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The screenplay was inspired by two real-life events: the Manson family Tate murders , a multiple homicide, as well as a series of break-ins that occurred in Bertino's neighborhood as a child. Some journalists noted similarities between the film and the Keddie cabin murders that occurred in Keddie, California in , though Bertino did not cite this as a reference. Originally slated for a theatrical release in November , it was postponed before a theatrical release on May 30, Contemporary film scholars have interpreted it as a criticism of the perceived safety of pastoral life , as well as an exploration of stranger-on-stranger violence. In a secluded area, away from civilization, James Hoyt and Kristen McKay arrive at night to James' childhood summer home, returning from a friend's wedding. Tension abounds between the couple, as Kristen rejected James's marriage proposal to her after the reception. James calls his friend Mike and asks him to pick him up in the morning. A young blonde woman, whose face is obstructed by poor lighting, asks the couple "Is Tamara home? James goes for a drive to purchase a pack of cigarettes for Kristen; before he departs, he starts a fire in the hearth. Kristen realizes the chimney flue is closed, and attempts to open it; smoke emanating from the fire triggers a smoke alarm. Kristen attempts to disarm the smoke alarm when she is startled by another knock at the door; she drops the alarm on the floor, unnerved. She calls James' cellphone from the landline, but their call is cut short. Kristen returns to the kitchen, where, unbeknownst to her, a man—the Man in the Mask—watches her from an adjacent hallway. Kristen notices the smoke alarm she left on the floor is now sitting on a chair, and realizes someone else has been in the house. Upon going to retrieve her cell phone from the charger, she finds it is missing, and begins to panic. When she hears a noise from the backyard, she arms herself with a knife, and opens the curtains to find the Man in the Mask, staring at her. Screaming, she stumbles into the hallway, and watches as the front door is forced ajar. When she goes to push the door closed, the blonde woman, now in a doll mask—Dollface—peeks inside. After locking the door, Kristen hides in the bedroom and hears the strangers outside bashing the walls of the house. The noise eventually stops and James returns to the home. After she explains what has happened, he goes outside to the car to obtain his phone, whereupon he finds the car ransacked and vandalized, and sees Dollface watching him from afar. The couple attempt to leave in James' car but another woman in a pin-up girl mask—Pin-Up Girl—rear-ends them with a truck, forcing them to flee. Back inside the house, Kristen and James find a shotgun and wait for the intruders in a bedroom. Mike arrives and realizes something is wrong after seeing James's wrecked car. He enters the house, and James, mistaking him for one of the intruders, shoots him dead. Devastated, James remembers an old radio transmitter in the backyard shed. He leaves and encounters Pin-Up Girl, searching the backyard with a flashlight. When James tries to shoot her, the Man in the Mask knocks him unconscious, inadvertently discharging the gun. Kristen hears the shot and runs to the shed. She finds the radio, but Pin-Up Girl smashes it with an ax. Kristen rushes back to the house where she encounters Dollface, who taunts her with a knife, saying, "You're gonna die. At dawn, the couple awaken to find themselves tied to chairs in the living room with the strangers standing before them. Kristen demands, "Why are you doing this? The strangers unmask themselves to Kristen and James before taking turns stabbing them in the chest and abdomen. After, the strangers drive away in their truck, and come across two young boys on bicycles distributing religious tracts. Dollface comes out of the truck and asks if she can have one of their tract cards. One of the boys asks her, "Are you a sinner? One of the boys approaches Kristen's body and attempts to touch it. As he reaches out to her, Kristen, still alive, startles him by grabbing his hand and screaming. Unlike in eighties slasher horror, for example, where engaging in negative behavior such as drinking, doing drugs, having premarital sex are often forerunners to being killed by the killer s ; [here], death is random and unrelated to one's behavior. In The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies , Mike Mayo noted the film's "grim realism," writing that the main characters "could have wandered out of a gloomy Ingmar Bergman film," ultimately branding the film as an example of "naturalistic domestic horror" akin to Michael Haneke 's Funny Games. The film has also been noted by scholar Philip Simpson as highlighting "the divide between the underprivileged and privileged classes," as well as for its inversion of commonly-held beliefs about violence in urban areas and