Wright seeks GC city council seat

Tracy Wright says she decided to run for city council in Grand Coulee after the city violated her and her partner's Fourth Amendment rights.

She and her partner, Cameron Whitney, who is running for mayor, had a disagreement with the city over their use of a recreational vehicle parked in their backyard with a lake view, which was advertised on a short-term stay website.

"Since we are members of this community, we decided to try to change things within instead of the tried and true method of suing the city," she said in an email to The Star sent through Whitney. "Tried and true as us taxpayers are still paying for past lawsuits due to ineffective management."

Wright says the current demographic makeup of the council doesn't reflect the city.

"We need younger people to join the council, and we need "can do" people, not the "can't do" of the current administration," she says. "We aim high and we effectively use our resources to get there. A common goal must be visible and reachable."

One such goal might be "to get the community to work together by painting their businesses and properties bright colors to make our town a popular tourism stop so our community can thrive and succeed on tourist dollars," she says. "Let's put the color in Colorama."

Wright thinks she has the skills to get people to work together, being an "efficiency expert" who has had "extensive training on team management and can arrange community meetings which effectively use the time and resources of our community and council."

Without listing specific employers, Wright says she has worked as a computer programmer who updated computers that measure radiation levels. She worked with "the military industrial complex "Patriot Missile" program during Desert Storm as the Shop Floor Planner," she says, in avionics and in telecommunications as an "inventory manager/computer analyst and programmer." She also says she "played an analyst position in many fortune 500 companies."

Wright says she wants to "be this communities advocate. I will advocate for Justice for all. I will advocate for a clean safe place where friends and family want to visit and stay."

Asked about where she moved here from or any personal details, she responded: "I am Tracy from the hood and my mission is to make Grand Coulee Good."