Please join our moderator, Stephen Ellis, our timer Kim Street and your friends and neighbors for a Skyline Soapbox discussion of candidates at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, July 27th. There will be a limited number of seats in the Mount Baker Room, and the rest of us will join the discussion via Zoom.
If you’ve already voted, come and tell us who, and most of all why. If you’re still trying to make up your mind, see what your friends did. You can join them or try to cancel them out.
Remember – this is a top-two election. Whichever candidate gets the most votes, or second most votes, is on the ballot for the General Election. Four years ago we had a General Election race for State Treasurer between two Republicans because three Democrats almost equally split 52 percent of the primary vote.
The Mix of Candidates
There are thirty-seven candidates for governor, ranging from the American Patriot Party to the Socialist Workers Party, three types of Republicans, (from Trump Republican to Pre2016 Republican), five Democrats, one Green Party, various independents, and others claiming affiliation in parties none of us would recognize.
We also have eleven candidates for Lieutenant Governor, a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, and a Progressive. We also have two candidates for State Treasurer, four for Secretary of State, three for State Auditor, four for Attorney General, seven for Lands Commissioner, six for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Three for Insurance Commissioner.
Finally, we have four candidates for the Ninth District Congressional seat, and three candidates for each of our State House of Representatives seats.
You can’t tell the players without a program, so read your Voter’s Pamphlet before you come.