You know it. I know it. We all know it.
Everything keeps getting worse.
We get mad, we vote, we protest, we call our council members - everything just keeps getting worse.This is crazy. The definition of lunacy.
We have no power to protect ourselves from bad policy. The people of Seattle have no measurable way to guide our government outside of the election cycle. We have been told that our local representatives work to protect us - but every step of the policy making process is structured so we are kept out of it. This is a serious problem for all of us, regardless of our political differences.
Stop pretending that any of this is normal, healthy, or okay.
A healthy city is our responsibility.
Our elected officials have been fighting over us like parents in a custody battle, and we are the ones paying child support. It is time to grow up and accept that while bad policy may be someone else’s fault - a healthy city is our responsibility.
It doesn’t make sense to expect 9 people to know what is best for Seattle when we can ask everyone who lives in Seattle what they have to say about it. We must understand the limits of the structure we are using: policy is drafted and voted on by people who don’t need it. Our law makers need all the help they can get whether they know it or not.
Vote for your own voice
Don’t vote for a person, vote for a plan
My name is Mia Jacobson and I am running for Seattle City Council Position 9. The plan is to open up the policy making process so we can all work together to decide what works for all us.
If we make it ourselves, no one can take it from us.
Why isn’t our local legislative process working for us?
Legislation is crafted in rooms that private citizens cannot meaningfully access, contribute to, or hold accountable. We have no measurable impact on the decisions made by our representative outside of the election cycle.
We must prepare a process that allows the people of Seattle to guide their own government.
The local policy making process is not dynamic enough to adequately address our modern issues. Our current rate of technological advancement has created the common citizen to be a fundamentally different political creature that can know more and do more than any at other point in our known history.
When you vote rabbit, you don’t vote for a person - you vote for a plan.
We have outgrown the organizational model of representation. It doesn’t make sense for our elected officials to spend their time trying to figure out how to address an issue they have no personal experience with, when we can ask the people who experience the issue every day what would work for them.
I will rip down the door, so we can move forward
My name is Mia Jacobson. I am running for Seattle City Council Position 9.
It’s time to vote for your own voice.
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