No Good Choices
There are no good choices in this race. Republican Amy Cruver is a former Pierce County Charter Review Commissioner and a former assistant to Republican state Rep. Jim McCune. She's running on a thoroughly conservative platform that points Pierce County away from a progressive future. Her appalling statements on public safety rely heavily on utilizing law enforcement, imprisonment, and reducing public safety nets while letting private organizations pick up the slack. By drawing direct comparisons between the houseless and people with addiction problems and stating that "justice must be metered out to criminals," she criminalizes poverty and promotes the idea that cities can arrest their way out of the housing crisis and public health issues. Cruver states that she will reduce regulations at all levels for infrastructure, including reducing environmental restrictions like buffer zones. Paradoxically, she says that removing such regulations will help the county invest in roads and bridges, but also wants to reduce taxes and state spending, which directly pay for these projects.
She is running against Joe Zaichkin, a self-described conservative Republican who worked as a commercial truck driver for over 30 years. His available platform is thin. With his statement that "every job is essential and it's time to get people back to work" without any allusion to improving public health and our medical system, Zaichkin places a greater emphasis on the economy than the health of his potential constituents. His Facebook includes pro-Trump articles and posts decrying the coronavirus and mask-wearing as overblown.
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Amy Cruver
There are no good choices in this race. Republican Amy Cruver is a former Pierce County Charter Review Commissioner and a former assistant to Republican state Rep. Jim McCune. She's running on a thoroughly conservative platform that points Pierce County away from a progressive future.