Politics The Runup to Election Night
In the weeks leading up to tonight’s primary election, voters in the 43rd District were inundated with mailers for the six candidates vying to represent the district in the state legislature. Here are the mailers I’ve received in the last two weeks:
Knowing that candidates target mailers to the people they believe are their base, and knowing that I’m a single woman living alone on Capitol Hill, I can conclude from my selection of mailers (eight from Jamie Pedersen, three from Stephanie Pure) that Pure thinks I’m concerned about choice (accurate), and Pedersen thinks I’m gay (not so accurate). A friend who also lives in the district—a 43-year-old male resident of Roosevelt—got about a dozen mailers from middle-aged male candidate Jim Street (who didn’t send me a single piece of mail) and not a single piece from Pure.