2005 Seattle Elections

Primary Elections Voters' Guide

Darlene Madenwald

Tel: (206) 714-0367
Fax: (206) 324-4786
Email: darlene@electdarlene.com
Web: www.electdarlene.com

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Written Voters' Pamphlet Statement Submitted by Candidate

I love this city. I came here as a young nurse in 1966. Now, at 61 years of age, I am very concerned about some problems our city must boldly face, as it grows even larger over the next 20 years. With the ways things stand now, we are slowly robbing our grandchildren of their future quality of life by our inaction to tackle many of our big city problems. I believe the gridlock within bureaucracy has become as bad as the gridlock on I-5.

I'm a doer: I get things done. I co-founded 1,000 Friends of Washington, and was President of the Washington Environmental Council for 4 years. Now, I'm President of the American Lung Association of Washington; I'm fighting to get smoking out of our public buildings and restaurants by working hard to get measure I-901 placed on the November ballot.

As a nurse, I think it is time we take the temperature of this city and do something that will actually make your life, and that of your family, better. You're paying for it - in more ways than one.

I take notice:

• when one in six families in this city has asthma;
• when our region has the highest rates of breast cancer in the nation;
• when smog and air emissions have grown exponentially along with contamination of our public waterways.

I have a long history of getting things done: Pacific NW magazine once called me the "velvet steamroller" because I got things done without the brutality and rudeness we see now in local government.

Not only am I a nurse, public health advocate, citizen activist, environmentalist, breast cancer survivor, mother and grandmother, but I am also a businesswoman with a fresh perspective that is missing on the city council today. I pay taxes like you do, I own and run my business. I have years of experience mediating solutions to complex problems for the public and private sectors.

Some say our deteriorating health is not a city issue; it's a county or a state issue. I say, if we don't protect our own health, trust me, no one will. I say, let's get moving and clean this town up while we still can. I've spent my life advocating for the little guy, and now I'd like a chance to make this city healthier.

My name is Darlene Madenwald … you can trust a nurse.

The above statement was written by the candidate, who is solely responsible for the contents therein.