Gael Tarleton

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Gael Tarleton is an Northwest Progressive Institute Advisory Councilmember and former Washington State Representative who worked in Russia in the 1990s and served as a senior defense intelligence analyst on Soviet strategic nuclear programs at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency from 1981-1990. She served on NPI's board from its inception through 2021. She also served the people of King County as a Seattle Port Commissioner from 2008 until 2013.

Posted inElections

Seattle voters: No on public financing, yes on Districts Now charter amendment

Gael Tarletonby Gael Tarleton

Seat­tle pol­i­tics has some­times been char­ac­ter­ized as a divide between “Seat­tle nice” and “less­er ver­sus more Seat­tle.” It’s just not that sim­ple any­more. Seat­tle has 410,000+ reg­is­tered vot­ers, and we seem to have elect­ed a new may­or tonight with less than 33% vot­er turnout thus far. Maybe we’ll hit 40% by Thurs­day, but by any […]

Posted inPolicy Topics, Public Planning

Let’s build a constructive future for our region in the Port of Seattle’s second century

Gael Tarletonby Gael Tarleton

Edi­tor’s Note: The fol­low­ing are the remarks that NPI’s Pres­i­dent, Gael Tar­leton, deliv­ered at the first reg­u­lar meet­ing of the Seat­tle Port Com­mis­sion for 2012, fol­low­ing her elec­tion as Pres­i­dent of the Com­mis­sion for the remain­der of the year.  Thank you, fel­low Com­mis­sion­ers, for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to serve this com­ing year as Pres­i­dent of the Port […]