by Rich Smith • Aug 3, 2021 at 4:25 pm
So. Many. Mailers. Rich Smith
The people running for local office (and the deep-pocketed independent expenditures that support some of them) have spent the last couple weeks making their closing arguments to voters. They ve also ramped up spending to make sure voters hear those arguments as loudly as legally possible.
In a last-minute push to get out the vote and answer any lingering questions the electorate might have, over the weekend several campaigns donned personal protective equipment and hit the doors. Many of them discovered a theme: despite plenty of mailers in mailboxes and ads on television, a fair number of voters still had no idea who they planned to vote for.
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Twitter spats and smack talk â another week in Seattle politics
Downtown Seattle is front and center in the mayorâs race this week.
Seattle City Council President Lorena González tweeted about her refusal to answer a Downtown Seattle Association candidate questionnaire about how she would approach downtown s recovery.
âI declined to answer because our city cannot afford a mayor who believes that recovery should be focused exclusively on big corporations, González said.
And she wasn t the only one at the center of a political kerfuffle.
The question the DSA asked was pretty benign, bland even, with questions like: âPlease describe the cityâs role in helping downtown recover. What is your recovery plan for downtown, and how would you propose to implement it?â