When asked if wealthy people can truly call themselves “progressive,” former City Council candidate Alex Hudson stated her support by saying, “I would say that solidarity is not about what’s in your bank account, it’s about what’s in your heart. …We need to level up, we need to match our opponents and I think we have better ideas! I think we have more sound policies and…there’s more of us. And so we need the tools and resources to be able to build our movement, to sustain our movement beyond campaigns, and to communicate with voters. And that takes money. I think there’s a lot of people in Seattle who care about those things and share those values.”