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Lynn Segal\n<\/p>\nAnyone who regularly follows Boulder City Council meetings probably knows Lynn Segal.
\nLynn Segal\n<\/p>\n
The 73-year-old Boulder resident is a regular at the meetings \u2014 whether it be physically or virtually when the city bars her from attending them in person for repeated disruptions. When she\u2019s not barred, Segal is often seen at the meetings and at other public events around towns, with her bike and wearing Palestinian flags or pins or shirts. And she has disrupted her fair share of meetings over the city\u2019s investment policies and Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
But Segal says she\u2019s running because of her love for the people of Boulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone needs to work together, and I want to work together, and I want a part at the table,\u201d Segal said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be cranky, but I have to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Segal said she first lived in Boulder in 1959, left and came back in 1987 and has been here since. She\u2019s lived in California and in the Pacific Northwest. She earned a bachelor\u2019s of science from Seattle University, according to her LinkedIn, and worked as an ultrasonographer in Colorado for decades before retiring in 2015. Segal walked alongside Boulder Run for Their Lives and witnessed the Pearl Street Mall antisemitic firebombing attack. She\u2019s a self-proclaimed prohibitionist.<\/p>\n
Segal said her campaign is, at its core, anti-war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sick of war, and I\u2019m sick that we can\u2019t have coffee for a reasonable price in this country, that people can\u2019t get a place to live, that we have this homeless problem,\u201d Segal said.<\/p>\n
Addressing that would mean revisiting the city\u2019s investment policies and enforcing the city\u2019s social responsibility policy, Segal said. She and other protesters have taken issue with the city\u2019s investments in Microsoft and Caterpillar, two companies that a United Nations report accused of being complicit in Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza. Those actions have led to the deaths of more than 74,000 Palestinians<\/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and human rights organizations and some scholars now call Israel\u2019s actions a genocide.<\/p>\n That has also been core to her activism, which has drawn accusations of antisemitism from some in Boulder\u2019s Jewish community. She was waving a Palestinian flag during a vigil for the victims of the firebombing attack.<\/p>\n Some of her activism has drawn condemnation and stark criticism from Boulder residents, Jewish or not. Segal is Jewish and said that means she can\u2019t be antisemitic. She also said that she loves Israel but wants the nation to be held accountable.<\/p>\n Segal is also against more development, such as the city potentially opening up the Area III Planning Reserve for housing, and she has been a vocal critic of the Sundance Film Festival moving here. She also believes that the University of Colorado Boulder has too large of an influence in the city. Specifically, she criticized potential CU developments of multi-story student housing buildings.<\/p>\n \u201cMy dad came here from New York to get away from New York,\u201d said Segal, who later added: \u201cEnough is enough, CU has gone beyond their bounds.\u201d<\/p>\n On other issues, Segal is against the city\u2019s use of Flock Safety and Automated License Plate Readers and said she wants to fire Boulder Chief of Police Stephen Redfearn. She\u2019s also against increasing funding for the police department and against the possibility of $170 million going to a new public safety building and police headquarters. Segal is also against the proposed $400 million bond to fund that and other public buildings that the city says are failing.\n<\/p>\n Segal is one of 13 candidates running for Boulder City Council.\n<\/p>\n Benita Duran<\/a>, Sam Fuqua<\/a>, Lee Gilbert<\/a>, Jill Grano<\/a>, Rachel Rose Isaacson<\/a>, Ryan Jamieson,<\/a> Tina Marquis (incumbent)<\/a>, David Martus<\/a>, Jamillah Richmond<\/a>, Scott Rendleman<\/a>, Ryan Schuchard (incumbent)<\/a>\u00a0and Mayor Pro Tem Tara Winer (incumbent)<\/a> are also running.\n<\/p>\n Election Day is Nov. 3.\n<\/p>\n