21 Replies to "PRIMARY ELECTION 2017: 2nd round of results out, no change in who's leading Seattle citywide races"

• West Seattle Hipster August 2, 2017 (4:54 pm)

  I think Durkan is a shoo-in, hopefully she is not another Murray.

  Feeling blessed that Prop 1 is failing, perhaps common sense is starting to make a comeback in Seattle (one can dream).

  • GOP in WS August 2, 2017 (6:10 pm)

    Tax fatigue has finally set in. 

    • WSEd August 2, 2017 (7:38 pm)

      GOP in WS.  I think I have found a unicorn.

• West Seattle Resident August 2, 2017 (7:13 pm)

  Durkan is Ed Murray 2.0, why would anyone in their right mind vote for that?

  • Seattlite August 2, 2017 (9:32 pm)

     WSResident — I totally agree with you.  Seattle needs a moderate who will work for the voters, not for special interests, developers.  Murray is now facing  the following : “…Seattle Mayor Caught Colluding To Squash Damaging Minimum Wage Report — A new report by the Washington Free Beacon blows the lid off of the already highly suspect story of the City of Seattle’s two conflicting minimum wage reports. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, WFB had a chance to review emails between Seattle’s Democratic Mayor Ed Murray, a big wig union PR firm, and the supposedly “unbiased” research team at University of California, Berkeley headed up by Michael Reich. The Free Beacon found egregious collusion between the three to squash clear evidence that the city’s minimum wage policy was hurting workers….”  DailyWire.com

    • CAM August 3, 2017 (1:15 am)

      The Washington Free Beacon isn’t really a good source for “unbiased” reporting or interpretation of facts. They buy information from GOP opposition research firms and openly advertise themselves as a conservative website. 

      • Seattlite August 3, 2017 (7:36 am)

        Do you have any facts that counter Free Beacon’s article on Murray?

• Double Dub Resident August 2, 2017 (7:33 pm)

  The fact that Moon is in 2nd place just shows another level of stupidity in Seattle. She had to be one of the most incompetent, ill informed and ignorant candidates in the debates. 

  • Seavieu August 2, 2017 (9:27 pm)

    Can you be more specific?

    • Double Dub Resident August 3, 2017 (7:01 am)

      Her performance in debate, where even she admitted not knowing some of the issues being presented. Her unwillingness to be interviewed by media outlets who might not share her views. But hey, maybe we can get another giant artsy eraser if she’s elected

      • WSB August 3, 2017 (7:27 am)

        You must be confusing Moon with another candidate. She’s done many interviews. Including an unpublished (yet – I had hopes at one time of interviewing all the candidates pre-primary, and that proved to be impossible without help, so I held it for potential pre-general coverage) interview with us, which her campaign sought out. The only thing she was unfamiliar with at the time of our conversation was the status of potential White Center annexation (which I asked the 14 candidates, including her, that participated in the forum we moderated at Summer Fest, and the prevailing answer was “if the voters approve it”), which will likely be up to the new mayor whether or not to pursue – TR

        • Double Dub Resident August 4, 2017 (6:41 pm)

          I said interviews with people /media who didn’t share her point of views. Also your questions are not what I was referring to, unless it was you on TV asking them, then I’m mistaken

  • The King August 3, 2017 (8:16 am)

    DoubleDub….I would hit the like button for your comment if the feature was available. 

• Seattlite August 2, 2017 (8:01 pm)

  WSB — Are there stats on how many registered King County voters actually vote in the mayoral primary and final election? 

  • WSB August 2, 2017 (8:10 pm)

    There will be when all the counting is done (just under two weeks). Otherwise, it’s just the daily stats.

• Dave August 2, 2017 (10:25 pm)

  Actually was for the sales tax increase. Thought it might be time to balance our interests to include something that feeds the artistic soul. Music, art and access feeds the soul, struggled with the regressive nature of the tax

  as far as the mayor candidates. The whole lot of them are pretty much the same and these two will continue the progressive agenda that continues the demise of our city 

  im so tired of the developers crooked politicians who are usually a bait and switch, and  a hand out mentality that is creating a group of middle class homeowners who will,either need to move from Seattle or become the newest homeless population 

  money thrown at a problem is not always the answer and I’m still waiting for the metrics that demonstrate that the interventions and the expensive managers hired have made an ounce of difference

  • Jort Sandwich August 2, 2017 (11:31 pm)

    The “demise” of our city?

    Our city is in the midst of one of the most vibrant, flourishing economic periods in its history. It is one of the most robust economies in the country, and likely the world. 

    “Hand out mentality?” “Demise?”  I think one only look at the value of your own land to see a “metric” that demonstrates the difference between living in Seattle and, say, Billings, Montana. I dare say there might even be more than a few “ounces” of difference.

    
    

    However, if you think that the city is a deplorable hellscape of destruction and ruin just because it has a lot of liberal people and — gasp — successful liberal policies, well, maybe this isn’t the city for you.

    • Double Dub Resident August 3, 2017 (7:09 am)

      Successful liberal policies? LMBO!!! Go look under the West Seattle Bridge and see how successful those policies are. We have the highest property crime in the nation last I checked. We’re spending 10’s of millions of dollars on less than 1% of the population with nothing to show for it. And then come up with “successful liberal ideas” of opening up our parks and some sidewalks to the homeless and giving people safe spaces to shoot /snort/smoke their Heroin, all the while demonizing the police and making criminals victims

• TJ August 3, 2017 (7:00 am)

  Liberal is fine. The politicians here 25 years ago were liberal. But “progressive” liberals seem to be like “crusader lawyers” who never have a finish line on a issue, and thats what we have here. They use catchy keywords to push their agenda down our throats without listening to us (“help the vulnerable” for any tax they propose, “safety” for reducing our car lanes and road diets, “affordability & livability” for HALA) and who think they know how to spend my money better than me by continually wanting more. 

• artsea August 3, 2017 (7:30 am)

  Looks like the winner will be…..ta-da……the candidate who has the most money to spend on advertising themselves.  I’ve been saving the flyers and mailings I’ve received in the mail and find that I’ve received 6 pieces from Jenny Durkan, 2 from Sarah Nelson, and 1 from Jessyn Farrell.  And, oh yes….4 for Prop. 1.    Just saying……

• Joe H. August 8, 2017 (8:57 pm)

   I enjoy and support opera, but do not think the public should pay to bail out the Seattle Opera’s over-ambitious plans.  I can only afford to sit in the balcony where I look down on a lot of gray or bald heads.  This is not entertainment for today’s masses, whatever it may have been in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Should the public pay for polo ponies, let alone golf courses, however much the people of influence and taste believe the world would be a better place if it were ruled by high-minded folks who could tutor the voters to enjoy the favorite pastimes of their rulers?   The public library welcomes all citizens and the computers and bathroom stalls are continuously occupied by our unwashed homeless.  We SHOULD wash and feed the homeless, and we should provide opportunities for improvement of their minds and bodies, but we should not disguise these efforts as education and culture  and use regressive taxation to prop up those pastimes.   

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