Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Ann Davison are Pete Holmes’ 2021 challengers for Seattle City Attorney. Each challenger has 14% support in a pre-Top Two election survey, while Holmes has 16%. Most voters are undecided.
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Bruce Harrell, Lorena González lead in 2021 Seattle mayoral race with many undecided
20% of 617 likely 2021 Top Two voters in Seattle surveyed before ballots dropped said they were voting for Harrell, while 12% said they were voting for González. 32% said they were undecided.
Right wing media figures and Republican elected officials could save lives and prevent illness by championing COVID vaccines
There’s an opportunity right now to save a lot of lives from being unjustly taken by a deadly virus. A really big opportunity.
Most of Texas’ House Democrats just left the state to stop a voter suppression bill
By walking out, Democratic state representatives are leaving the Texas State House of Representatives without a constitutionally required quorum, which means that the House cannot conduct any floor business.
Canada gets its first Indigenous Governor General, weeks ahead of expected snap election call by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Mary Simon, an Inuit leader, will be the first in the job to come from Canada’s Aboriginal First Nations peoples.
Tim Eyman pleads poverty in latest appeal for cash, says legal fees have “drained me dry”
The failed gubernatorial candidate and dishonest initiative promoter claims to be out of money and wants his friends to bail him out. Again.
NPI announces 2021 Seattle polling plans
A heads up to everyone interested in Emerald City politics: NPI is expanding its public opinion research to the local level, beginning with two surveys in Seattle.
Donald Trump frivolously sues big tech firms in his latest ploy for money and attention
“This lawsuit is a stunt, and it’s unlikely to find traction in the courts,” Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told the Daily Beast.
Amtrak announces huge fleet modernization project to benefit Cascades, other routes
Travelers in Cascadia will be the first nationwide to ride new Siemens trainsets, built as part of a $7.3 billion Amtrak plan to upgrade rail infrastructure.
Lorena González talks with NPI about her 2021 candidacy for Mayor of Seattle
Read a transcript of the conversation between NPI’s Ruairi Vaughan and mayoral candidate Lorena González, one of fifteen candidates vying to become Seattle’s next elected executive in the 2021 cycle.
2021 will be another rare year with no state level initiatives or referenda in Washington
For the first time since 2017 and for only the second time in several decades, there will be no statewide measures on the ballot in Washington State.
The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-five years later
This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence.
Dan Newhouse’s political future was imperiled by his January 2021 impeachment vote. Can he appease the Trump cult?
He may not like grizzly bears, but Dan has become a serious pander bear, trying to get back into the good graces of the Republican base after breaking with Trump.