In a wild and chaotic meeting Tuesday, dealing with the city manager’s position, concurrency and development the Town Center, it became clear the business of Sammamish is done behind closed doors and that developers’ influence is running strong.
Sammamish Comment begins publishing its endorsements for Sammamish City Council on Wednesday.
Position 1 is followed by 3, 5 and 7 through Saturday. How we arrived at our decisions will be explained tomorrow.
For the first time since Sammamish was incorporated in 1999, citizens have a full slate of candidates that no matter who wins, they will be well served.
In every election in the past where there has been competition (a few elections had unopposed incumbents), there were weak, unqualified, token or self-interested/self-dealing candidates on the ballot.
This isn’t the case this year. Each candidate brings a level of knowledge and expertise that is complimentary in some cases and similar in others.
This doesn’t mean The Comment likes them all equally. We don’t. We will explain why in our endorsements.
Mark Baughman
Name: Mark Baughman
Position sought: City Council Position 1
Jason Ritchie
Name: Jason Ritchie
Position sought: Sammamish City Council, Position 1
Sammamish Comment’s coverage of the November 7 election begins later today with a report from last night’s City Council candidates forum.
Here’s what we have planned so far, leading up to the election. The schedule is subject to change and additions:
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