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Initial Whatcom County returns suggest a continued progressive majority on the Council

Excerpt: In the 2021 local elections, voters in the state's most populous northern border county appear to have returned a progressive majority to its seven-member legislative body. Meanwhile, the Bellingham City Council is set to become more diverse.
Published at:9:55 PM on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Sarah Perry easily defeating Kathy Lambert in hard fought King County Council race

Excerpt: The Democratic challenger appears headed for a rout over the Republican incumbent, who has represented the district for decades.
Published at:8:49 PM on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Kathy Lambert belatedly apologizes for racist attack mailers as donors and endorsers flee

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:6:18 PM on Friday, October 8th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Republican Kathy Lambert deploys racist mailers in desperate bid to defeat Sarah Perry

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:9:21 PM on Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Sarah Perry won Kathy Lambert’s precinct in the Top Two — here’s what that tells us about the coming general election battle for the 3rd

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:12:57 PM on Friday, September 3rd, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Democrats are on the verge of picking off yet another Republican in King County government. It’s a years-long trend.

Excerpt: 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%.
Published at:6:23 PM on Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
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King County’s 3rd District looks ready to flip Democratic: It’ll be Lambert vs. Perry this fall

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:8:30 PM on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Democratic State Senator Joe Nguyen launches campaign for King County Executive

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:9:10 PM on Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Thursday ballot counting update: Eyman’s 976 slides, Sawant gains, R‑88 vote gets tighter

Excerpt: Get up to speed with the latest developments in the Washington State 2019 general election.
Published at:9:11 PM on Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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King County gets a new Sheriff: Mitzi Johanknecht defeats John Urquhart

Excerpt: It appears that King County will soon have a new top law enforcement official, thanks to a strong Thursday showing for Mitzi Johanknecht.
Published at:11:15 PM on Thursday, November 9th, 2017
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Democrat Claudia Balducci crushes Jane Hague for King County Council, 6th District

Excerpt: The East­side of King Coun­ty con­tin­ues to turn blue. Belle­vue May­or Clau­dia Bal­duc­ci has emerged vic­to­ri­ous over long­time incum­bent Repub­li­can Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Jane Hauge in the 6th Dis­trict (Belle­vue, Kirk­land, Mer­cer Island, and envi­rons), cap­tur­ing near­ly six­ty per­cent of the vote in ear­ly returns — a stun­ning, lop­sided result that few saw coming. Bal­duc­ci has made […]
Published at:8:48 PM on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
Written by:Nick Pernisco
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Today is Election Day in Washington — time to vote NO on I‑1366 and YES on I‑1401

Excerpt: The big day is final­ly upon us! Today is Tues­day, Novem­ber 3rd… Elec­tion Day, also known as the last day you can do your civic duty and vote. Tonight we’ll begin to have some idea of who will be gov­ern­ing cities, ports, schools, and coun­ties across Wash­ing­ton State for the next few years (not to […]
Published at:1:15 PM on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Dow Constantine: Join me in supporting Best Starts for Kids (King County Proposition 1)

Excerpt: Edi­tor’s Note: It is our great plea­sure tonight to wel­come King Coun­ty Exec­u­tive Dow Con­stan­tine to NPI’s Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate. In this spe­cial guest post, Exec­u­tive Con­stan­tine explains why it is crit­i­cal that we pass King Coun­ty Propo­si­tion #1, the Best Starts for Kids levy, this Novem­ber. NPI has tak­en a posi­tion enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly sup­port­ing this mea­sure, […]
Published at:7:15 PM on Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Written by:Dow Constantine
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Ballots mailed for 2015 general election across Washington State

Excerpt: Elec­tions offi­cials across Wash­ing­ton State announced today that bal­lots are in the mail to the vast major­i­ty of the state’s three and half mil­lion reg­is­tered vot­ers, fol­low­ing last mon­th’s dis­tri­b­u­tion of bal­lots to over­seas and mil­i­tary voters. “This elec­tion may not have the siz­zle of the pres­i­den­tial-year elec­tion like we’ll have in 2016, but we […]
Published at:5:09 PM on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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