pastoral ethics: " The Strangers , as many horror films do One might call the narrative sensibility informing The Strangers 'pastoral paranoia', in that danger lurks among the rough folk of the country rather than the suburbs and cities. Of course, it may be that provincial violence is a result of contamination, or in other words that the kind of stranger-upon- stranger violence typically associated with urban life metastasizes to the rural, a phenomenon noted by Louis Wirth. In his book Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film , scholar Tony Williams notes the film's setting within a s-era home as representative of an "American tradition of violence that is random and without any coherent explanation. Bryan Bertino, on his inspiration for the film. Writer-director Bryan Bertino wrote the screenplay which was originally titled The Faces ; [9] it was the third screenplay he had ever written. According to production notes [9] and subsequent interviews, [10] the film was inspired by true events from Bertino's childhood: Bertino explains: [11]. As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it. At the door were some people asking for somebody who didn't live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses. In interviews, Bertino stated he was "very impressed" with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the "true events" the movie is allegedly based on, but said that his main inspiration was the true crime book Helter Skelter , which is about the Manson Family murders ; [12] some journalists speculated that the film was also inspired by the unsolved Keddie Cabin Murders of that occurred in a small vacation community in California's Sierra Nevada. Bertino entered the screenplay for The Strangers into a screenwriting contest, after which he sold its directorial rights to Universal Pictures. When casting the two leading actors in the film, Bertino sought Liv Tyler for the role of Kristen. Often in movies, it's all spelled out for you, and the dialogue is very explanatory. But Bryan doesn't write like that; he writes how normal people communicate—with questions lingering. I knew it would be interesting to act that. Speedman was also impressed by the script, stating that "the audience actually gets time to breathe with the characters before things get scary as hell. That got me interested from the first pages". In casting the three masked intruders, Bertino chose Australian fashion model Gemma Ward for the part of Dollface, feeling she had the exact "look" he had imagined; Ward was officially cast in the film in September Bertino had not initially planned on directing The Strangers , and had been disconnected from the project after selling directorial rights to Universal Pictures. Despite weather complications, the film was largely shot in chronological order. During production, it was reported that Liv Tyler came down with tonsillitis due to the extensive screaming the role required her to do. I had been told that she really wanted to be scared. She didn't want to have to fake it, and so it was my responsibility to really scare her. So we shot that scene, I ran at her, she started actually screaming, and then she kicked me away. The masks featured in the film were chosen by Bertino, who wanted them to appear as though the killers "could have picked them up at any store. A musical score, consisting of 19 pieces composed by score producer tomandandy , was released on May 27, , and was distributed by Lakeshore Records. The producers originally planned for a summer release in July , [27] which was eventually postponed to November ; however, this date was postponed as well. In late July , Bertino, Tyler and Speedman attended San Diego's annual Comic-Con event to promote the film; all three were present for a questions-and-answers panel session, as well as a screening of the film's official teaser trailer ; [30] this trailer was released on the internet several weeks later. It was not until March that a full-length trailer for the film was released, which can be found on Apple 's QuickTime trailer gallery. Two one-sheet posters for the film were released in August , one showing the three masked Strangers, [33] and the other displaying a wounded Liv Tyler. Both the Blu-ray and DVD feature rated and unrated versions of the film, with the unrated edition running approximately two minutes longer. Bonus materials include two deleted scenes and a making-of featurette. The website's critical consensus reads: " The Strangers has a handful of genuinely scary moments, but they're not enough to elevate the end results above standard slasher fare. Unfavorable reviews included Roger Ebert 's of the Chicago Sun-Times , who gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, saying: "The movie deserves more stars for its bottom-line craft, but all the craft in the world can't redeem its story. Bertino's undeveloped protagonists are colossally stupid and frustratingly passive. He tries to get under