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Tag Archives: Mark Cross
Handing over the environmental baton in Sammamish
Nancy Whitten ends 12 years on the Sammamish City Council as its leading environmentalist.
With the year-end Sammamish City Council meeting last night, the end of an era comes with it.
Nancy Whitten ends 12 years on the Council. With her departure comes the loss of the Council’s most aggressive, consistent advocate for the environment. Others on the Council can legitimately lay claim to environmental credentials, but it’s Whitten and her lawyerly approach to documents who so often spotted loopholes, reversals and inconsistencies in ordinances and, more recently, in the rewrite of the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
Who’s going to be the leading environmentalist on the Council now that she is gone?
The answer may surprise you. It’s Bob Keller.
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Precinct-by-precinct analysis of Sammamish City Council election
A precinct-by-precinct analysis of the Nov. 3 Sammamish City Council election demonstrates that 
Ramiro Valderrama faced only token opposition, and therefore Sammamish Comment hasn’t spent a lot of time analyzing his race against Hank Klein. Klein dropped out of the race too late to take his name off the ballot. He didn’t campaign or raise money.
Here’s what The Comment’s analysis found:
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Final Nov. 3 Sammamish City Council Results
The final results of the Nov. 3 Sammamish City Council election confirm Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish the winners over Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance.
King County Elections posted the results shortly after 4pm today.
As Sammamish Comment reported on Election Night in calling the winners as noted above, the final results didn’t vary more than 1%-2% from Election Night. The three winners increased their vote tally margin daily until returned ballots trickled out.
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65% of votes cast in Sammamish City Council races were for change
Sixty-five percent of the votes cast in the Sammamish City Council races were cast for Christie Malchow,
Although Valderrama is an incumbent, he was isolated by the ruling majority of the Council and members worked hard to find a challenger to defeat his bid for reelection. His reelection is a blow to the ruling majority’s ambitions to maintain control and eliminate a challenger to the status quo.
The election of Malchow and Hornish, allies of Valderrama, cement voters’ message of change.
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