1. The survivors of last month's primary elections are starting to rack up endorsements for the November general. Yesterday, Planned Parenthood Votes! of Washington endorsed Dow Constantine for King County Executive (over frequent Republican donor and maybe-abortion opponent Susan Hutchison ) and Mike O'Brien for Seattle City Council Position 8 (over Robert Rosencrantz, a three-time candidate who has repeatedly given a "qualified" response when asked whether he supports abortion rights and says he supports a "conscience clause" allowing health care workers to refuse to provide services based on their religious beliefs).

Port Commission candidate Tom Albro, meanwhile, announced the endorsement of state Attorney General Rob McKenna, a Republican. Albro, like Hutchison, has dodged questions about his Republican ties; Albro has received generous donations from conservatives like ousted former state lands commissioner Doug Sutherland and Eastside developer Kemper Freeman, and is endorsed by several Republican legislative district organizations.

2. This week marks the four-year anniversary of the death of the monorail, and to commemorate the occasion, Craigslist scavengers are selling off posters advertising the monorail's opening day: December 15, 2007. Twenty bucks gets you a pristine 2005 monorail poster "snatched from the recycle bin by one of the Monorail Board Members." Worth it? You decide.

3. Speaking of the monorail, former monorail director Joel Horn, who's kept a low profile since the project's demise (starting a biofuels company called Home Grown Investments), has reemerged as a donor in this year's elections, giving $250 each to McGinn, Richard Conlin opponent David Ginsberg, and the campaign for Referendum 71, the referendum on domestic partnerships.

4. This year's mayoral election is shaping up an awful lot like the general election of 2001 between Mark Sidran and Greg Nickels, and not just because Nickels, like then-incumbent Paul Schell, got ousted in the primary. A Seattle Times precinct-by-precinct breakdown of votes shows McGinn winning in more precincts than Mallahan (like Nickels in 2001), Mallahan winning in the outer-ring and wealthier areas of the city (like Sidran in 2001), and McGinn faring well in the inner city and South End (like Nickels in 2001).

Nickels, for his part, did well only in downtown and Southeast Seattle, failing to hold even his home turf of West Seattle. James Donaldson won a single precinct in Rainier Beach, and none of the other candidates won a single precinct. Oddly, one precinct (in Beacon Hill) recorded no votes, which may reflect an error by the city or county; we're looking into it and will report back later today.

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