our skin with a pile driver. Among the positive reviews, Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times said The Strangers is "suspenseful," "highly effective," and "smartly maintain[s] its commitment to tingling creepiness over bludgeoning horror. Club said that "as an exercise in controlled mayhem, horror movies don't get much scarier. Additional positive feedback for the film came from Joblo. In , the film was ranked 13 on " Bravo 's 13 Scarier Movie Moments" television piece, [57] and in a retrospective, Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly deemed the film a "modern-day slasher classic. Club named it the 23rd best horror film made since In August , Rogue Pictures confirmed that a sequel was in the works, [59] with Brian Bertino co-writing the screenplay with Ben Ketai. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. Liv Tyler Scott Speedman. Release date. Running time. I was thinking about the Tate murders and realizing that these detailed descriptions had painted a story of what it was like in the house with the victims. But none of the victims knew about the Manson family or why it was happening to them. So, I got really fascinated with telling the victims' tale. And not filling it in with an FBI profile and not filling it in with finding out that somebody's grandmother beat them and now they want to kill everybody. Our staff is working morning, noon, and night to make your contributions count. Help us reach our goal of 1, new contributors by the end of fall! Dear readers, Now more than ever, The Stranger depends on your support to help fund our coverage. Thank you and we are truly grateful for your support. Support The Stranger Log in Sign up. The Stranger 's Endorsements for the November General Election Vote like it's the last time you'll ever vote again, because it might be. Dropping Off Your Ballot? 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Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths. Director: Johannes Roberts. Writers: Bryan Bertino , Ben Ketai. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Both Doglio and Strickland supported Initiative , which made it easier to prosecute cops who kill, but Doglio used the power of her office to actively boost the initiative while Strickland "had little involvement in the campaign. Right now, Washington's Congressional Delegation contains exactly one progressive Democrat, or two if you catch Rep. Adam Smith on a good day. The rest of them are "fiscally conservative" New Democrats or Republicans. Don't send Jayapal back to D. Vote Doglio. Assuming he doesn't take a job in Joe Biden's cabinet, Jay Inslee will continue doing about as well as a standard-issue corporate Democrat can do as governor. And at least Inslee believes in the legitimacy of democratic rule, unlike his competition, Loren Culp, the creepy little virus party planner who crawled out of a Facebook comment thread and captured the imagination of the state's batshit Republicans. This guy literally believes "Democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism. The basket is too low. He's a small-town cop who initially made headlines after refusing to enforce a modest voter-approved gun safety law. He self-published a book about the experience called American Cop , which began with a forward from Ted Nugent. Ha ha. About one-third of the book, Crosscut reports, is just the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. For his efforts to oppose state law, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose "worldview is dangerously aligned with views held by domestic terrorists and violent white supremacists," according to the Daily Kos , dubbed Culp "Police Chief of the Decade. Three years ago he was "accused in a lawsuit of botching a child sexual-abuse investigation and intimidating the victim with threats of a false-claims charge," according to the Seattle Times. Okay, stop. Let's leave it at this: Culp is a knock-off Trump whose campaign survives on steroid injections of Facebook-fueled lies and experimental cocktails of QAnon innuendo. All of which means, of course, that he could win if you don't take him seriously. Vote Inslee. State Sen. Marko Liias bills himself as the progressive in this race. And he is. But mostly because the other option is retiring U. House Rep Denny Heck. If we could take Rep. Heck at his word, his name wouldn't even be on the ballot. In the introduction to his memoir, Lucky Bounce , Heck wrote: "I am not running for another office as long as I live. During his time in the Senate, Liias floated a bad car tab fix , voted along with the rest of his colleagues to create a giant premium tax loophole for big business , and sponsored a bill to enrich predatory payday lenders. And he's done some great stuff, too. Meanwhile, Heck wouldn't say if he supported just-cause legislation, he thinks cops can be hate- crimed , and his primary ambition is to be a steadfast champion of "civility. This will be an