1. The Service Employees International Union 775, the union that ran the SeaTac $15 minimum wage campaign, is hosting a joint fundraiser next week for the candidates it has endorsed in the two at-large city council races, city council president Tim Burgess and civil rights attorney Lorena González.

The list of hosts (all in for $100 each) almost seems to be an intentional Ping-Pong game of interests to demonstrate the candidates’ array of support.

Opposite the progressives at SEIU 775 (the fundraiser is being held at its downtown headquarters) there’s Vulcan—developers! Opposite lefty, environmental, gung ho transit leader and state representative Joe Fitzgibbon (D-34, West Seattle), there’s cranky King County Council Democrat Rod Dembowski. Opposite chamber of commerce leader Maud Daudon and developer attorney Jack McCollough, there’s the executive director of the lefty Housing Development Consortium, Marty Kooistra, and the executive director of the progressive greens at Futurewise, Hilary Franz. And opposite Lauren Craig the recent policy director at social justice group Puget Sound Sage, there’s developer lobbyist Ryan Bayne. Also, sponsoring the fundraiser, is mayor Ed Murray.

2. Socialist city council member and District Three candidate Kshama Sawant has responded to her opponent Pamela Banks’s charge at Sunday night’s debate that only 18 percent of Sawant’s contributions come from within the district (versus 45 percent of Banks’s). Sawant’s campaign rolled out these impressive numbers yesterday: With 2,600 total donors (dwarfing the number of individual donors to any other campaign), Sawant has 500 donors from within District Three.

The Sawant camp boasted on Monday: “Councilmember Sawant has the highest number of individual donors, from within her district and within the city of Seattle, than any other candidate running for any position in the city.”

Official fundraising reports aren’t in yet, but Sawant’s campaign says she raised a booming $70,000 in September bringing her grand total raised to nearly $360,000. She also notes that 1,000 of her donations (not donors, to be clear) are less than $25.

As of last month’s reports, Sawant had raised about $280,000 after taking in $46,000 in August. Banks had raised a total of $246,000 after taking in about $25,000 in August. Footnote: Sawant is taking in more and spending it faster, with only $2,000 left, while Banks had about $50,000.

3. Tenants’ rights city council candidate Lisa Herbold is turning the Rental Housing Association’s anti–Lisa Herbold talking points back against them. Herbold is using language taken directly from RHA’s communications about her positions—intended by the RHA as slams against her (she’s for local control of rent regulation to prevent things like dramatic rent increases without proper notice)—and putting them in her own door pieces.