Kshama Sawant serves on the Seattle City Council since 2013. In a city which hosts companies like Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon, she campaigns for issues like: a minimum wage for all, public transport payed by a millionaire's tax, rent control, stop Artic drilling, ...
During the 2019 election campaign, Amazon spent $1.5 million in an unsuccessful attempt to try an oust Sawant from the city council. Earlier Amazon heavily sponsored a referendum to successfully kill a tax that would have raised $50 million yearly for public housing and homeless services.