uphill battle for Liias. Heck established a significant lead after the primary, and the last time Liias ran for statewide office he didn't even make it through the primary. This time, he has. Now it's time to take him all the way. Vote Liias. We know some of you are out there voting for incumbent Secretary of State Kim Wyman because you find some sort of elemental wisdom in the idea of a Republican overseeing the electoral policy of a largely Democratic state. Somehow, you believe this dynamic maintains some balance in the force, and achieving that balance is so seductive it causes you to overlook the fact that she opposed the Washington Voting Rights Act in To the extent you fit that description, we hope the last few months have disabused you of that notion. In an attempt to steal the election, the President has spent a lot of his time attacking mail-in voting, the system we've used here in Washington for years. In response, our Secretary of State has refused to use the power of her office to condemn him for it. She argues that issuing such a condemnation would politicize her role and thus undermine faith in the state's electoral process, and so she'll continue to dance around Trump's nonsense and just restate Washington's experience with vote-by-mail instead. But condemning the President for directly attacking our democracy isn't partisan, it's the right thing for the state's chief elections officer to do. Though Wyman isn't up to the task, State House Rep. Gael Tarleton is more than willing. Tarleton came up as a senior defense analyst for the Pentagon. She brought that knowledge to bear as Majority Floor Leader in the House, where she passed laws to beef up cybersecurity in our elections , improve voter outreach and education, and expand voter access across the state. Though she lacks direct experience administering elections, she's written the damn bills on elections, and she's fired up about defending democracy. Vote Tarleton. Back in , the SECB held our noses and endorsed current Washington State Treasurer and fucking Republican Duane Davidson to avoid getting stuck with another candidate we described as "the evil human version of the Geico Gecko. But we're in a much better place now that we can support former Democratic Washington State House Rep. In the Legislature, he stood out as one of the few Democratic lawmakers to oppose a bill designed to hide public records, and he's led the way on good campaign finance bills. Before that he prosecuted Medicare fraud in the Attorney General's office. As Treasurer, Pellicciotti plans to bring more transparency to the office, maintain the state's good credit rating, and, unlike the incumbent, work closely with lawmakers without the aid of an expensive corporate lobbyist. Though we'd prefer a Treasurer who supports establishing a state bank, Pellicciotti is at least "open to a study" of the issue, whereas Davidson is over here calling it Socialism. Let's just start with the obvious shit. And I did! Look at the spine on Davidson! And yet, when we put the question to him again this year, his spine disintegrated. He wouldn't tell us, no matter how much poking and prodding and ego-stroking we did. Davidson argues his choice for president is irrelevant to his role as Treasurer. The fuck it is!!! Last summer Trump's DOJ threatened to withhold federal funds to Seattle for protesting against police brutality, which put the financial security of the entire state at risk. And here we have that state's Treasurer playing cute with his allegiances. On top of that, it just fucking sucks to have a Republican treasurer. Case in point: Davidson refused to sign a bipartisan letter in support of legislation that would have allowed the cannabis industry to bank money instead of only using cash. Because the U. Meanwhile, Davidson has spent his tenure staffing out important board meetings while he's off attending "Treasurer Talks" with bank lobbyists and other GOP booster events. This guy has been milking it for four years, and it's time we ushered him into retirement. Vote Pellicciotti. The entire Employment Securities Department is still underwater from the scam on unemployment benefits earlier this year. Most recently, it came out that the ESD paid out claims to the stolen identities of its own employees. McCarthy took up the helm of the auditor's office back in , and she's killing it. Well, she's doing fine. We don't really know what "killing it" as an auditor means. But we like McCarthy. We like her silly little auditor jokes, but we don't like her competitor, a man named Chris Leyba. Not pronounced "labia" :. Leyba, a Republican and former cop, claims to have more "hands on experience with government auditing" than McCarthy. He doesn't. He lists "3 years as a law enforcement performance auditor," whereas McCarthy spent four years as the state auditor and four years as the Pierce County auditor. She's spent her whole life in local government, auditing city budgets and now state budgets. Vote