I was then and am still interested in advocating not just for our marriage rights that are so dear to me and increasingly threatened today, but for all queer people, and especially trans people, people of color, and trans people of color. The founders of the group, a lesbian South Asian couple, were plaintiffs in the 2005 case fighting for same-sex marriage but unfortunately lost at the Washington State Supreme Court. Prior to 2010, I was involved in Trikone-NW, a local LGBT organization focused on queer South Asians.
We got married less than a year after Washington State voted to legalize same-sex marriage, and two years before it was legalized nationally. Q: What is a specific example of a change you were part of that has made District 3 a better place? What was your role?Īgarwal: I am a first-generation gay immigrant from India who has been married to my husband for ten years. Here are all of the D3 Primary Survey answers organized by question:
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You can find our full coverage of the 2023 primary here. You can view every candidate's answers at one time on the All Candidates D3 Primary Survey Results Page here. Now it will be up to you to hold them to it - and show up. A lot of them have heard the complaints and are promising greater access and office hours in the district. Meanwhile, after years of complaints about challenges in connecting with the D3 representative's office, we also asked each candidate about their plans to connect with the communities they represent. We also asked how they would address issues around the community's relationship with the East Precinct. With help from readers, we asked what specific ideas make each candidate stand out and what positions were they willing to take heat for supporting. We asked the candidates about everything from policing to single family zoning to homelessness and lidding I-5. As you consider your August 1st primary ballot, we have 88 answers for you. If you have information about any of these incidents, please contact the Violent Crimes tip line at 20.CHS asked the eight candidates running in the District 3 primary election eleven questions about how they would serve the neighborhoods around Capitol Hill, the Central District, and First Hill on the Seattle City Council. Police were unable to find anyone who witnessed the shooting or could provide a suspect description. When officers arrived they found 16 spent shell casings in the street. A bystander heard the shots, found the victim, and drove him to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.ĭetectives found 30 spent shell casings at the shooting scene.Ībout 15 minutes later and two miles away, someone opened fire in the 4200 block of South Willow Street. The suspect opened fire on the victim striking him multiple times. The suspect, a convicted felon, is prohibited from possessing a firearm and was booked into King County Jail for multiple firearms violations.Ībout an hour later, at 12:05 AM Friday, a 54-year-old man was sitting in his car in the 3600 block of South Adams Street when a man armed with a gun approached him. A person riding the bus showed officers the suspect had hidden a gun under s a seat.
Officers entered the bus and took the suspect into custody and noticed a handgun magazine sticking out of his pants pocket. Officers quickly responded to the area and found the suspect getting onto a Metro bus. Witnesses called 911 at 10:50 Thursday night to report a man at a bus stop had just fired a handgun.
In the first incident, Police arrested a 34-year-old man after witnesses saw him fire a handgun in the SODO neighborhood around 11 PM Thursday. Police are investigating multiple overnight shootings including a man who opened fire in SODO then attempted to flee the scene in a bus before being arrested by police Thursday.
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