Today's first winner: Mayor Mike McGinn. 

Mayor Mike McGinn emerged from yesterday's May Day protests looking not just triumphant (no one got hurt and the police acted with restraint) but sympathetic, thanks to what must have been a pretty scary attack on his house in Greenwood. Someone threw rocks through his front windows late last night and Mike McGinn and his family are now the personification of Seattle as undeserving victims in yesterday's parade of vandalism.[pullquote] "Apparently, those guys didn't confiscate all the rocks yesterday---a couple of them made it up to Greenwood."—Mike McGinn[/pullquote]

At this afternoon's press conference on the protests, McGinn chuckled over the attack on his house, which he said he initially thought was his "overactive Labrador, Midge" knocking something over.

"Last night, around 12:30, I heard a loud crashing noise. My wife and I were asleep at the time," McGinn said. "After [looking around for] a couple of minutes, we saw that a rock had come through our dining room window, and Peg also saw somebody outside." McGinn's dining room window had been knocked out and the vandals had also attempted to break the window in his living room.

Referring to a pile of confiscated rocks police had confiscated from downtown protesters, McGinn joked, "Apparently, those guys didn't confiscate all the rocks yesterday---a couple of them made it up to Greenwood."

Today's second winner: State Sen. Steve Hobbs. 

Senator Steve Hobbs, D-44, who's running for the First District Congressional seat recently vacated by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee, just snagged the endorsement of the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 191, the electrical trade union which represent electricians in nine counties, including the 1st's Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom.

Combined with an endorsement from the public school employees' union, the endorsement gives Hobbs, a conservative Democrat, some liberal credibility in his race against several liberal Democrats, including former state Rep. Laura Ruderman, former ProgressiveCongress.org leader Darcy Burner, and ex-Microsoft executive Suzan DelBene.

In the runup to Saturday's Washington State Labor Council endorsement meeting all the candidates are hyping their local union gets. Burner got the IBEW Local 46 endorsement earlier this week which also represents electrical workers in the 1st.