McCarthy. The only way you can become the Attorney General of Washington is to defeat Bob Ferguson in a game of chess. Republican Matt Larkin, who opposes safe-injection sites and who thinks the state did too much to fight COVID, has yet to beat him or even to challenge him to a game, so far as we know. Therefore, we're sticking with Ferg. Fuck Matt Larkin! We like Ferguson because he has sued the Trump administration to protect our civil liberties 80 times since His record so far is on cases where a judge has given a final ruling. When he's not fighting Trump in court, he's suing Facebook for breaking our state's strong campaign finance laws, and running one of the best consumer protection shops in the country. Ferguson isn't perfect. He tossed around "reimagining" the police instead of defunding, and he brought the culvert case against Native tribes all the way up to the Supreme Court and lost via tie when he could have dropped it. But he's open to decriminalizing sex work! And Ferguson, if re-elected, wants to focus on tackling opioid abuse and expanding litigation around civil rights and environmental issues. Vote Ferguson. Even though Hilary Franz broke well-established SECB law when she called her Seattle Times endorsement "the biggest newspaper recommendation in the state," we still have no choice but to stan. We're not happy. We're not pleased. But we also couldn't imagine a better person to fight Washington's horrific climate fires. In her first term as head of the Department of Natural Resources, Franz improved the agency's reputation by emphasizing quick responses to fire and by traveling around the state to meet with county commissioners and electeds who hated the previous head of the DNR. She developed a good plan to create a dedicated fund for new equipment and firefighters, which includes a plan to remove dead trees and brush from 2. That includes Franz's competition, Sue Pederson, who says she believes in climate change, but who is running for elected office with a party that does not. This former Grays Harbor Republican Party chair said she "never thought of logging as a bad thing. Did she never see FernGully? Regardless, it sounds like someone can't wait to jump into the pockets of the timber lobby. Vote Franz. We never thought it could come down to this, but the biggest, most consequential, most up-in-the-air race on the ballot is this battle between incumbent Superintendent of Public Schools Chris Reykdal and conservative "nonprofit" director Maia Espinoza, aka Washington's Betsy DeVos. We're here because Reykdal performed poorly in the August primaries. But Reykdal didn't perform poorly because he's a bad campaigner or because he's bad at his job. He's great at his job. Reykdal has been responsibly closing schools, navigating remote learning when , Washingtonians don't have internet access, providing meals for the kids who relied on school for getting them, and doing everything he can to close the achievement gap. Espinoza gleefully spreads these lies. You can find the lie about Reykdal supporting a bill that teaches 4th graders sexual positions, for instance, in your very own voters' pamphlet. Just to be absolutely clear: the bill doesn't do that , and Reykdal doesn't support that. It's such a huge lie that a Thurston County judge actually officially declared it a false statement from the bench. But Espinoza spreads it anyway because she can. She appears unable, actually, to stop herself from lying. Espinoza claimed to run a "nonprofit" called the Center for Latino Leadership, but that organization never had c 3 status. On the primary voters' pamphlet, she claimed she had a master's degree from a one-year program at an online university, but she didn't. She expects to graduate this month. She claimed she's "not a politician," but she ran a failed campaign for a Washington State House seat in Piling up lies for a year isn't exactly setting a good example for our kids, and it's utterly disqualifying for this office. Vote for Chris Reykdal with the same speed and enthusiasm that you conjure when you vote for Joe Biden. Or um, actually, vote with way more enthusiasm than you conjure when you vote for Biden. Just, whatever you do, vote Reykdal. Mike Kreidler has served as Washington's Insurance Commissioner for 20 years, and we hope he serves for another He's a no-nonsense technocrat who seems to run a tight ship that actually does some big shit you don't hear about too often. In the last four years, his office has flagged and fought against opening massive insurance tax loopholes for big businesse s, pushed through legislation to basically end surprise medical billing , banned scammy health care sharing companies, and attracted a couple new insurance companies to play in Washington's health care exchange. If we send him back, he promises to work to ban credit scoring, a practice that's racist as hell. Vote Kreidler. The only thing more exciting than seeing "Democratic" State Sen. Mark Mullet