America, "Dispatches," accessed June 23, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Education Association, "WEA PAC," accessed June 23, 2017
- ↑ Washington Hospitality Association, "Seattle restaurants and hotels endorse Jenny Durkan, Sara Nelson and Scott Lindsay," June 19, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Subway, "2017 Primary Endorsements," accessed September 19, 2017
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "Editorials," accessed July 11, 2017
- ↑ Seattle Met, "Labor Groups Divided on Endorsements for Mayor," July 12, 2017
- ↑ Sierra Club PAC Washington State, "Endorsements 2017 Primary," accessed July 25, 2017
- ↑ The Stranger, "Kshama Sawant Will Endorse Nikkita Oliver for Mayor, Jon Grant for City Council," May 17, 2017
- ↑ The Stranger, "The Stranger's Endorsements for the August 1, 2017, Primary Election," July 12, 2017
- ↑ The Urbanist, "2017 Primary Endorsements," July 6, 2017
- ↑ UFCW 21, "2017 Primary Election Candidate Endorsement Recommendations," July 11, 2017
- ↑ Washington Conservation Voters, "Endorsements," accessed June 23, 2017
- ↑ 32nd District Democrats, "2017 Election Endorsements," March 10, 2017
- ↑ 36th District Democrats, "Executive Board Makes Recommendations for 2017 Primary!" May 21, 2017
- ↑ 37th District Democrats, "2017 Election Endorsements," accessed July 25, 2017
- ↑ 43rd District Democrats, "2017 Endorsement Results," June 21, 2017
- ↑ 46th District Democrats, "46th District Endorsements," accessed June 23, 2017
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Nikkita Oliver's 2021 campaign website, "Policies," accessed October 22, 2021
- ↑ Nikkita Oliver for Mayor, "Why We Are Running," accessed June 21, 2017
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