First-timer Woo’s excellent showing against moneyed incumbent Morales gives liberals hope for retiring another “progressive” from the Council. Traditionally, an incumbent polling less than 50% in the primary gets rated as in trouble. Let’s hope Woo improves on her great start.

It looks like the D2 and D4 races are going to the ones to watch in November. Those are both very close and can go either way. Lost in the shuffle of this as well is the looming possibility the new council will have to select someone to fill Mosqueda's at large position should she win her race. Really 8 of the 9 positions are up for grabs if you think of it that way.

The obvious take-away is that incumbency means a lot. We'll see how it goes down in November, but my guess is all incumbents hold on their seats, which has been the case since Sawant beat Conlin back in 2013 (and that was a rarity).

I'll shut the fuck up if ObeySumner wins. But if they advance, and then lose to Moore, I'll once again tell the current Stranger Editorial board that they are fucking idiots. This would be the third race in two elections where they unwillingly conspired with The Seattle Times to hand the race to a conservative. Maybe that is what they want. They don't want real progressives that get shit done like Thomas (who got us the $15 minimum wage) -- they want conservatives so they can whine about all the bad decisions the council makes.

Wait, the Times endorses in the Primary?

Are you sure?

Next thing you know, you'll tell me they print their paper too.

I used to look at the endorsements in the Seattle Times, The Stranger, and the "Progressive" (more like Dem establishment) Voters Guide.

I stopped looking at the Seattle Times completely after they endorsed Manka Dhingra's opponent in 2017 while acknowledging that Manka was the better candidate and giving the excuse that "gridlock is good" to keep the state senate in GOP hands. (Suffice it to say that their priorities are not my priorities.) I think they lost a lot of trust in my LD — and showed their true face — with that endorsement.

Another thing to note about Sawants past victories in D3 is that the map was redrawn, and a chunk of D3 (including the chunk I live in, and I was a Sawant voter) was moved into D2. Not sure if that will end up impacting the outcome, but that recall vote was close.

@3 Thomas did not get “us” $15 minimum wage. She led the fight for SEATAC to get that - which is still important but a necessary distinction.

If you want to look to who got US (as in Seattle) $15 minimum you can look no further than everyone’s favorite person to hate Sawant for that. Which also in the long run ended up influencing the minimum wage across the nation.

@8: SeaTac’s surprise passage of the $15/hour minimum wage in 2013 was the event which made passage of $15/hour possible in Seattle. Sawant quickly became an impediment to getting the latter done, repeatedly selling out Seattle’s poorest workers to the bosses (tip credit, phase-in) in exchange for getting her name on it.

From what I saw in the candidate forums, Jenks basically lands like a conservative with Moore. In fact they sat there together, nodding their heads in unison as if they agreed on just about everything, and wanted everyone to see how much alike they are. "Well, thank you for letting us know, and no thanks!"

Jenks has a more animated "liberal" personality - but so what? This is superficial and sometimes far worse than the conservative who at least tells you who they really are. Typical Democrats, they hold your hand, smile at you, ooze their sympathy, while they join the others in giving the city away to the wealthy interests and developers, and while the rents continue to rise, and they continue to schtook it to the poor.

If I had to choose between Jenks and Moore, I'd turn in a write-in. But I would be quite willing to vote for ObeySumner, who would not be my first choice out of that group, but she would be an very agreeable compromise for me.

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typo - a very agreeable compromise

@10 "they," that is. I didn't mean to misgender, but I'm older, youngsters, and old habits for some of us die hard. (So please don't be ableist about it.)

Good luck to the ObeySumner team! They look like a really nice group!