If you’re registered to vote, your ballot should have arrived by now – and needs to be postmarked by August 16th, or placed in a drop box by then. Still no drop box in West Seattle or White Center – here’s where you WILL find them. Meanwhile, we have one last segment of video to share from last Thursday night’s West Seattle Candidates’ Forum at South Seattle Community College – City Council candidates:

On stage were, from left, Pos. 1 candidate Michael Taylor-Judd (of West Seattle), Pos. 1 candidate Bobby Forch, moderator Mike Hickey (from SSCC), Pos. 1 candidate Maurice Classen, Pos. 9 candidates Sally Clark (incumbent) and Dian Ferguson. (Pos. 1 incumbent Jean Godden was on hand for the ice-cream social part of the program earlier, but left before the onstage Q/A; Pos. 9 candidate Fathi Karshie was not present at all.) Transportation and transit were a big topic in the West Seattle-specific questioning, as you’ll see/hear in our video. Positions 1 and 9 are the only ones with more than 2 candidates, so those are the only City Council races you’ll see on the primary ballot. (Our previous two WS Candidates’ Forum reports are here [School Board Position 6] and here [County Council District 8].)

Tonight’s final note: The West Seattle Democratic Women have announced their endorsements for the primary. Read on to see the list, as shared by WSDW chair Karen Chilcutt:

For 2011, The WEST SEATTLE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN (following [July 28] and the
previous month’s meeting) endorse the following:

K.C. Councilman (Position No. 8) JOE MC DERMOTT,
Port of Seattle Commissioner (Position No. 2) GAEL TARLETON,
Seattle City Council’s
(Position No. 1) JEAN GODDEN,
(Position No. 3), BRUCE HARRELL,
(Position No. 5) TOM RASMUSSEN,
(Position No. 7) TIM BURGESS,
(Position No. 9), SALLY CLARK and

Seattle School Director District (No 6) STEVE SUNDQUIST,

while APPROVING both the

KC PROPOSITION NO 1 “Veterans and Human Services Levy” and

CITY OF SEATTLE’S REFERENDUM NO 1 “Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement
agreements referendum measure”.