King County Council member Larry Phillips—pictured above making extensive remarks at Mayor Mike McGinn's Walk Bike Ride announcement this afternoon—said today that he expects the sales tax proposed by County Executive Dow Constantine to pass with six of nine council votes. The measure, which would send a 0.2 percent sales tax for public safety and health to voters countywide, needs six votes to pass the council.

Phillips would not say which council members, besides the four Democrats we mentioned in Morning Fizz, he expected to vote for the measure. Although he called the tax proposal "regressive and at the wrong time," during an economic recession, Phillips added that he himself is "somewhere in between a definite no and a maybe" on the proposal.