Kshama Sawant’s campaign website highlights the following issues:

Excerpt: "Our city is becoming increasingly unequal and unaffordable. In one Seattle, glittering fortunes are being made for the super–rich and the major corporations that dominate its landscape. The other Seattle, where the rest of us live, faces skyrocketing rents and underfunded services.

Excerpt: "We need a Millionaires’ Tax to fund mass transit, education, and social services! Tax large corporations to fund public services. Under existing law, this can be done with a major increase in developer impact fees, an employer 'head tax,' an increased tax on commercial parking lot owners, and excise taxes' on banks, big box retailers, and franchise businesses. No corporate welfare and developer handouts! Reduce the unfair tax burden on working people, homeowners, and small businesses."

Excerpt: "While billions of dollars are being spent on the Bertha boondoggle and safety concerns grow, Seattle faces the fourth-worst traffic in the nation. We need a major expansion of mass transit to take cars off the road, address climate change, and make Seattle a more livable city."

Excerpt: "Seattle can be a national leader in establishing affordable, ultra-high-speed municipal internet as a public alternative to the virtual monopoly of Comcast’s and CenturyLink’s overpriced and slow service. As chair of the City Council Energy Committee, municipal broadband is one of my top priorities that I am working on in 2015."

Excerpt: "Seattle should be a leader in addressing the climate crisis. Oil and coal trains passing through downtown Seattle every day are fueling global warming while creating a serious public safety risk from of oil train derailment and explosion and health hazards from coal dust. I reject the false dichotomy of 'jobs vs. the environment.' We need a major green jobs program and new living-wage union jobs for workers who face job losses from fossil-fuel-based industries."

Excerpt: "To enforce the new minimum wage and to protect against wage theft, workers need to have a union to represent them. I am proud to be a member of the American Federation of Teachers Local 1789 and represent it as their delegate to the Martin Luther King Jr. County Labor Council."