Author: Teresa Mosqueda

by Sharon Maeda Once in a while, a Seattle City Councilmember resigns before their term is up. When Teresa Mosqueda was elected to the King County Council in November, it triggered a vacancy. What is different today is that her replacement will be appointed by eight council members, five of whom will have been in office 20 days or less! We can only hope that they have the wisdom and ethics to find someone with Mosqueda’s kind of commitment and … Read More

Few people have made as big an impact on Seattle politics in recent years as outgoing City Councilmember and incoming King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda. Mosqueda was first elected to a citywide position on Seattle’s City Council in 2017. She came out of organized labor, as a former campaign director at the AFL-CIO. She was part of a progressive wing on the City Council that pushed for taxing big business and expanding worker protections. She was also a part of … Read More

Jorge Barón secured a seat on the Metropolitan King County Council Thursday, and Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda moved closer to claiming a County Council seat as she extended her lead. … Read More

Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda leads Burien Mayor Sofia Aragon by a slim margin for King County Council’s District 8 seat in November’s general election race. Mosqueda has 52.4% of the vote (24,759 total votes) compared to Aragon’s 47.3% (22,364 total votes). … Read More

Martha Woodard and Juniper Rogneby are ahead in their contested school board races, and Teresa Mosqueda has won the race for County Council District 8. Those are the takeaways from the general election so far on Vashon. Results will continue trickling in from King County throughout the week, and this article will be updated periodically. … Read More

Seattle City Council budget chair Teresa Mosqueda pushed back on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposed JumpStart spending Friday, restoring nearly $20 million to the original spending plan compared to the mayor’s proposal. In the annual balancing package — an initial set of City Council amendments introduced in response to the mayor’s proposed budget — Mosqueda denied proposals from Harrell that would loosen restrictions on how revenue from the JumpStart payroll tax is spent. JumpStart, a payroll tax on top salaries at the city’s … Read More

Teresa Mosqueda wants to move from the Seattle City Council to the Metropolitan King County Council ... because the county has purview over public health, which she says is at the root of many problems the region faces. … Read More

Teresa Mosqueda, who instinctively looks at things through a lens of health equity, is a perfect match for the King County Council. … Read More

Teresa Mosqueda’s overwhelming decades of progressive work for justice makes it an easy choice. I will vote for Teresa Mosqueda. … Read More