The conversation that the people who live in Seattle hate to admit and do not read further is the topic of their neighborhood, livelihood, and stability shifted to feel like more decline than progress, you stop caring about politics and politicians. You care about truth and leadership that isn't afraid to face the questions most candidates dodge.

Housing costs drive up labor costs, which make everything else—food, rideshare, repairs—more expensive. If you don't solve housing, you won't solve affordability. Period. Rent for two bedrooms is $3,000, and full-time daycare for a toddler is $3,300. 32% of your check is going toward taxes and benefits. How can anyone live in this city and state? $196,000 and still struggling is an objective reality for a family of three, two parents, and a child.

We give big companies massive tax incentives in the name of job creation, but where are the jobs? Katie wants corporate accountability. She supports a vacancy tax on empty properties sitting idle in our neighborhoods, driving up prices while contributing nothing.

Katie Wilson didn't plan to run. She stepped up because she saw how out of step the current leadership is. She's not a career politician, and it shows—in a good way. She talks like someone who's lived paycheck to paycheck. We have not seen progress in homelessness and affordable housing. We have less shelter capacity than four years ago.

With FIFA coming, with affordability collapsing, with working families hanging on by a thread—Seattle doesn't need another ribbon-cutter. It requires a mayor who's already on the ground, already hearing us.

Go back and listen to the interview. No filters. Just facts.