Final night time’s main at a look: SECB-endorsed State Home candidate Shaun Scott carried out “like an incumbent within the race for the forty third Legislative District.” He claimed 54% of the vote. Seattle Instances-endorsed Daniel Carusello carried out like the autumn. He’s down there with 17% of vote. As for We Coronary heart Seattle’s Andrea Suarez, she carried out like Monie Love—that means, she is within the center, with 23% of the votes. As for the citywide metropolis council race, Seattle Metropolis Council Member Tanya Woo didn’t have an evening to recollect. On the primary poll drop, which is essential for conservatives resembling herself, she claimed solely 41% of the votes, which is 5 factors behind SECB-endorsed Alexis Mercedes Rinck. It appears Seattle’s latest marriage with the precise has hit the rocks.
Reminder that “incumbent” Tanya Woo has but to win an election leaving us with zero proof a group majority prefers her political strategy https://t.co/VSNzVhKH8O
— Dae (@daeshikjr) August 7, 2024
Bob Ferguson seems to be in full command of the gubernatorial race. The primary night time gave him 46% of the votes, which is method above Dave Reichert’s 28%. Trumpy GOP-endorsed Semi Hen simply fizzled.
Imraan Siddiqi additionally fizzled. He acquired simply 3% of the votes for Congressional District 8. US Rep. Kim Schrier holds the lead in that race with 52%, and can in November face second-place Carmen Goers, a Republican. Congressman Adam Smith will win once more in November. And down in Congressional District 3, incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who acquired 47% of the votes, will, in November, enter the ring once more with Joe Kent, who’s 9 factors behind his rival.
The SECB has spoken: “A Good Night time for Seattle Progressives, The Stranger Kicked the Seattle Instances’ Ass, Dems Dominated Statewide Races, and Extra.” Learn our seven takeaways.
Danny Westneat has spoken: “WA main voters once more are saying: ‘Go away, Trump’” His purpose for this declaration? “It’s a stretch to dub Tuesday’s main a “blue wave”—roughly half the ballots stay uncounted. However Democrats in statewide races usually have been outpolling their GOP rivals.”
Dang, Kettle, I hope final night time’s main is the start of your return to the shadows.
UPDATED! With audio from Bob Kettle, on a sizzling mic, complaining “This fucking drives me nuts” after a commenter spoke in opposition to the SCORE jail contract and upcoming proposals to reinstate drug and prostitution loitering legal guidelines. https://t.co/pg8EVI416z
— Erica C. Barnett ericacbarnett on all platforms (@ericacbarnett) August 7, 2024
Squad member Congresswoman Cori Bush is out. St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell beat Bush in Missouri Home District 1’s Democratic main. It appears that evidently Gaza is, for progressives on the nationwide stage, a chalice full of poison.
Cori Bush defiant in defeat: “All they did was radicalize me, so now they must be afraid.”
“They about to see this different Cori, this different facet,” she stated. “AIPAC, I am coming to tear your kingdom down.” pic.twitter.com/690T0aEhmZ
— Mark Maxwell (@MarkMaxwellTV) August 7, 2024
And now let’s get all the way down to enterprise and speak in regards to the rats of Cal Anderson Park. I obtained this textual content just a few days in the past from a pal: “A rat simply jumped on my leg at Cal Anderson park!! As I walked previous a bush.” How terrible, but additionally how unsurprising. Everybody is aware of rats love that park like nothing else. They’re in every single place to be seen there: the holes, the sphere, the roots of bushes, the bushes, the pool, you identify it. However what about Capitol Hill Station? Why do not they look after that golden alternative? To at the present time, I’ve not noticed even one rat operating across the station’s eight-year-old tracks. What offers? Perhaps we should always get a rat from NYC to point out this unimaginative lot that there is extra to life than a park. Look, the New Yorker would possibly say (or squeak), a complete subway station is simply ready for us, and it is simply over there. Come on, my Seattle comrades. Let’s do that like we do in NYC. The Cal Anderson rats will in all probability say one thing like: Are you kidding? The subway is for losers. We’re staying up right here as a result of we’re profitable up right here.
Talking of subway stations. Mike Lindblom has some excellent news for the misplaced folks of this metropolis. On the finish of the current month, Sound Transit will cease calling its underground cease between Westlake and Pioneer Sq. “College Road Station” and begin calling it Symphony Station, a change we have been calling for since 2019. That is nothing however music to the ears of the misplaced. Lindblom: “Nearly each day, someone steps off a light-weight rail prepare at College Road Station in downtown Seattle, when their actual vacation spot is 3½ miles north on the College of Washington.”
Goldman Sachs purchased South Lake Union’s Skyglass Tower for a cool $175 million. The virtually brand-new “gleaming glass accordion-style luxurious high-rise” was owned by a “Chinese language developer that has shut down its Seattle workplace.”
Three folks shot throughout a funeral gathering close to Judkins Park. The Seattle Police Division is investigating the incident, which occurred Tuesday. The taking pictures despatched a 30-year-old lady, a 30-year-old man, and a 26-year-old man to the hospital. “[All are] in passable situation,” studies KING 5. Nonetheless, a bullet wound is not any joke. Within the phrases of Queen Latifah: You bought to put on that for all times.
Let’s finish Slog AM with some old-fashioned blue-eyed soul by Steve Winwood:
