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Stephanie Mora: Proven Leadership for a Safer, Stronger Burien
I’ve had the honor of serving as your voice on the Burien City Council for the last four years, and I am asking for your vote in the coming election so that we can continue building on what we’ve accomplished the last four years.
As your council member, I have worked to make Burien a place where both families and small businesses can thrive. I have improved public safety by consistently advocating for law enforcement and police accountability. I have backed treatment-first solutions in order to address addiction and homelessness, and have effectively pushed policies that are keeping encampments out of Burien. I have opposed new taxes and worked to ensure that our city lives within its fiscal means. I have supported our airport committee in their efforts to minimize noise and air pollution in our community. I believe, as your council member, it is my responsibility to keep a skeptical eye on accepted city government practices, and I am always on the lookout for waste and redundancy. Most importantly, I am tenacious in my mission to ensure transparency and accountability to you, the residents of Burien.
Last year, when I was elected Deputy Mayor, I worked closely with regional partners and stood firm when outside agencies, including the leadership of King County, failed to live up to their responsibility to Burien’s need for action regarding the drug and homelessness crisis. Additionally, I supported the termination of our contract with outreach contractor REACH (a component of Evergreen Treatment Services) and replaced them with The More We Love, an outreach contractor who successfully bridged the gap between policing and our social service approach, that is, connecting those in need of treatment and shelter options with the necessary services instead of the revolving door of arrest and release.
I also believe it is important for our council positions to remain nonpartisan. We are a small city where divisive politics serve no one. Therefore, I choose to avoid asking for endorsements from any political organization. I will always focus on the interests of Burien residents and representing them, not the dominant political establishment or outside interests.
I am, however, proud to have been endorsed by the King County Police Officers Guild because of my dedication to public safety, and my support for the officers who protect our community every day.
Burien deserves elected officials who listen, care, and deliver on their promises. I have been and will continue to be a Councilmember who does just that. I am very proud of what we have accomplished together, but I believe we’ve only just begun. With your support, I will continue to work on building a safer, more affordable community filled with opportunity for all of its residents.
Vote Stephanie Mora for Burien City Council because results matter, and Burien deserves leadership that puts residents of Burien first.
You got our vote. We appreciate how seriously you take your job and your quick response when we have had a question. You don’t just advocate for one segment of the population. We appreciate your efforts to make Burien as safe as possible for all of us. Thank you!
You did nothing to resolve the issue with the one million dollars King County offered for homeless houses, resulting in the withdrawal of the offer. You proposed restrictions on the City Light property that could have been used for citing it that were not at all well thought out.
You believed the residents who said they were threatened by the church homeless camp without any valid evidence to support it. Then stood by while their permit was not renewed. This resulted in those homeless moving downtown. Now you claim to either want to fix or solve the problem that you in fact contributed to. Supporting The More We Love does not erase this.
You proposed amendments deliberately at the 11th hour for things that already had consensus that effectively either delayed or sunk things that you could have brought up much earlier.
You supported the upzoning in areas where it was not appropriate, raising property taxes before anything gets built.
Not everyone has short memories or is inattentive to the actions of your tenure, not just “what have you done for me lately?”
Here’s the facts for you. The one million was pure KC bait and there was no plan to enhance or continue funding it. The SCL property was not under the ownership of Burien and in fact next to a High School. The church camp broke promises of barrier level and documented crime and issues existed around it. Stephanie is only one member of the Council yet you seem to think her actions alone are why Burien has issues, step back and realize people like Rocco are why we ended up with those problems in the first place.
Hey Cloud….
1) perhaps you have more insight as to where the budget was hiding to sustain the million dollar pallet village? King Countys Trojan Horse had zero budget for ongoing operations.
2) Churches are not encampments, thats not what they were zoned for and it is not up to them to destroy the neighborhoods they occupy.
3) Mora was the sole Council member that put forth a proposal to pull back some of the ridiculous up-zoning in environmentally sensitive areas and get them back into the correct zoning code that the city developed.
You apparently do have a short term memory, and a distorted ones as well.
It is very clear that Mora is an independent thinker and not a tool of the “Progressive Democratic” machine that receives a lot of funding from outside the state. The so called “Progressive” Ticket trying to take back power on the Burien city council are taking orders from others. It runs all the way up to the mayor race in Seattle. We have a chance to dig our selves out of this mess and it is not with the far right. We need to move back to the middle and common sense.
I support Stephanie Mora for Burien (even though I didn’t vote for her originally). Her response to my concerns were prompt and she takes her role seriously. I appreciate her dedication to our city.
Ditto – Kathy McNee
Ditto – Louis G
Ditto – Terry M
And thank you CJ
Oh and by the way Stephanie got our vote!