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Friday, March 6, 2009

Politics Rumor Has It

Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM

That King County Council member Dow Constantine has raised around $50,000 since announcing his bid for county executive last month. Although new fundraising numbers aren't out yet, Constantine's opponent, county council member Larry Phillips, reporting raising a little under $9,000 in all of January.

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Hubba Hubba vs. Pancake Head

Posted by @ on March 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Dow is a much better choice. i wonder why no one else has jumped in.

Posted by SeMe on March 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM

Dow is advertising on Facebook.

Posted by Chris on March 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM

Somebody is polling voters on this race already.

Either that Hunter guy or Dow or Larry.

I'll find out at the groundbreaking at Husky Stadium today.

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Why not provide the source of your rumor, instead of potentially allowing yourself to be used by campaign operatives?

Posted by Trevor on March 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM

@2 - There is a ton of energy behind Dow. With the type of money he is raising, other folks even thinking about running are probably being scared off.

Posted by Doug on March 6, 2009 at 1:02 PM

Friend Dow on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/bbrv6c
or fan his page at http://tinyurl.com/b8nuxq

Posted by supportDOW on March 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM

Really Erica, would it be that hard to look at what Phillips raised in 2007? He knew full well then that he was going to run for Exec back then. Here, I'll do the work for you: he raised close to $280K and barely spent any of it. All he has to do is get permission to transfer it & that's a hell of a lot more than $9K.

Posted by spants on March 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM

Shh, @8, it's a secret.

Dang, they found out ...

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM

If she knew how to read a PDC report, she'd already know that...

Posted by politically astute on March 6, 2009 at 9:33 PM

@8: Phillips has been transfering that money for months--it represents most of what he's "raised" for Exec to date. But, with Constantine in the race, Larry's having a harder and harder time getting people to approve the transfers.

This race is getting good.

Posted by Alki on March 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM