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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

In Other Washington Counties, Seattle’s Influence Shows

posted by on November 7 at 13:31 PM

About a month back, I wrote this story about a Seattle organization called The Washington Bus that was going to Bellingham and knocking on doors for a progressive county council candidate up there named Ken Mann. They’ve also been driving down to Tacoma and doing the same for a candidate there named Marilyn Strickland. Today, they got to see where their efforts got them.

In Tacoma, Strickland landed a comfortable victory of 60.75% over her opponent for the city council position, David Curry. But in Bellingham, Mann is only winning by 27 votes right now, with 50.17% of the vote. That means that any votes that the Washington Bus garnered could be helping Mann beat his opponent, incumbent Sam Crawford. It’s possible that the majority will hold for Mann, but as they continue to count votes, things could swing either way. Only 24% of Whatcom County’s vote is counted right now, but a small margin was expected—elections are regularly decided up there by less than 100 votes.

The Tacoma race is less interesting—both candidates for the position were progressive [The Tacoma Tribune is dumb and I will never read it again, Curry is not progressive, I have been corrected by commenters], and Strickland came out of the primary with a ton of money and a resounding majority. The Washington Bus probably didn’t need to supply as much help as they did.

Good luck to progressives up north—let’s hope the Washington Bus’ efforts were not in vain.

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Posted by I like to make shit up. | November 7, 2007 1:34 PM
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God, if I was a lesbian, I wouldn't want those moles all up in my shit. Gross.

Posted by Ari Spool | November 7, 2007 1:35 PM
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David Curry, Marilyn Strickland's opponent in the Tacoma council race, is NOT a progressive. For a graduate of Kirkland's fundamentalist Northwest University he's pretty moderate, but still...

Posted by amocat | November 7, 2007 1:42 PM
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Hey Ari-
David Curry down in Tacoma is not progressive. He had no progressive endorsements and he I think his brother runs a big evangelical church, which is where most of his volunteers come from.

He does do good charity work, but don't mistake that for progressive politics.

Posted by Not progressive | November 7, 2007 1:43 PM
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Posted by I like to make shit up. | November 7, 2007 1:45 PM
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Like i said, I haven't really been paying attention to the race. . .the Tacoma Tribune said the only difference was that Strickland was more for infrastructure. Stupid Tacoma Tribune. I'll change it.

Posted by Ari Spool | November 7, 2007 1:49 PM
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The Bus has some great staff working for them.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 7, 2007 2:49 PM
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Ari, if you're talking about the daily paper in Tacoma, it's the News Tribune.

If there's another publication in Tacoma calling itself the Tacoma Tribune, nevermind.

Posted by als | November 7, 2007 2:53 PM
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The News Tribune is only marginally to the left of Attila the Hun, so their idea of "progressive" basically means "would free the slaves and let womenfolks wear shoes."

Posted by Geni | November 7, 2007 4:39 PM
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I think the real Burgess escaped for a moment in the giddy of winning

blah blah blah was very rude, his conversion to hight law seems to be a bit thin

Posted by Marty | November 7, 2007 4:47 PM
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@9: They're also to the left of the Seattle Times -- by a fair bit. I guess that means Tribune

Posted by amocat | November 7, 2007 6:03 PM

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