UpdatedWed, May 26, 2021 at 4:55 pm PT
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More than 640 candidates are seeking office across King County in 2021, beating the record set four years ago. (Shutterstock/Anna Hoychuk)
RENTON, WA The 2021 election season is already one for the record books in King County, with 646 having filed for public office this year, officials announced Wednesday. According to King County Elections, this year beats the record set in 2017, when 634 candidates filed to run. Officials said close to 95 percent of this year s candidates filed online, rather than in person. Our democracy works best when all voices are heard and when our voters have options, said Julie Wise, director of King County Elections. It s fantastic to see so many people stepping up to the plate for their community and being willing to serve in this unique and challenging way.
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State Sen. Joe Nguyen to run against Dow Constantine in King County Executive race
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State Sen. Joe Nguyen (D-White Center) Photo credit: Sen. Joe Nguyen s Facebook page
WHITE CENTER, Wash. - Three-term incumbent King County Executive Dow Constantine has a serious challenger to his re-election bid this year: State Sen. Joe Nguyen is running for the county s top job.
Nguyen, a West Seattle Democrat, made the announcement in a video release Tuesday. Politics should be about people, not careers, and it’s increasingly clear that governments run by transactional politicians do not serve communities, Nguyen said in a news release. Decisions from the top down are easy but they do not solve real and systemic problems. Engaging communities, being mindful of the people you serve, adjusting systems and behaviors to accommodate the people you work for that’s good governing.
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State senator wants to end police stops for minor offenses Graham Johnson
A state senator wants to prevent police officers from pulling over drivers for minor offenses like expired tabs.
The idea is to limit interactions that can escalate to fatal shootings.
“There is a term, ‘Driving while Black,’ that is used in the Black community because of these types of stops,” said Sen. Joe Nguyen (D-White Center).
Nguyen is finalizing a bill to prevent officers from stopping drivers for expired tags, broken taillights, windows with too much tint or something dangling from a rearview mirror.
They’re called pretext stops. And last year, Virginia banned them.