1. PubliCola will be all over the radio today.

Erica will be on KIRO 97.3 with Dori Monson (sometime around Noon) to talk about her bomb shell scoop from yesterday: Homeless clients at SHARE (the local homeless shelter) say they were coerced by shelter staff into protesting outside city officials' houses.

And I will be on KUOW 94.9 with Steve Scher at 10 this morning talking about the local elections and the week's news.

2. More anti-union connections for mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan?

Mallahan's Georgia-based TV ad consultant, Luc Media—he recently paid the firm $100,000 for ad work—was tied to a harsh anti-union media campaign in 2007, according to a Washington Post report from the time .

3. King County Executive candidates Dow Constantine and Susan Hutchison faced off on KCTS TV 9 last night in an hour-long televised debate. My live blog version is here. (If you were reading along last night, I apologize for the blogging typos and loopy sentences. It's all fixed now.)

I'd have to say it was a draw.

Constantine hit Hutchison hard on her Republican leanings (not cool in King County), saying: "I believe that my opponent's contributions to George Bush, to the very conservative and anti-choice Mike Huckabee, to the BIAW's PAC [Building Industry Association of Washington], which spent hundreds and thousands of dollars attacking candidates who support environmental policy, say a lot about who she is and what she believes in."

Hutchison struck back, by trying to turn Constantine's strength (his Democratic party status) into a weakness, by hitting him hard for having a partisan mindset.



Saying she's supported Republicans and Democrats, she told the TV audience: "I think I'm like most of you which is that you don't tie yourself to a party, but you like to support people because you believe in them,  and you believe they're the right ones to serve the people."

(Her rejoinder would have worked better for me, though, if she'd had examples of the Democrats she's supported.)

You can watch the whole debate here. Lots of sparring.

4. PubliCola's endorsements for the election will run on Monday.