The campaign video features Chase Cross, who identifies on Twitter as a “socialist sicario interested in city politics: plays the role of a person “did everything I was supposed to, and I still couldn’t stay in my home.”
Melissa Taylor, a far-left candidate running for the Washington State Legislature, released a campaign video late last week portraying a known Antifa activist, socialist, and Democrat operative as the poster boy for Seattle’s housing affordability issues.
The campaign video features Chase Cross, who identifies on Twitter as a "socialist sicario interested in city politics." He plays the role of a person who "did everything I was supposed to, and I still couldn’t stay in my home."
https://rumble.com/embed/v19t25f/?pub=2n05b
I’ve knocked on thousands of doors across our district, and everyone I’ve talked to is facing the pain of our broken housing market. I’m running to ensure everyone can afford to live here.
Chase is a resident in our district who has struggled to keep his home. This is his story: pic.twitter.com/bUTkE9MMLF
— Melissa WP Taylor (@MelissaWPTaylor)
In a video taken by The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt, Cross and Antifa were seen cursing and hurling racial insults at conservative African Americans and immigrants on a weekday during business hours. When asked about the behavior, Cross said had no regrets and doubled down on it.
In another video, Cross is seen embracing Jamal Williams, a known Antifa leader, agitator, and extremist, while Williams is energizing his masked Antifa protestors approaching a police line.
In October, Williams was arrested for hate crimes and criminal harassment after he allegedly assaulted two Jews in Seattle, one of which was a Rabbi. According to court documents, Williams "maliciously and intentionally" followed, threatened to kill, and assaulted the men in multiple attacks in October because of their religion.
Cross also lamented the clearing of the deadly Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and proudly photographed himself participating in the occupation of six blocks of Seattle.
Cross was caught on video screaming "I hope you die in a fire!" to Jewish members of a right wing group. In that video, Cross appears to be wearing the same suit he's wearing in Taylor’s campaign video, while lamenting "guys in suits who come in, the building sells, your rent is doubled overnight."
After several of the incidents were widely exposed on social media, Cross was no longer listed as the Vice Chair of the 37th District Democrats or a member of the leadership for the King County Young Democrats (KCYD).
Taylor is endorsed by many radical politicians and organization in Washington, including Rep. Rebecca Saldana who donated, endorsed, and publicly spoke on behalf of Ubax Gardheere, former candidate for the King County Council who was arrested for threatening to blow up a bus full of middle school students.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: King County Council candidate @Ubaaxiina @ElectUbax got on a school bus and threatened to blow it up and called kids cowards who fled
Here is who endorsed her knowing this: @VarishaMK @CMTammyMorales @UrbanistOrg @SEIU6 Rebecca Saldana Mike O'Brien
Seattle City Council Member Tammy Morales also backed Taylor and Gardheere and previously defended looting during the riots that rocked the city in 2020.
ICYMI: "It does make me wonder why looting bothers people so much more than knowing that... black people are being killed around the country."
Seattle City Councilwoman Tammy Morales says she doesn't want to be "told to be civil." pic.twitter.com/eHIACGx6PK
— MRCTV (@mrctv)
Cross's claim "I did everything I was supposed to, and I still couldn’t stay in my home," appears to be the new talking point of Antifa activists during campaigns.
Washington state congressional candidate Rebecca Parson, who was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, suggested in a campaign ad that ran in May that homeless people living in the US should break into and live in empty houses to get Congress to pass housing legislation.
You feel it. I feel it. We're on the edge of collapse.
Wall St is buying up entire neighborhoods, rent & home prices are soaring, working people can't afford homes.
It's time to occupy empty homes nationwide. It's time for #HousingForAll. RT & join us: https://t.co/YvQvqUR2Q4 pic.twitter.com/RYIZVMTaEE
— Rebecca Parson for Congress, WA-06 (@RebeccaforWA)
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Parson, running as a Democrat to represent Washington's 6th Congressional District, said in the video ad that while sleeping in her car, she "did what she was supposed to" to fight for change, which included attending protests, writing letters, and making phone calls. It failed to accomplish anything, she said.