Melissa WP Taylor Profile picture
Mom, small biz owner, healthcare expert, community leader. Fighting for everyone to have a fair chance to build a future where they thrive.
Oct 23, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
I appreciate @CityAttyPeteH & his team's work to find more effective ways to increase public safety & reduce prosecution & incarceration. The "lock 'em up" model doesn't work well for any of us.

Vote Nicole Thomas-Kennedy on Nov 2 to continue this work.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… More than 200 attorneys have signed a letter of support for Thomas-Kennedy, urging voters to pay more attention to the civil-law side of the city attorney’s office.

ntk4justice.com/letterofsupport
Oct 3, 2021 30 tweets 7 min read
Seattle's City Attorney's race keeps getting wilder and wilder. First, Tucker Carlson and his local right-wing media types decided to stoke fear and division against Nicole Thomas-Kennedy. Now her opponent’s supporters put up an illegal, heavily slanted and distorted smear site. Washington State has some of the best campaign finance transparency laws in the country. I love the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). Every dollar spent to influence an election must be reported through the PDC and available to Washington voters.
Sep 21, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
"Please do not silence survivors who know that rapists rarely rape only once, nor do they limit their abuses of power to that single act."

^^ This was my closing comment that was cut off in today's redistricting commission meeting. My comments from the beginning:

In May, I raised the potential for blackmail as a reason why Joe Fain’s rape allegation is relevant. Today, I’d like to talk about how abuses of power tend to work.