But there was a difference. Moon, an urban activist, bluntly talked about racial privilege and class identity as root causes of Seattle's problems, to be rooted out.The Emerald City, she argued, has been at the beck and call of "white people who have access to power and think they are superior." The solution is a city government, top to bottom, of "racial, gender and income equity." Cary Moon SeattlePI

“We're looking to the budget as it is and the resources that we've had so that we can make sure that moving forward we can really tackle these problems without having to say, ‘Mother may I?' to Olympia," Jenny Durkan
“I'm not asking for permission from Olympia,. “I'm building the public will and leading from the city of Seattle because this is a problem we need to solve and we need to take ownership of it." Cary Moon