This just in, from a disgruntled West Seattle neighbor who’s had one too many frustrating experiences dealing with city bureaucracy:

Dear Friends,

Given the pathetic options that we have available to us for mayor of the City of Seattle, I am nominating John Richards (John in the Morning on KEXP 90.3) as a write-in candidate for the position of Mayor of Seattle in the September 20th primary. For those of you who are not familiar with John Richards, please trust me on this- or you can check him out at the KEXP website www.kexp.org . He’s sort of like a Jon Stewart of the music world. If you are not familiar with Jon Stewart, well, again, please trust me on this. If you do know John Richards, I hope you agree that it would be fun to have John as a candidate for a bit. If so, please join me in trying to get at least 2000 votes for John Richards on September 20th. I realize some of you can’t vote for City of Seattle positions, but if you can please pass the word to any friends or family that live in Seattle, that would be great.

So, in a nutshell, PLEASE WRITE IN “JOHN RICHARDS” FOR CITY OF SEATTLE MAYOR, PRIMARY ELECTION, SEPTEMBER 20TH.

Thanks!!!