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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.
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]
Former SAlt member and former Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant Socialist Alternative ( SAlt or SA ) is a 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.
In May 2024 the most prominent elected representative of ISA, Kshama Sawant resigned from the ISA and its US section Socialist Alternative. Sawant had previously issued an open letter to members of Socialist Alternative, laying out the political reasons why she, and six other leading members of Socialist Alternative were resigning from their ...
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 ...
Nelson was bitter after Conlin's loss to Socialist Kshama Sawant, stating that the council is responding to activist voices. [3] In 2009, Nelson, along with her husband Matt Lincecum, founded Fremont Brewing in the namesake neighborhood of Fremont, earning the King County Business of the Year award in 2014. [2]
Richard Conlin (born May 1, 1948) is a former member of the Seattle City Council, first elected to council in 1997 and reelected in 2001, 2005, and 2009.He was elected, unanimously, by the council to be its president on January 7, 2008 [2] and was unanimously reelected on January 4, 2010.
[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.