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No, not Lisa Brown yet for governor.
Locally, however, there’s already some interest in city council seats. A quick run through Public Disclosure Commission files shows that:
Tom Towey is running for a Spokane Valley city council seat. Towey’s a Spokane Valley planning commission member, longtime Rosauer’s manager and former write-in candidate for council against councilman Steve Taylor.
Spokane Valley Mayor Richard Munson (who appointed Towey to the commission) is also running for re-election. Munson’s a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and retired stockbroker.
Brenda Grassel, impressively, already has a website up for her run for Spokane Valley City Council. She and her husband own a manufacturing company, Precision Cutting Technologies, and have rental properties.
Steve Eugster, a longtime Spokane attorney, would-be long-haul trucker and law school classmate of Justice Richard Sanders, is running for Spokane City Council against Councilman Michael Allen, a 2007 appointee and former Eastern Washington University official who’s running for re-election.
Eugster was on the council at a more contentious time, departing 6 years ago, and he has uttered what is so far the best quote of the 2009 campaigns, referring to the now-much-less-exciting council: “This `Era of Good Feelings’ is putting us all to sleep.” (Eugster’s political resurrection prompted actual rejoicing from S-R columnist Doug Clark.) Still, judging by Allen’s former job with EWU, his fundraising should be formidable. He was director of the school’s corporate and foundation relations.
Spokane Valley City Councilman Gary Schimmels is running for re-election. He’s a longtime construction company owner who two years ago sold his business, Affordable Lock Express since 1998.
Spokane City Councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin’s running for re-election. She’s a co-owner of a kitchen and bathroom remodeling company.
Challenging McLaughlin is Karen Kearney, a women- and children’s advocate and the former campaign chairwoman for Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.
Amber Waldref is running for Spokane City Council in District 1, for the seat currently held by Councilman Al French. She’s works for the Lands Council (a Spokane-based environmental non-profit group) is a Georgetown alumna, and counts among her Facebook friends state Sen. Chris Marr.
Richard Roesler covers Washington state news from The Spokesman-Review's bureau in Olympia.
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evergreen_east on May 19 at 9:44 p.m.
Speaking of elections during this basically local/county elections year, the chairman of the Party of Commons, Mark Greene, is running for King County Councilman in District Nine, and even though Eastern Washingtonians could care less about King County politics, this election could be different, because Mark is simultaneously running for U.S. Senate. If Mark makes a good showing in King County, it would be a tremendous boost in his challenge to Patty Murray, who by all indications seems to be running for re-election.
The Party of Commons’s comparatively broad support in Eastern Washington, especially indicated in Stevens and Kittitas counties during last year’s Secretary of State primary, will be essential for Mark as far as getting one of the top 2 spots in the 2010 “Top 2” primary is concerned. The Party of Commons’s limited but growing support throughout Washington, and particularly in Eastern Washington, gives the party a rare chance to be one of the main parties in a contested election for a major office. The Party of Commons, whose motto is Progress, Tradition & Ecology, is one of the leading third parties in Washington state, just behind the Constitution Party in the 2008 primaries, but ahead of the Green and Libertarian parties (re. total vote count for all offices in the 2008 elections). As our name indicates, we are for the common men and women, among others, and we try to work for the interest of working men and women, the unemployed, the unborn, the elderly, those unable to work, the poor, and for protectionist trade policies, restrictions on outsourcing, re-building the manufacturing infrastructure of America, building a strong environmental base, rescinding a good amount of foreign aid, and staying out of foreign affairs where it doesn’t concern us, and that’s more often than not.
Help Mark and the Party of Commons out in King County by sending a small contribution if you can. The Corporate Mainstream News Media in the Seattle area is not the least bit kind to us.
May God bless you, and have a great last third of the spring season!
www.PartyofCommons.com
evergreen_east on May 22 at 9:55 p.m.
Post-script:
The Party of Commons strongly believes in participating in elections as much as possible. We are not going to sit on the sidelines like the Green and Libertarian parties; we are going to be as active in the electoral arena as much as we possibly can, and that means trying to run in every congressional and state legislative district in Washington, although it seems impractical at the moment.
As far as we know, we are the only party that advocates lowering the voting age to 16 years of age, which would help to get more young people interested in civics and politics, which is doubly important now that civics classes unfortunately seem to be declining in the public educational realm.
As always, the Party of Commons is the vanguard of the poor and the downtrodden, and the forlorn and the forgotten, among others.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/party_of_commons
Descolada on July 08 at 8:37 p.m.
Diana Wilhite, Spokane Valley City Council member and former Mayor, is running for re-election to the Spokane Valley City Council. Diana, who was the NFIB Small Business person of the year (2008) and also the receipient of the Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce Harry E. Nelson Citizen of the Year award (2008), has been active in the community since moving to Spokane Valley in 1978. She and her husband Rick have owned a small business since 1981, Safeguard Business Systems. Diana’s website is: www.votewilhite.com