Last weekend, three-quarters of the Stranger news team ventured into the blackberry-choked wilds of Northeast Seattle (furthest Bryant, to be precise) to attend a fundraiser for King County Council member Dow Constantine. Over tofu skewers and shots from a bottle of bourbon that would set us back, collectively, a full week’s salary, Eli Sanders, Josh Feit and I mingled with fundraisers, politicians and their flacks and gabbed about the upcoming city elections. Among those present: City Council member Nick Licata, Jan Drago opponent Dwight Pelz, exceedingly tall Greg Nickels fund-raiser Colby Underwood, and Port Commission candidate Jack Jolley, who many observers are calling the first credible challenger to entrenched 20-year incumbent Patricia Davis.

Yeah, I know: Sexy.

Anyway, our host, political consultant Christian Sinderman, was kind enough to send along the following report:

“If I could write about the event in the stranger, I would write that a near critical mass of stranger auteurs were seen mingling in the leafy “suburbs” of northeast seattle Saturday night, rubbing elbows with earnest enviros and other non-cool, rarely-seen-at-the-Comet types. Capitol Hill could have burned, and no one would have been there to write about it.”