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FINAL Election Results 12-7-2019 FINAL Election Results 12-7-2019: Bellevue City Council, pos. 7 James Bible LOST to Jennifer Robertson o 12,551 votes to 19,487 votes = 39.08% to 60.67% Burien City Council, Pos. 2 Cydney Moore WON over Joel Manning! o 6,209 votes to 5,382 votes = 53.39% to 46.28% Kennewick City Council, Pos. 5 Chuck Torelli WON over Charliss Warner! o 6,911 votes to 6,666 = 50.56% to 48.76% Olympia Mayor, Cheryl Selby WON over Nathaniel Jones! o 8,614 votes to 7,612 votes = 52.43% to 46.33% Olympia City Council, Pos. 2 Jessica Bateman WON over Phyllis Booth! o 10,486 votes to 5,257 votes = 66.04% to 33.11% Olympia City Council, Pos. 3 Dani Madrone WON over Matt Goldenberg! o 11,001 votes to 4,503 votes = 70.22% to 28.74% Pasco City Council, At-Large Pos. 7 Zahra Roach WON over Patrick Guettner! o 5,300 votes to 3,564 votes = 59.64% to 40.1% SeaTac City Council, District. 5 Takele Gobena WON over Stan Tombs! o 2,785 votes to 2,508 votes (CLOSE race) = 52.46% to 47.24% Seattle City Council, District 1 Lisa Herbold WON over Phil Tavel! o 20,033 votes to 15,787 votes = 55.71% to 43.9% o Career supporter of Unions and labor agreements Seattle City Council, District 3 Egan Orion LOST to Kshama Sawant (Important LOSS) in close race o 20,488 votes to 22,263 votes = 47.7% to 51.83% Seattle City Council, District 5 Debora Juarez WON over Ann Davison Sattier! o 19,532 votes to 12,588 votes = 60.59% to 39.05% Seattle City Council, District 6 Heidi Wills LOST to Dan Strauss o 18,799 votes to 23,868 votes = 43.83% to 55.65% Seattle City Council, District 7 Andrew Lewis WON over Jim Pugel (Important race)! o 18,336 votes to 16,122 votes = 52.98% to 46.58% Seattle School Board, Pos. 1 Eric Blumhagen LOST to Liza Rankin o 97,161 votes to 121,660 votes = 44.23% to 55.38% Spokane Mayor, Ben Stuckart LOST to Nadine Woodward (less than 900 votes!) o 33,692 votes to 34,540 = 49.08% to 50.32% Spokane City Council President, Breean Beggs WON over Cindy Wendie! o 33,595 votes to 32,638 = 50.51% to 49.07% Spokane City Council District 2, Lori Kinnear WON over Tony Kiepe! o 17,849 votes to 8,179 = 68.23% to 31.27% Spokane City Council District 3, Karen Stratton WON over Andy Rathbun! o 11,921 votes to 11,487 = 50.55% to 48.71% Spokane School Board, Pos. 1, Nikki Lockwood WON over Katey Randall Treloar! o 32,454 votes to 28,170 votes = 53.08% to 46.07% Spokane Valley City Council, Pos. 2 Brandi Peetz WON over Michelle Rasmussen! o 11,247 votes to 10,821 = 50.68% to 48.76% Spokane Valley City Council, Pos. 3 Lance Gurel LOST to Arne Woodard o 9,814 votes to 12,029 votes Spokane Valley City Council, Pos.6 Tim Hattenburg WON over Bo Tucker! o 11,695 votes to 10,451 votes = 52.49% to 46.90% Spokane Valley Fire Commissioner, Pos. 2 Mike Kester WON over Ronald Schmidt! o 15,841 votes to 9,852 votes = 61.12% to 38.01% Tukwila City Council, Pos. 2 Nancy Manos LOST to Kathy Hougardy o 1,152 votes to 2,094 votes = 35.26% to 64.1% Tukwila City Council, Pos. 4 Dennis Martinez LOST to Cynthia Delostrinos Johnson o 1,400 votes to 1,903 votes = 42.1% to 57.25% Tukwila City Council, Pos. 6 Tosh Sharp LOST to Kate Kruller o 1,478 votes to 1,749 votes = 45.5% to 53.85% West Richland City Council, Pos. 7 Kate Moran WON over Ken Stoker! o 2,188 votes to 1,766 votes = 55.21% to 