booted from office is knowing that Ingrid Anderson will be the one wearing the boot. Unlike the DINO incumbent she's running against, Anderson, a psychiatric nurse at Overlake Hospital, wants to fight climate change, fix our unfair tax structure, and tap her experience as an essential worker battling on the frontlines of the pandemic to improve our scammy health care system. Though they don't offer an explanation, King County Republicans probably endorsed Mullet this cycle because of his vote against affirmative action, his efforts to open up multi-million-dollar tax loopholes for big businesses, his attempt to limit collective bargaining for teachers, his vote to water down a bill ensuring rest breaks for health care workers, his vote against a update to bill that prevented employees from asking applicants how much they've made in the past, his opposition to moderate proposals designed to fight climate change, and his allergy to taxing the rich—but honestly, what else would you expect form a former Bank of America executive? Vote Anderson. Look, Rep. Bill Ramos isn't going to go over well among the blood-red socialists in the anarchist jurisdictions of our fine state. The former Issaquah City Councilmember and transportation consultant seeking his second term in this Eastside seat made one thing clear during our meeting: He knows where the Devil is, and that's in the details. He's skeptical of legalizing apartments everywhere, he's skeptical of issuing a moratorium on highway expansions, and his major accomplishment during his first term amounted to a bill recognizing the timber industry's potential as an important partner in the fight against climate change. Uh huh. But whatever. He likes progressive taxation so long as we can use it to replace regressive taxation, he voted the right way on modest climate change legislation, and he's quick to admit when he hasn't done his homework on a topic, which is kinda refreshing. If re-elected, Ramos promises to work with other lawmakers in the Members of Color caucus to champion legislation that brings greater transparency and accountability to policing. He said he's especially interested in changing the culture of policing, and he wants more transparency around police misconduct. He came alive when talking about police reform, and we did, too. Ramos is running against a Republican goatee named Ken Moninski. Moninski, who's never held elected office, naturally opposes taxes on the rich, "policies from Seattle," and mask mandates. In a recent "episode" of his snoozy Facebook live series called "Ken Moninski: Unmasked," he called Loren Culp Washington's "great Republican candidate. Vote Ramos. We're not thrilled to have to pick between a landlord who racked up a handful of complaints and a longtime prosecutor who recently left his job as an HR guy at Amazon, but until we start paying people decent money to represent us in Olympia, it's going to keep being like this. In this case, however, David Hackney , the prosecutor who used to work at Amazon, promises to actually use the large majority Democrats already have to get shit done, unlike year incumbent Rep. Zack Hudgins, an incrementalist Democrat who promises to work to "bring Republicans along. On top of that, while Hudgins voted against modest eviction reforms , Hackney plans to champion tenant protections, including just cause and rent stabilization measures. Hudgins has admitted to supporting those policies too, now that he has a primary challenger. Hackney also backs single-payer health care, requiring independent authorities to investigate and prosecute cops who kill, and he vows to bring the energy of an organizer to this office. And as a Black man representing one of the most diversely populated districts in the state, Hackney would better reflect the demographics of the neighborhoods he wants to serve. Vote Hackney. Steve Bergquist was nearly late to our phone interview because he was at a meeting for the state's Core Plus program, which connects students with career training opportunities. That pretty much sums up his unflagging devotion to education. A social studies teacher, Bergquist fixed inequalities in state extracurricular programs, established a voter pre-registration system for teens, and improved job training to help paraeducators become credentialed teachers. And while education is a top concern, he's also heavily involved in the state budgeting process. He helped wrangle significant cost savings this year, chiefly from a freeze on hiring and travel, which made coronavirus-related budget constraints far less painful. His favorite book: Charlotte's Web , which he's currently reading to his daughter. Steve's opponent is Sean Atchison, a Republican and that a person could identify as a member of that party without shame is already disqualifying who says he opposes letting young people pre-register to vote because "this country started by only allowing property owners to vote because they owned a piece of the