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Extra Campaign Fizz: County Edition
More campaign fizz as tomorrow's primary-election deadline approaches:
• The Seattle Times' Keith Ervin reports that King County Council candidate John Creighton, who's running an ugly campaign against fellow Jane Hague challenger Richard Mitchell, has a new ad trashing Mitchell (who was born in England and moved away when he was 12) for his "home with its long tradition of tabloid-style politics." Mitchell sent out a mailer last week accusing Creighton of stalking his ex-girlfriend (a story PubliCola broke last year) and Hague of drunk driving (for which she was arrested in 2007). Creighton's mailer,echoing a press release his campaign sent out last week, says "Using unfounded charges in politics may work where Richard Mitchell comes from" and suggests, over an image of a British Airways boarding pass, that Mitchell might "like to go back to his home with its long tradition of tabloid-style politics."
• Meanwhile, in a markedly calmer ad, Hague makes the case that she has "balanced the budget" and prevented tax increases on the council.
• Finally, in a press release this afternoon, initiative hawker Tim Eyman accuses Hague---along with fellow county council members Lambert, Julia Patterson, and Bob Ferguson---of "refus[ing] to let the people vote" on car-tab fees. In the release, Eyman calls Lambert, Patterson, and Hague "liars" for saying they would support putting the $20 fee on the ballot, then saying they would support a council vote to simply pass the two-year fee, and calls Ferguson "Switzerland" for saying he didn't know how he would vote on the proposal.
• The Seattle Times' Keith Ervin reports that King County Council candidate John Creighton, who's running an ugly campaign against fellow Jane Hague challenger Richard Mitchell, has a new ad trashing Mitchell (who was born in England and moved away when he was 12) for his "home with its long tradition of tabloid-style politics." Mitchell sent out a mailer last week accusing Creighton of stalking his ex-girlfriend (a story PubliCola broke last year) and Hague of drunk driving (for which she was arrested in 2007). Creighton's mailer,echoing a press release his campaign sent out last week, says "Using unfounded charges in politics may work where Richard Mitchell comes from" and suggests, over an image of a British Airways boarding pass, that Mitchell might "like to go back to his home with its long tradition of tabloid-style politics."
• Meanwhile, in a markedly calmer ad, Hague makes the case that she has "balanced the budget" and prevented tax increases on the council.
• Finally, in a press release this afternoon, initiative hawker Tim Eyman accuses Hague---along with fellow county council members Lambert, Julia Patterson, and Bob Ferguson---of "refus[ing] to let the people vote" on car-tab fees. In the release, Eyman calls Lambert, Patterson, and Hague "liars" for saying they would support putting the $20 fee on the ballot, then saying they would support a council vote to simply pass the two-year fee, and calls Ferguson "Switzerland" for saying he didn't know how he would vote on the proposal.
