The Green Party of Washington supports Dusti Arab as our preferred candidate for Clark County Council, District 1. The primary election is on August 4, 2026.
Dusti’s campaign priorities, from her candidate questionnaire:
Ecological Wisdom
When I was in college, I studied environmental economics, and I remember being so frustrated by the way that they approached “conservation.” Putting a dollar value on trees and water shouldn’t be the way we justify keeping them or fighting for them.
Today, I’m an urban farmer and a big believer in the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer.
We have so much to learn, and we won’t even get the chance to do that if it’s all gone before we have the chance to study it deeply. But really, how much studying does it take to know how much better we feel when we walk outside and see trees? I don’t need things to be quantifiable to know they need protecting.
Grassroots Democracy
I don’t buy “the public had a chance to comment” when the information is unreadable, the timeline is tight, and the decision is already basically made. My instinct is to translate and make it legible: what’s being proposed, who it benefits, who eats the cost, and what the actual decision point is. I’m in politics because I want more people to be able to track what’s happening and intervene before it’s locked.
Community-Based Economics
I build local capacity on purpose. Hearth & Hollow exists because I want more people to grow food, share it locally, and rely less on expensive, inflexible systems. The same principle applies to housing and basic needs: I care about practical infrastructure that keeps people here, and I’m skeptical of “economic development” that reads as extraction with a ribbon cutting.
Website: https://www.dustiforclarkcounty.com/
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