Commentary
By Miki Mullor
Editor
Ballots for the Sammamish City Council have arrived and voters have a clear choice between two visions.
Sammamish voters face choice of high-density vision or measured growth
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Monthly Archives: October 2019
Influencing the City Council Elections: follow the money…from outside Sammamish
By Miki Mullor
Editor
Outside money is flowing to Sammamish city council elections at prodigious rates as ballots arrive at mailboxes this week.
- “Livable Sammamish,” former Mayor Don Gerend’s Political Action Committee, got additional $19,000 from the Town Center developer, for a total of $44,000.
- McKnight raise less than 3% of her funds from Sammamish donors and self funding $11,000 of her $26,000 budget.
- Sixty percent of Indapure’s donors and 69% of the cash contributions are from outside Sammamish.
- Malchow and Ken Gamblin raise over 90% from Sammamish donors.
- Karen McKnight, Rituja Indapure and Christie Malchow each crossed the $10,000 mark.
- UPDATE: WA Realtors PAC spend $11,500 to promote McKnight
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Op-Ed: Civic Engagement Can Improve Your World
By Stephanie Rudat
Guest contributor
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank
It is strange to think that Anne Frank, huddled in a tiny room with her family and some family friends, would have world improvement on her mind. She may not have had civic engagement on her mind. Hers was a mind that focused on the beauty of nature, on pouring your thoughts onto paper, which cannot judge you. But civic engagement is a sacred way to improve the world in the United States. Or, at least, it used to be.
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Sahalee Candidate forum: How would you vote on concurrency?
The Sahalee (and Timberline) Candidate forum was 2:21 hours long.
The next bite-size question is “How would you vote on concurrency ?”
https://youtu.be/4zvBMWqSHLw
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Disinformation on City’s Human Services at heart of smear campaign against Malchow
By Miki Mullor
Editor
As the tragic accidental overdose death of a local student unfolded last week, two politically-linked citizens mounted a smear campaign against Mayor Christie Malchow, who is seeking re-election.
This is an unusually long report. Its importance is in the proof of a disinformation campaign waged against Malchow on social media–and the evidence dispelling the false narrative.
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