Sammamish Comment will begin making its recommendations tomorrow for the Sammamish City Council and King County Council District 3 elections Nov. 7.
There are four City Council seats up for election, Positions 1, 3, 5 and 7.
Here’s how The Comment proceeded to come to its recommendations:
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.
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.
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.
Today Sammamish Comment publishes the candidate questionnaires of Position 7 for City Council.
Position 5 was yesterday, Position 3 the day before and Position 1 on Monday.
Position 7
The candidates for Position 7 are John Robinson and Pam Stuart.
The candidate responses are printed verbatim. The Comment only checked their responses for spelling and grammar. Each response is in its own post, so scroll down on The Comment’s Home Page to see each response.
The responses were reviewed and processed by Scott Hamilton.
Position 1 Responses
Position 3 Responses
Position 5 Responses
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