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Kshama Sawant (/ k ə ˈ ʃ ʌ m ɑː s ɑː ˈ w ʌ n t / kə-SHUM-ah sah-WUNT; born October 17, 1973) [1] is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. She was a member of Socialist Alternative, the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.
Former SAlt member and former Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. Socialist Alternative (SAlt or SA) is a far-left Trotskyist political party in the United States. SAlt formed as Labor Militant in 1986, when members of the Committee for a Workers' International created a US branch.
The average donation to A Better Seattle was over $750, to Recall Sawant was $149.46, and to the Kshama Solidarity Fund was $88.89. The majority of donations to A Better Seattle were the maximum allowed while 4.4% of the donations to Recall Sawant and around 2% of the donations to the Kshama Solidarity Fund were the maximum allowed. [27]
Council Member Kshama Sawant, a socialist and the only Indian American on the City Council, said the ordinance, which she proposed, does not single out one community, but it accounts for how caste ...
Kshama Sawant: 2015 John Okamoto [note 3] - Distr 1 Distr 2 Distr 3 Distr 4 Distr 5 Distr 6 Distr 7 Pos 8 Pos 9 2015 Lisa Herbold: Bruce Harrell: Kshama Sawant: Rob Johnson: Debora Juarez: Mike O'Brien: Sally Bagshaw: Tim Burgess: Lorena Gonzalez: Kirsten Harris-Talley [note 4] 2017 Abel Pacheco Jr. [note 5] Teresa Mosqueda: 2019 Tammy Morales ...
Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet claims state and local tax (SALT) deduction benefits “the wealthiest people in these very blue states in the east and west coasts.” Verdict: True The ...
[16] [17] [18] Kshama Sawant, who was first elected in the 2013 election and was the only Socialist Alternative member on the city council, filed to run for reelection on January 11, 2019, and launched her campaign on January 24, becoming the first incumbent city councilor to do so.
In November 2013, Socialist Alternative (SA) candidate Kshama Sawant was elected to Position 2 of the Seattle City Council. Sawant was the first socialist on the council in recent memory. [265] [266] Philip Locker, at the time a national organizer for SA, says it "was a watershed moment for the socialist movement across the country." [267]