Tracey Carlos Thurston County Voting Guide

The following voters guide was done by Progressive photographer Tracey Carlos. Tracey has become a voice that can be 100% trusted and has never let us down. This is re-posted by permission from her personal Facebook page.

It is election time! Here are my endorsements based on who is on my ballot in the order they are listed first then some local races near me but not in my district

Initiative 1631
Initiative 1639
Initiative 940
Maintain Advisory Vote 19
Maria Cantwell
Denny Heck
Laurie Dolan
Beth Doglio
Steven Drew
Mary Johnson Hall
Linda Enlow
Tye Menser
Gary Winlock
Victor M. Minjares
Jeff Gadman 
Susan Owens
Steve Gonzalez
Sheryl Gordon McCloud 
Rebecca Glasgow
(I need to ask people about the district court judges)
Linda Oosterman
Proposition No 1 - Intercity Transit

Not on my ballot
Irene Bowling
Anneliese Feld 
David Daggett
Brennan Bailey 
Christine Kilduff
Sarah Smith 
The Lacey and Tumwater Parks Propositions

Good luck to all those on this list!!!

Progressive stores are still paying Puerto Rican employees

The following article was written by the amazing Tracey Carlos. We thank her for doing so. Please go check out her website at http://traceyquirk.wixsite.com/photorevolution

What makes a store progressive? We'd all like to shop in small, privately owned shops that pay
their employees well and give full benefits. But those are not only hard to find, they are often
outside our budget for day to day needs. When possible, small businesses owned by
progressives will always be my first choice. But, realistically, I also need to consider the big
chains.

So, what chains are ok? Target and Starbucks always stands up for LGBTQ people. WinCo is
employee owned. And, I recently discovered the stores owned by TJX Inc, TJ Maxx, JCPenney
(also LGBTQ friendly), Home Goods and Marshall’s, have been paying their Puerto Rican
employees while the stores have been closed. Starbucks and Nordstroms did as well.
Starbucks has been able to put all their employees back to work in the stores that are open, so
don't need to anymore. Nordstroms did for a while then offered employees a severance.
Obviously Nordstroms isn't one of the big chain stores I would choose to save money, but didn't feel it was fair to not mention them when listing stores that stepped up in Puerto Rico by taking care of their employees.

If I have to shop in big chain stores to save money, I will look to these places first. We should
reward good behavior in the corporations that are our neighbors as much as we boycott the
Hobby Lobbys, Papa Johns and Carl Jr's of the corporate world.

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