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[King] County Council roulette revisited
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 29, 2005 06:08pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Defying most local Democratic elected officials and party leaders, King County Councilman Bob Ferguson defeated council colleague Carolyn Edmonds last night to become the Democrats' official but legally iffy nominee for re-election.
At a county Democratic "nominating" convention conducted in defiance of the state's new "top two" primary election law, which faces a court challenge, Ferguson easily outpolled Edmonds 381 votes to 288, among 150 precinct committee officers in the council's newly reconfigured 1st District.
After King County voters passed a 2004 initiative to cut the County Council from 13 members to nine, districts were redrawn and enlarged. Ferguson's Northeast Seattle home wound up in Edmonds' district, which consists of nearly all of her old bailiwick plus about half of Ferguson's former district.
Edmonds, 51, of Shoreline had the support of the vast majority of local party bigwigs. But Ferguson, 40, has shown that he is a relentless, door-to-door, grass-roots campaigner.
Edmonds, perhaps anticipating defeat shortly before the votes were counted, said she felt that both candidates should be entitled to run despite the outcome of the "nominating" process. She added, "You can't let 150 decide the outcome."
But state Democratic Party Chairman Paul Berendt said, "I think Carolyn should bow out gracefully and support the nominee of the party." He added, "It's no great surprise to me that Bob won. He's smarter, he's harder working and Carolyn has made a lot of people angry."
Ferguson, asked whether he felt Edmonds should be allowed to run, said, "I'll leave that for Carolyn and the party to decide." |
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