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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Filing Week 2011: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Wednesday afternoon

June and the 2011 fil­ing peri­od for elect­ed office are upon us. All this week, elec­tions offi­cials around the state will be accept­ing for­mal dec­la­ra­tions of can­di­da­cy from Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who have decid­ed they want to run for office.

Through­out the week, we’ll be keep­ing watch on who has filed in key races in King Coun­ty and else­where. This post is the first in a series of Fil­ing Week reports we’ll be bring­ing you at reg­u­lar inter­vals until the close of fil­ing on Fri­day at 4:30 PM.

Coun­ty­wide

Lloyd Hara and Sher­ril Huff remain unchal­lenged, so noth­ing to report.

Port of Seattle

Our own Gael Tar­leton has filed for reelec­tion to Posi­tion 2. (Full dis­clo­sure: We’re proud to acknowl­edge that Gael serves on NPI’s Board of Directors).

Cities

Roger Fly­gare has filed for Fed­er­al Way City Coun­cil, Posi­tion 3. He’s run­ning against Susan Honda.

There are now two indi­vid­u­als vying for the posi­tion of May­or of Lake For­est Park: Mary Jane Goss and Dwight Thompson.

John Mar­chione has filed for reelec­tion as May­or of Redmond.

Joel Wright has filed to run for Red­mond City Coun­cil, Posi­tion 5. Tom Fly­nn is also seek­ing to fill the seat that long­time Coun­cilmem­ber Richard Cole is vacating.

In Ren­ton, Mark Mar­tinez has filed to run for Posi­tion 5 on the city coun­cil. Ed Prince is also seek­ing the position.

School Board

Sher­ry Carr now has three more oppo­nents to con­tend with in her school board race: Jack Whe­lan, Kate Mar­tin, and Ter­ence J. Menage. (A cou­ple of them ought to con­sid­er run­ning against Har­i­um-Mar­tin Mor­ris, who remains unchal­lenged… for now). John Cum­mings is chal­leng­ing Peter Maier for Posi­tion 1, and Mar­ty McLaren is chal­leng­ing Steve Sundquist for Posi­tion 6.

Good to see that folks are step­ping for­ward to take on those incum­bents. The Seat­tle School Dis­trict, in my view, needs a change of leadership.

Written by Andrew Villeneuve :: 12:06 PM

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