I\u2019m a white, middle-aged mother of two, and I\u2019m voting for Hira Bhullar for Kent City Council Position 1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s why: I respect people who put others first, and I believe in the American Dream. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I\u2019ve known Hira personally for two years. We both work at Starbucks headquarters in IT and share a vanpool to work five days a week. We talk a lot in the van. Let me share what I\u2019ve learned about Hira during these drives:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He was born in India, but has lived in this country longer than he hasn\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He is a naturalized citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s a software developer at Starbucks. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s lived in Kent for almost a decade. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s married and has two kids in Kent public schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 His son loves sports and plays baseball in a Kent league. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 His daughter loves music and all the usual tween things you\u2019d expect from a middle-school girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Hira loves football and matches his turban to Seahawks colors during the season \u2013 and it\u2019s not just for show, this guy knows football.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s funny and friendly and loves a good joke. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s new to politics and sees this seat as just another way to be of service to others. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 He\u2019s a good friend to all. I\u2019ve never heard him say a mean thing about another person \u2013 even in traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2013 Marli Larimer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m a white, middle-aged mother of two, and I\u2019m voting for Hira Bhullar for Kent City Council Position 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}