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Weekend Listen: Seattle City Council Position 9 candidates on taxes, surveillance, and 'stay out' zones

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s election season. So today, we’re bringing you a candidate debate hosted by KUOW. This week, we’re looking at the candidates running for one of the citywide seats on Seattle City Council. 2026 will be a big year for the council – there’s a looming budget deficit, potential federal funding cuts, and, of course, the continuous threat of federal troops being sent to Seattle.

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0:55.4

Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. It's election season.

1:02.1

So today we're bringing you a candidate debate hosted by KUOW. This week, we're looking at the candidates running for one of the citywide seats on Seattle City Council.

1:11.7

2026 will be a big year for the council.

1:14.6

There's a looming budget deficit, potential federal funding cuts, and, of course, the continuous threat of federal troops being sent to Seattle.

1:23.1

The first candidate is a familiar name, incumbent Sarah Nelson, who was elected to the position

1:28.1

nine seat in 2021. She's the Seattle City Council president and co-founder of Fremont Brewing.

1:35.1

Her opponent is Dion Foster, former executive director of the nonprofit Washington Progress

1:40.6

Alliance, which advocated for a statewide capital gains tax. Foster is also a former

1:46.2

policy advisor for the city. Here's SoundSides, Libby Danklin. So before we get started, we're

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