country. Atchison also opposes the state's comprehensive sex education bill because it would "prescribe" new parents for children. Vote Bergquist. Jamila Taylor, an attorney who specializes in domestic violence cases, wasn't particularly inspiring in our endorsement interview. Clearly, she's a suburban Democrat. But as a caregiver for her ill family members, Taylor's heart's in the right place around health care. She's also good on renter's issues, since she's been fucked over from rent hikes for years just like the rest of us. She's running against Republican Federal Way City Councilmember Martin Moore, whose whole thing is that he's tired of putting politics over people. Literally, the only thing listed on his issues page is that Democrats and Republicans should stop making things Democrat or Republican issues. Martin, now is not the time for this posturing. Now is past time, however, to send more Black women to the state Legislature. Vote Taylor. Despite the short session, Johnson passed bills to expand access to dental care and mental health services and to establish an environmental education program in high schools across the state. He'll continue focusing on health care, education, affordable housing, and supporting small businesses if he's re-elected. All things we can get behind. Johnson also served on the Black Caucus last session, and he's going to work with other members on police reform but not on defunding. His opponent, Mormon ice cream shop owner Jack Walsh, is running on a platform that just seems to be "don't allow pot stores in Federal Way. Vote Johnson. Cindy Ryu is frank in a way other legislators aren't when she levels with the SECB about the problems of trying to pass progressive taxes. Sure, we'd love a rosier outlook, but we're all for Ryu telling us like it is. Ryu says she's down for a capital gains tax. She's as good on housing as a commercial landlord could be, which means she wants to chip away at single-family zoning, believes in just-cause protections for tenants, but isn't on board with rent control. Ryu also wants us to be able to light up a J filled with greens we grew in our own window planter boxes. A vote for Ryu is a vote for homegrown weed. The biggest thing for us is her commitment to police reform. Ryu's record on policing is superb. She helped pass I, was part of the leadership team that established a joint legislative task force on community policing standards, and we're confident she'll add a necessary voice to the conversations around law enforcement next session. Vote Ryu. In her second term, Lauren Davis has big plans to plug state budget holes by passing legislation that would close tax preferences for the opioid industry, and by adding an opioid impact fee, which sound like good big plans to us. She also favors a capital gains tax, and she's hypothetically in favor of an income tax but pretty much only hypothetically. We're going to look past the fact that Davis still thinks marijuana is a gateway drug, and instead rest our blood-shot eyes on Davis's "non partisan party" opponent, Tamra Smilanich. Smilanich is a realtor and a perennial losing candidate who wants to "avoid a state income tax. Vote Davis. We're still excited about Rep. Tina Orwall. She's a former social worker who has been representing the 33rd Legislative District for 11 years. During that time she shed light on the state's rape kit backlog, where around 10, rape kits sat in storage, untested and gathering dust until she passed legislation to address the problem. After years of fighting for change, Orwall said around 5, of the 10, kits have been tested. She's also passed legislation to make suicide prevention trainings mandatory for all health care professionals even veterinarians! Currently, Orwall is working on implementing a program in South King County where new police officers will intern for social workers. The social workers will mentor the new cops about mental health and help integrate them into the fabric of communities the officers will serve. We'll see how well that works, but Orwall's optimistic. She's also committed to reshaping the structure of policing and investing in different models that prioritize mental and behavioral health. Social workers are ready and willing for this work, Orwall said, and they have been for a while. The funding just hasn't been there. Orwall's got a lot more in the works, such as addressing airplane fuel pollution and air quality in communities around airports. She's down for a capital gains tax, exploring expanding the estate tax, and making corporations pay their fair share. However, while she's open to the idea of decriminalizing sex work, Orwall wants to discuss the problem more. She's concerned about child sex trafficking going up if sex work is decriminalized, and cited some concerning child pornography stats in Washington. However, studies show that decriminalization actually brings down sex trafficking. Buuuttttt, moving on. We're still team Orwall. