There’s no love lost between Gerry Pollet and Scott White, two Democrats running for state House from North Seattle’s 46th District. Pollet’s supporters have repeatedly sued White for alleged ethics violations, and the candidate himself has all but accused White of being a corporate shill. So how they found themselves waving signs on the exact same street corner—North 80th Street and Lake City Way—is anybody’s guess. “I was here first, by a little bit,” White told the SECB. Nuh-uh, Pollet responded. “We arrived at the exact same moment.” Pollet’s sign included an attached, secondary sign, which read, “Ethics and Integrity”; White’s own secondary sign read simply, “I’m Scott.”

Neither man, unsurprisingly, would budge from his position. Instead, they stood on the freezing corner, waving wildly at every passerby who honked. When the SECB asked him how he could tell which candidate voters were honking for, Pollet responded, “We’ve been out here so long, people just honk for participation.” As we talked, his 12-year-old son hiked up and down the block, waving at cars. Asked whether he’d pulled his son out of school for the election, Pollet was vague. “Let’s just say it was Democracy Day at Eckstein Middle School,” he said.