McEnergy-Ogle has big lead in early returns for Vancouver mayor
Voters whittle down candidates for city council races
Published: August 3, 2021, 10:15pm
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2 Photos Diana H. Perez and David Gellatly were leading in vote totals in the primary for Vancouver City Council, Position 3, on election night. Photo Gallery
Vancouver voters whittled down the hopefuls for mayor and city council Tuesday night, selecting opposing candidates that will pose clear ideological contrasts in November’s general election.
In the three-person mayor’s race, incumbent Anne McEnerny-Ogle sailed through with 68.93 percent of the vote. Challenger Earl Bowerman, formerly the chair of the Clark County Republican Party, will likely join her on the general election ballot with 18.2 percent of the vote.
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The mayor of Vancouver isn’t a partisan position. But one candidate in the running is putting his own partisan affiliation front and center, to the point where it’s the first sentence on the homepage of his campaign website.
“I am the Republican candidate running for the office of Mayor for the City of Vancouver,” Doug Coop declares.
In Washington state, city and town-wide races are expressly nonpartisan, so Coop’s party affiliation won’t appear next to his name on the Aug. 3 ballot regardless. I shot him an email Thursday asking about his reasoning for using a party label for an election that won’t distinguish between R’s, D’s or anything in between.