At Seattle Women's March, Women Lay Out 2018 Political Goals

SEATTLE, WA - Thousands of men and women partook in Saturday's Women's March in Seattle. They also brought thousands of different political views and priorities, from #metoo to black lives matter to environmental justice.

Patch spoke with women at the march about what their main political goals are for 2018. Here's what they told us:

Selena Kearney, Samuel Marx (age 7)
Residence: Seattle
Occupation: Photographer

"I'd like to see more urgency for the climate crisis," Kearney said. "I'm working specifically on infrastructure issues, like the liquefied natural gas plant in Tacoma."

Stephanie Mar
Residence: Bainbridge Island
Occupation: Bainbridge Island High School administrator

"We need to impeach Trump and clean up Congress, get rid of Mitch McConnell. Anything Trump is doing, their agenda, I'm against it."

Virigina Spears (L), Kathryn Lupfer (R), and Chloe (age 8)
Residence: Port Orchard
Occupations: federal employee (Spears), student (Lupfer)

"I want to see the budget balanced," Spears said. "We need to stop doing everything on a credit card, like the tax breaks. It just adds to the deficit."

"I want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem, so anything I can do to support that. That's why I'm here," Lupfer said.

Sandra Olson (L) and Renee Tobin (R)
Residences: Edmonds (Olson), Gold Bar (Tobin)
Occupations: Retired (Olson), farrier (Tobin)

"The money needs to be taken out of politics," Tobin said. "We can't have special interest groups controlling the country anymore."

"Affordable healthcare. It's way at the top for me," Olson said. "It's a complex issue and it's going to take a lot of work."

Liv Miller (R) and Aiden Toome (L)
Residence: Redmond
Occupations: Students at Lake Washington High School

"I'm passionate about trans rights," Miller said. "Donald Trump repealed protections on trans students."

"Trans rights. It's impacted my life because personally I feel less safe at school," Toome said. Toome

Lisa (L), Mona (R), Nikki (C) (declined to provide last names)
Residences: Kent (Lisa), SeaTac (Mona), Renton (Nikki)
Occupations: business analyst (Lisa), King County worker (Nikki)

"Seattle is doing nothing about affordable housing," Lisa said. "[Political leaders] need to do more because it's a huge problem."

"What are we going to do for the homeless?" Mona wondered (she volunteers at the Salvation Army). "They need someplace dry and warm, and they need better access to social services."

"Along with homelessness, we need to see action on racism," Nikki said. "It's time to stand up."

Photos by Neal McNamara/Patch