Today Sammamish Comment publishes the candidate questionnaires of Position 1 for City Council.
Positions 3, 5 and 7 follow this week in sequence.
Position 1
The candidates for Position 1 are Mark Baughman and Jason Ritchie.
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.
Mark Baughman
Name: Mark Baughman
Position sought: City Council Position 1
All eight candidates for Sammamish City Council vowed last night that they would not raise taxes, but nonetheless most of them endorsed a host of new spending programs.
A few expressed fiscal caution about new programs and only one called out endorsement of new debt bonds for road infrastructures as “not free.”
This was perhaps the highlight of the only forum for all eight Council candidates for the Nov. 7 election. Eight people are running for four positions. Ballots are mailed to voters Oct. 18.
The only candidates forum for the Nov. 7 Sammamish City Council election will be Monday, Sept. 25, at City Hall. Details may be found here. Ballots are mailed to voters Oct. 18.
The forum runs from 6pm-8:30pm. Sammamish Comment will be at the forum and provide coverage either that evening or the next day.
The City will tape the forum for broadcast within a few days on Comcast Channel 21 and the City’s website/YouTube channel.
Four Council positions are up for election: 1, 3, 5 and 7. For the first time since 1999, there are no incumbents for these positions. The candidates are (in the order they appear on the ballot):
King County Elections today certified the results of the Aug. 1 primary, in which three of the four seats for Sammamish City Council were on the ballot.
The fourth seat only had two candidates and were not subject to the primary.
The winners are as Sammamish Comment projected on primary night. The final results are below.
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