Joe Nguyen challenging Dow Constantine for King County executive
Nguyen, a state senator from West Seattle, says Washington s most populous county needs a change in leadership.
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King County Executive Dow Constantine hasn’t had a big election fight since he first won the county’s top job 12 years ago.
That may be about to change. On Tuesday, state Sen. Joe Nguyen, D-West Seattle, announced he is challenging Constantine for the county’s top leadership position.
Nguyen, 37, won election to the state Senate three years ago in a crowded primary for an open seat. In the general election, Nguyen defeated a better-funded candidate, Shannon Braddock, who happens to be Constantine’s deputy chief of staff. At the time, Braddock was in another high-ranking job in Constantine’s office.
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by Rich Smith • Mar 6, 2021 at 6:08 pm
About goddamn time. Lester Black
After nine long years of effort and a long debate Saturday afternoon, the Washington state Senate narrowly passed a proposal to tax capital gains on a 25-24 vote.
Democrats who joined Republicans in voting against the measure predictably included Sens. Mark Mullet, Steve Hobbs, Annette Cleveland, and Tim Sheldon.
The bill will now head back to the House for approval, which it will likely receive given that chamber s support for the tax in the past. Governor Jay Inslee included a version of capital gains tax legislation in his budget proposal this year and in previous years, so he won t be a roadblock either.
Hispanic or
Latino voters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau Adams, Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Walla Walla and Yakima counties.
According to a
consent decree in a lawsuit brought under the federal
Voting Rights Act in Yakima County, the Washington Secretary of State matches Yakima voter last names to a “Spanish surname” list provided by the U.S. Justice Department in 2004. InvestigateWest also used this list to analyze signature rejections.
Latinos make up 37% of the total population in these eight counties, and 21% of the voting population. White, non-Hispanic voters make up most of the remaining voting population in these counties. While the eight counties account for 10% of the statewide voting population, they account for 29% of the Latino voting population in Washington.