Tag: WA-Counties

Lam­bert has yet to pub­lish a state­ment com­ment­ing on the elec­tion results on her Face­book page, web­site, or oth­er social accounts. But she did call Per­ry on Novem­ber 7th to con­cede the race, accord­ing to Per­ry’s campaign. 

The Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger appears head­ed for a rout over the Repub­li­can incum­bent, who has rep­re­sent­ed the dis­trict for decades. 

The incum­bent Repub­li­can King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber said she had fired her cam­paign con­sul­tants at 1892 LLC, but stopped short of tak­ing full own­er­ship for the bad deci­sions her cam­paign has been making. 

With all the signs sug­gest­ing that Lam­bert’s num­ber is up, the Red­mond Repub­li­can has decid­ed to resort to Trump-style gut­ter pol­i­tics and dog whistling to attack her Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Sarah Per­ry in the hopes that left lean­ing vot­ers will fill in the oval for her instead when vot­ing starts next week.

The 3rd has his­tor­i­cal­ly been Repub­li­can turf, but in recent years, its pop­u­lous west­ern side has been enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly vot­ing for Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates up and down the bal­lot, mak­ing it a prime Demo­c­ra­t­ic pick­up opportunity.

Endan­gered is vet­er­an Repub­li­can Coun­cilmem­ber Kathy Lam­bert, who has as of the sec­ond drop a less-than-impres­sive 41.38% of the vote with Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Sarah Per­ry not far behind at 34.23%.

In King Coun­ty’s first drop, Lam­bert has 41.33% of the vote, Per­ry has 34.03%, and Cohen has 24.05%. Only the top two move on, so the gen­er­al elec­tion will almost cer­tain­ly be a matchup between Sarah Per­ry and Kathy Lambert.

Nguyen’s entrance into the race had been expect­ed: the first-term state sen­a­tor, a ris­ing star in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, has been reach­ing out to Demo­c­ra­t­ic activists and pro­gres­sive lead­ers for weeks to advise them of his intentions.

It appears that King Coun­ty will soon have a new top law enforce­ment offi­cial, thanks to a strong Thurs­day show­ing for Mitzi Johanknecht.