Washington Primary Election: Mayor of Everett
Each of the three candidates has submitted a statement, along with details about their experience and education, to the Office of the Secretary of State. Read the candidates' statements below or find more details on these candidates here.
Cassie Franklin
Statement: When I was elected Mayor in 2018, Everett faced real, economic and safety challenges. These past eight years, I've led with a clear vision— investing in public safety, driving economic growth, addressing budget gaps, while protecting quality of life for all. Together, we've revitalized downtown, added 3000+ housing units, launched Everett Mall's redevelopment, and expanded our waterfront into a hub for business and recreation. The new Everett Outdoor Event Center is transformational – inspiring investment, creating jobs and accelerating growth and opportunity.
Public safety remains my top priority. With strong partnerships I've successfully led our Police, Alternative Response and city teams to reduce crime while expanding housing, treatment, and mental health services. Everett is safer because of this balanced approach.
I'm the experienced Mayor to keep Everett moving forward— through challenges and change. I've led across three federal administrations and have strong relationships to navigate the future. I'm honored to be supported by Police, Firefighters, Longshoremen (ILWU), Washington Multi-Family Housing Association, Congressman Larsen, Congresswoman DelBene and many local leaders and organizations.
Today we are one Everett - resilient, inclusive and vibrant. I'm proud of all we've achieved, and I ask for your support to continue building a safer, stronger Everett.
Scott Murphy
Statement: Whether it's public safety, increasing homelessness, public drug use, or Everett's serious budget spiral, we are worse off! We're not as safe as eight years ago.
I will make public safety Everett's top priority, starting with fully staffing the police department – many positions have been unfilled for years. Homelessness has increased 65% from 2018 to 2024. Everett needs a plan!
Since 2021, Everett has spent 38% of its Fund Balance (Rainy Day Fund) while cutting services like our Park Ranger program and library hours. The City now projects a $6.8 million deficit in 2026, with Fund Balance (Rainy Day Fund) exhausted by 2028. With Scott's experience as a former Councilmember, successful business leader, and CPA, Scott will restore fiscal discipline, balance the budget, prioritize essential services and ensure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. We have the opportunity to chart a new direction – 'Let's turn Everett around!'.
Endorsed by former Everett Mayor Ed Hansen; Councilmember Judy Tuohy, 9 former Councilmembers: Brenda Stonecipher; Shannon Affholter, Richard Anderson, Gigi Burke, Ron Gipson, Arlan Hatloe, Connie Niva, Mark Olson, Bill Rucker, Retired Police Chiefs: Jim Scharf, Al Shelstad; Retired Fire Captain Curt Rider, Everett Transit ATU 883, IBEW Local 77, IUPAT DC5
Rich Ryan
Statement: My name is Rich Ryan, and I am running for Mayor of Everett to provide practical leadership that reflects the needs of everyday people.
As a renter, IT professional, musician, and producer, I understand the challenges our community faces. Skyrocketing housing costs and economic pressures affect families every day. I'm not a career politician; I bring a perspective, rooted in real life experience.
My focus is on making Everett more affordable, welcoming, and transparent. I will encourage responsible housing development, protect tenants, and ensure local government is accountable to residents. I'll also invest in arts and culture, drawing people to our city and supporting local businesses.
My campaign is built on fairness, inclusion, openness, and respect for human rights. I'm committed to leading by example, with integrity, and without corporate funding. I'd be honored to earn your vote.
Janice R. Greene
Statement: I'm running for Mayor because Everett needs leadership grounded in real life. I raised three kids in our city, as a parent, and I know the choices our families too often face between housing, childcare, and other essentials. My professional career started as a union Machinist, and after 17 years I managed business portfolios. I later helped hundreds of small businesses find their economic footing, creating needed jobs and opportunities.
As Mayor, I'll bring unique perspectives and expertise to tackle the city's $12.6 million deficit, ensuring we don't turn our backs on core services and vulnerable neighbors. I'll champion economic development and family-wage jobs, expand childcare access, and address housing affordability so families are not priced out of our city and low-income residents are not pushed into homelessness. I'll support first responders and behavioral health responses through community partnerships and smart investments.
Endorsed by: Snohomish County Democrats; Sen. June Robinson; Rep. April Berg; Snohomish County Councilmember Megan Dunn, and more!
From steel-toed boots to executive leadership, I bring a lifetime of experience collaborating with labor, business, and community. With your vote, we can unite Everett to build the future we deserve!
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The story goes that Kennedy had hoped to use the trip to bring the two sides together in the interest of party harmony. Both Johnson and Connally would later dispute that notion. "Hell," Johnson said, "if he wanted to bring us together, he could have done that in Washington." In fact, the trip was mostly about money. As he geared up for 1964, Kennedy saw an opportunity to lean on Johnson and Connally to put the arm on wealthy Texas Democrats, many of whom opposed Kennedy, to support an Austin fundraiser that would add a million dollars to the campaign war chest—a huge sum at the time—and would jump-start the reelection effort. Getting Texans to step up would also be a loyalty test for Johnson, especially as rumors that he would be dropped from the ticket hung in the air. Connally opposed the trip due to the president's declining popularity in the state, which had seen a drop in Kennedy's approval rating from 76 percent to 50 since the beginning of the year due largely to Kennedy's stand on civil rights. Instead, Connally recommended that the president come in the beginning of the next calendar year in order to let things settle a bit. But when the Kennedy camp pushed for the trip in the fall of 1963, Connally pressed them to make it not just the fundraiser in Austin, but a two-day swing through the biggest cities in the state, which the Kennedy-Johnson ticket had won in 1960 by a scant two percentage points. Kennedy got his fundraiser, Connally got the president's commitment to a visit that would include stops in Houston and San Antonio on one day and Fort Worth, Dallas, and Austin the next. On the morning of Friday, November 22, John Kennedy was awakened in suite 850 of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth with a gentle rap on the door from George Thomas, who had traveled to Texas with him and the first lady. Thomas informed him that it was raining outside, but as Kennedy made his way to the window, he would find that it hadn't discouraged locals from turning out to greet him. The trip to Texas marked the first public outing for Jackie with her husband since losing Patrick three and a half months earlier. As ever, she proved to be a big draw, though she declined to participate in the first event of the day, a hastily arranged speech in the parking lot outside the hotel. Originally slated for 8:45 am, the event was rescheduled to mid-morning, then pulled back to 8:45 again due to the president's concerns that those in the audience would be late to work. "There are no faint hearts here in Fort Worth," he said to some 3,000 who braved the drizzle, "and I appreciate your being here this morning. Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes her longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when she does it." When the first lady appeared for a breakfast with the heavily Republican Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce later that morning—dressed in a light pink wool Chanel suit with navy blue trim, a matching pill box hat, and white gloves—she did not disappoint. "Two years ago, I introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man who had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris," Kennedy said to the delight of the audience, his pride in his wife palpable. "I am getting somewhat the same sensation as I travel through Texas. Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear." Reporters surveying those who had come out to see President and Mrs. Kennedy throughout the state would find that at least half, women and men alike, had come to see her. It was to be a busy day for the Kennedys, as well as for Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson and Connally and his wife, Nellie, who acted as hosts, accompanying the first couple throughout their trip. After breakfast they would take a short hop to Dallas, where the Kennedys would travel by motorcade to the Trade Mart for a luncheon. Then it would be on to Austin for a major fundraising dinner arranged by Governor Connally before spending the night at the vice president's LBJ Ranch seventy miles away in the heart of Texas Hill Country. There was some trepidation about the first stop. Dallas was not known for its civility—at least to those considered liberals by local fringe Republicans. A month before Kennedy's visit, Adlai Stevenson had given an address at Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater and was accosted afterward by jeering anti-U.N. extremists. A woman hit him over the head with a placard that read "Down with the U.N." and a young man spat on him as he walked to his car—then, for good measure, spat on the cop who moved in to arrest him. "Dallas has been disgraced," the Dallas Morning News wrote in a page one editorial the following day. "There is no other way to view the storm-trooper actions of last night's frightening attack on Adlai Stevenson." Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson were met by similar invective three years earlier. Just prior to the election in 1960, they were besieged outside the Adolphus Hotel by protesters carrying signs that read "Lyndon Go Home," and "Let's Ground Lady Bird." As they crossed the street, they, too, were spat upon. On the day of his visit, the John Birch Society welcomed Kennedy with an ad in the Dallas Morning News accusing him and Bobby of being "soft on Communists, fellow-travelers and ultra-leftists." Kennedy ran across it as he examined the newspapers that morning. "We're heading into nut country today," he told his wife as they prepared for the day. "But, Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?" But the visit to Dallas looked promising before it even started; autumn rain clouds turned to boundless blue sky during the Kennedys' thirteen-minute flight to Love Field, where Air Force One touched down at 11:38 am. As they disembarked, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson awaited them along with a few thousand well-wishers pressed along the fence line beyond the tarmac. The Kennedys spent a few minutes greeting some of them, one of whom presented Jackie a bouquet of a dozen red roses, before they slipped into the plush back seat of the presidential limousine—a 1961 Lincoln Continental, midnight blue gleaming in the North Texas sunshine—that would carry them and John and Nellie Connally to the Trade Mart. The fortuitous change in weather prompted Kennedy to order that the limousine's clear plastic bubble top be removed and its bulletproof windows rolled down. A hundred and fifty thousand people lined up along the ten-mile motorcade route, swelling to as much as twenty or thirty deep, as the car neared downtown, "absorbed," as one Texas reporter wrote, "in the power and glory of the moment; in this their touch with the fabulous." The first couple glided before them, smiling and waving as they passed, enjoying it all. The crowd was a snapshot of America in its time, mostly white with pockets of black and brown; housewives and young working women in office garb; men in business suits, others in open collars and hard hats; handfuls of students; small children on the shoulders of their fathers, or holding the hands of their mothers with one hand as they held tiny American flags in the other. As the car approached, cheers rose and patches of confetti rained from buildings. "You can't say that Dallas isn't friendly to you today," Nellie Connally said to the president at 12:30 p.m. as the car rounded the curve of Main Street to move toward the highway overpass. Then came the crackle of gunfire. Three shots in quick succession echoed from the dull red-brick Texas School Book Depository Building across Dealey Plaza. The president was propelled forward by a bullet that hit above his right shoulder, passing through his lower neck, his balled-up fists rushing reflexively toward the wound. He sprung back upright before he was thrust forward again by another shot to the back of his head, which fell to Jackie Kennedy's lap as his body collapsed. "Jack!" the first lady cried out, "Oh, no! No!" Fear and disorder reigned in an instant. Horrified onlookers watched the car race off to Parkland Hospital, just over three miles away. It arrived at 12:35. Kennedy was stripped of his jacket, shirt and t-shirt and rushed into Trauma Room One. Malcolm Perry, the 34-year-old doctor on duty, was summoned from lunch in the hospital's main dining room with an emergency page, arriving in short order. Kennedy wasn't breathing. Blood from the gunshot wounds on the back of his head and neck fell to the floor. Perry ordered a nurse to get three of the other Parkland doctors right away. He gave Kennedy a tracheotomy, then a blood transfusion. Doctors and nurses burst in and out of the small, gray tile room. The hospital's chief neurosurgeon in residency, William Kemp Clark, entered. Before aiding the other doctors, he approached the first lady, who stood silently to the side, her husband's blood caked on her pink skirt. "Would you like to leave, ma'am?" he asked her gently. "We can make you more comfortable outside." "No," she said. Motionless, she remained by his side to the last, her eyes never leaving his. She didn't cry as the doctors fought to save his life, forcefully pumping his chest to bring breath back into his limp body. She didn't cry as they stopped after ten minutes and pulled a white sheet over his head at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time, half an hour after the shots were fired, nor when a 70-year-old priest was brought in to give the patient his last rites, rubbing holy oil in the shape of a cross on his forehead. She held her emotions at bay as she stood placidly before him for the last time and took his wedding ring from his finger, replacing it with hers and whispering into his ear words long left to eternity. Reports soon went out on the news wires: John Fitzgerald Kennedy was dead. Left unsaid were the words the thirty-fifth president had planned to use to conclude the speech he was to give in Austin that same evening: Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause—unified in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future—and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance. From "Incomparable Grace." 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