Episode 60: Courtney Love, candidate for Tacoma City Council

In Citizen Tacoma’s continuing series of 2019 candidate interviews, we bring you a conversation with Courtney Love.
No, not the Courtney Love who’s a fixture of 90’s alternative rock and so, so many supermarket tabloids.
This is Tacoma’s Courtney Love. She’s challenging City Council Member Conor McCarthy in the race for the Position 7 at-large seat, and she’s a breed of candidate Tacoma has rarely, if ever, seen before.
Love is carving out a unapologetically progressive political profile more in line with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders or Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant than anyone currently holding office in Pierce County.
KNKX Public Radio reporter Will James guests hosts. He talked with Love about her route from activist to candidate, her weird calmness during the closest of primary elections (a 12-vote lead secured her a spot in the general election), and what it says about this moment in Tacoma history that a candidate like her has made it this far.