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In rarity, Sammamish voters have eight good choices

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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.

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Ballots coming, check out Candidate Questionnaires

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Ballots for the Nov. 7 election arrive this week.

Sammamish citizens will be voting for four positions for City Council, one for the King County Council District 3 and a special election for the balance of the State Senator for the 45th Legislative District.

Sammamish Comment published candidate questionnaires for City Council during the primary and general election periods.

Below are links to the general election questionnaires, which have links to the primary questionnaires and to ones submitted to Sammamish Friends.

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Robinson: door-belling an ‘unproductive use of time’

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John Robinson, one of the candidates for Sammamish City Council Position 7, doesn’t view door-belling in this election as a good use of time.

He is running against Pam Stuart, who says she has door-belled 3,500-4,000 homes. Robinson says he’s door-belled 1,000 homes.

Door-belling in a local, city council election, is one of the most common campaign techniques—retail politics as its most basic.

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Stuart wants your vote, but hasn’t voted in one city election in 15 years–till her own

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Pam Stuart is a candidate for Sammamish City Council and she is asking for your vote.

She has spoken repeatedly of being “involved” in the City and how others should be, too.

But when it comes to voting for City Council and being involved in the most basic civic way in the 15 years she has lived in Sammamish, Stuart has an abysmal record. Continue reading →

“City Hall will not be the same;” reactions to the emergency building moratorium in Sammamish

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The surprise move Tuesday by the Sammamish City Council to adopt an emergency building moratorium was about more than creating a pause to understand how traffic concurrency became an enabler of development rather than a control mechanism.

It was a rebuke to a staff and consultants that, years in the making, had ignored Council policy and the City’s own codes and Comprehensive Plan.

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