44.56% King County Council, District 2 Larry Gossett LOST to Girmay Zahilay o 28,791 votes to 44,250 = 39.27% to 60.36% King County Council, District 4 Jeanne Kohl-Welles WON over Abigail Doerr o 63,822 votes to 22,034! = 73.91% to 25.52% King County Council, District 8 Joe McDermott WON over Michael Robert Neher! o 56,753 votes to 10,729 = 83.71% to 15.83% Port of Olympia Commissioner, Pos. 1 Helen Wheatley LOST to Joe Downing o 37,150 votes to 35,016 votes = 51.17% to 48.23% Snohomish County Superior Court Judge, Pos. 7 Edirin Okoloko LOST to Anna Alexander o 82,686 votes to 87,074 votes = 48.49% to 51.06% Snohomish County Superior Court Judge, Pos. 14 Paul Thompson WON over Casandra Lopez-Shaw! 90,719 votes to 73,604 = 54.96% to 44.59% Coeur d’ Alene City Council, Seat 1 Christine Wood WON over Elaine Price! o 3,218 votes = 62.86% Coeur d’ Alene City Council, Seat 3 Dan Gookin WON over Michael Pereira! o 3,157 votes = 62.44% Coeur d’ Alene City Council, Seat 5 Dan English WON over Tom Morgan, Roger Huntman, and Lacey Moen! o 2,548 votes = 50.27% I-1000 / Referendum 88: LOST by less than 1%! Approved: = 952,053 = 49.44%, Rejected: 973,610 = 50.56% I-976: Approved by the voters, which is a LOSS for working people and local communities! YES: 1,055,749 = 52.99%, NO: 936,751 = 47.01% The legal battle has begun as several Cities and Counties have files lawsuits to challenge the Constitutional viability of this measure. Overall SUMMARY: With the loss of I-976, this will potentially have huge impact on transportation and jobs across the state. Many local cities and Counties have filed lawsuits, so the final outcome will remain uncertain for many months. In the meantime, many local cities and counties have already calculated impacts to infrastructure and transportation projects. Many cites have place a ‘hold’ on starting any new planned infrastructure projects that have yet to break ground until further notice. GOTV efforts: o Many members from across the jurisdiction participated in these efforts including; phone banking, labor to neighbor canvasing, regional Labor Council participation, Precinct Committee Officer (PCO outreach, etc. o Our Annual ‘Scare out the Vote’ event (sponsored by your VOC and RENEW Committees for 2019 was a two (2) day event for 2019. These two days of direct member phone banking was a HUGE success this year, as our volunteer members made 1,016 phone calls, and reached 726 members! I-1000 / Ref. 88: o Since the LOSS was by less than 1%, the founding coalition plans to file another initiative for 2020. This time, the initiative will be directly to the people, instead of to the WA State Legislature as in 2019 (which passed). IDAHO endorsed candidates: o ALL three (3) endorsed candidates WON! Great job and thanks to ALL the Idaho PAC Members! Spokane and Spokane Valley: o Seven (7) of our nine (9) candidates WON! The toughest loss was the Mayor race for Spokane. Ben Stuckart lost by less than 900 votes! Great job, Spokane and Avista PAC Members! Washington State Candidates: o We had 33 total endorsed candidates, with 21 of them victorious! = 63.6% . With the Seattle City Council, Candidate Egan Orion LOST to incumbent Kshama Sawant . Three (3) Union members running for City of Tukwila City Council all LOST opeiu8 afl-cio .
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