Forward Seattle, a business-backed local political action committee, is spending more than $35,000 on a mailing to Approximately 50,378 Seattle Households opposing City Council Position 8 candidate Mike O'Brien, according to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission. O'Brien is running against real-estate investor and landlord Robert Rosencrantz.

We haven't seen the mailing, but it can't be good news for O'Brien, who's already been the target of a hyperventilating mailer from Rosencrantz, which accused him (falsely) of wanting to "put tolls on all Seattle streets."

Rosencrantz disavowed the tolling issue this week, after it was revealed that he himself had expressed support for "systemwide tolling." However, it was too little, too late—just days earlier, his anti-O'Brien mailer went out to 100,000 households.

O'Brien and Forward Seattle founder Joe Quintana would not comment on the mailing or tell PubliCola on what subject it targets O'Brien, and O'Brien couldn't be reached for comment.

Forward Seattle is funded, among others, by the state branch of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, the Rental Housing Association, the Washington Association of Realtors, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, and the Building Owners and Managers Association of Washington.