West Seattle City Council candidate chooses his contest

When Michael Taylor-Judd told the 34th District Democrats at their West Seattle meeting last week that he had an online-donation button on his in-progress website, he was also quietly declaring he’d chosen which race he was in: Position 1 (it’s on the webpage, and he confirmed it to WSB). Today the incumbent, Councilmember Jean Godden, also is making a point of saying she’s definitely running again – note this tweet from a few hours ago. It’s at least a five-candidate race so far, since King County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Maurice Classen jumped in last week, and while he’s not listed on the city website as having filed yet, Bobby Forch and David Schraer are shown in the Position 1 race along with Taylor-Judd and Godden. Five of the council’s nine positions are on the ballot this fall – besides this one, incumbent Councilmembers Tim Burgess, Sally Clark, Bruce Harrell, and Tom Rasmussen of West Seattle all are up, and the city website shows all have filed to say they’re campaigning.

Shannon February 14, 2011 (9:41 pm)

Maurice Classen is a law school classmate of mine, and an all around fantastic guy. I encourage anyone who is interested in this race to check out his website, http://www.classenforseattle.com and watch his annoucement video to see what he is about.

redblack February 15, 2011 (8:02 am)

i’d like to hear more about michael taylor, so hopefully he gets that web page running soon. right now it’s just a campaign donation thingy, but doesn’t give me any city policy position information.
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for example, i want to hear – from all candidates – about light rail, street cars, AWV/tunnel, city-wide broadband, etc.

Michael Taylor-Judd February 15, 2011 (4:41 pm)

Well, redblack, I’ll get there soon enough. I wish I could say that fundraising took a back seat to talking with folks about issues in a city council campaign, but that’s unfortunately not the case in Seattle’s rather expensive campaigns.
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Quickly, I can tell you that I have been a very public and vocal transit advocate around the City for about 10 years, dating all the way back to the monorail campaigns.
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Stay tuned for more, or come on out to the 34th District Democrats meetings since I’m almost always present there and we can chat. :-)

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