City of Burien

Pedro Olguin is an Organizing Coordinator with Teamsters Local 117. As an advocate for workers, Olguin's campaign has focused on the lack of family wage jobs and affordable housing that disproportionately impacts women, children, and people of color. He supports alternatives to arresting people for being homeless and wants to improve relationships between the police and community groups.

Pedro Olguin is running against Libertarian Charles Schaefer, Gary Wood, Robert Richmond III, who is running on an energy/homelessness platform, and Joel Manning, who advocates for aggressive anti-homeless policies. Olguin is the best choice in this race.

Jimmy Matta is running for Position 3 with a deep understanding of the struggles of working families. His family immigrated to the U.S. from Guatemala, and by the time he was a teenager Matta had dropped out of high school to support his family in the fields. He later started a construction business, and went on to become a representative for the Carpenters Union for over 20 years. If elected, Matta wants to create dedicated positions in the city to support local businesses and to assist with the homelessness crisis and connect people to existing services. He would also work on issues of affordable housing and developing community policing programs.

Matta is running against Austin Tucker, who is not running a competitive campaign, and conservative incumbent Debi Wagner, who has voted against sanctuary city status. Matta is the best choice in this race.

Incumbent Nancy Tosta is serving her first term on the Burien City Council and has served as Deputy Mayor for two years. She has served on a multitude of local government and policy groups, including the King County City Climate Collaboration, the Burien Ad-Hoc Social Services Funding Committee, and as a South Correctional Entity (SCORE) administrative board member. Her campaign emphasizes funding social services, implementing block watches and other community methods of public safety, and improving youth programs and parks. In the last four years, Tosta has worked on non-arrest solutions for homelessness, advocated for more transportation options, and voted to increase investments in social services.

Tosta is running against a slate of similar candidates who are running on a conservative anti-crime platform: Jill Esau, Darla Green, and Mary Russell. Tosta is the most experienced and progressive candidate in this race.

Krystal Marx is running for Position 7 on a "Burien for All" platform that focuses on social equity and community-based crime solutions. She promotes the Housing First approach to homelessness and would seek involvement and feedback on community issues from the most-impacted groups. She is a former nonprofit Operations Manager and community educator. Marx is the best choice in this race.