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Episode List. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. 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Edit Cast Series cast summary: Richard Armitage Adam Price 8 episodes, Shaun Dooley Doug Tripp 8 episodes, Siobhan Finneran Johanna Griffin 8 episodes, Jacob Dudman Thomas Price 8 episodes, Misha Handley Ryan Price 8 episodes, Jennifer Saunders Heidi Doyle 8 episodes, Paul Kaye Patrick Katz 8 episodes, Dervla Kirwan Corrine Price 8 episodes, Kadiff Kirwan Daisy Hoy 8 episodes, Brandon Fellows Mike Tripp 8 episodes, Anthony Head Ed Price 8 episodes, Hannah John-Kamen The Stranger 8 episodes, Stephen Rea Martin Killane 8 episodes, Kai Alexander The Strangers True Story: Real-Life Crimes That Inspired The Horror Movie

With the masked frighteners getting more violent and no means to contact help, the couple must hold out as long as possible. In the dead of night, the troubled young couple of James Hoyt and Kristen McKay arrive at the Hoyts' secluded summer home, after attending a friend's wedding reception. Suddenly, a loud and menacing knock at the front door breaks the silence, abruptly disrupting the already tense ambience in the house, as an ominous female figure standing on the ill-lit doorstep is persistently asking for someone they don't know. Before long, the isolated vacation house is under siege, and a pitiless trio of masked assailants invade the seemingly safe home. Are the Strangers intent on murder? Sign In. The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Retrieved October 27, Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved March 11, Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved April 20, IGN UK. Ziff Davis. The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Dread Central. Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Archived from the original on August 18, Worst Previews. Archived from the original on November 13, Archived from the original on January 9, Retrieved February 22, Beyond Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 10, Upcoming Horror Movies. Retrieved March 4, The Wrap. Archived from the original on March 5, Archived from the original on December 8, Nightmarish Conjurings. Retrieved March 14, May 11, Retrieved October 13, Retrieved May 13, CraveOnline Media. Archived from the original on May 11, Complex Media. Nightmare on Film Street. Retrieved January 10, In a reverse of The Strangers though, Bertino says he later learned that the people knocking were robbing houses in the neighborhood where no one was home, instead of attacking people who were. Still, the experience left a mark on Bertino that later served him well as a screenwriter. Thankfully, the perpetrators in his case were only looking to steal valuables, and not take lives. Michael Kennedy is an avid movie and TV fan that's been working for Screen Rant in various capacities since In that time, Michael has written over articles for the site, first working solely as a news writer, then later as a senior writer and associate news editor. Most recently, Michael helped launch Screen Rant's new horror section, and is now the lead staff writer when it comes to all things frightening. A FL native, Michael is passionate about pop culture, and earned an AS degree in film production in He also loves both Marvel and DC movies, and wishes every superhero fan could just get along. When not writing, Michael enjoys going to concerts, taking in live professional wrestling, and debating pop culture.

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It's at last a new movie that realizes what you don't show can be even more scary than what you do. Still, one hopes that Mr. Bertino can touch up the mistakes from this film and , and deliver a really great horror movie next time around. Jay Addison. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants. Director: Bryan Bertino. Writer: Bryan Bertino. Watch on Prime Video included with Prime. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. Horror Favorites. Top Modern Horror Movies. Share this Rating Title: The Strangers 6. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. You're Just Being Paranoid? Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Alex Fisher Mormon Boy 1 Peter Clayton-Luce Mormon Boy 2 Scott Speedman James Hoyt Liv Tyler Kristen McKay Gemma Ward Dollface Kip Weeks But you should vote "yes" anyway to send a strong message to the county. This is a common sense addition to allow the office of oversight to do their job. There's no getting around it: switching the Sheriff from an elected position back to an appointed position strips voters of their direct power over the office—to the extent that they have it, anyway. The fact is, Sheriffs run once every four years in off-year elections, which tend to have much lower turnouts than even-year elections, so lots of people aren't even voting for Sheriff in the first place. It's also a down-ballot race, so even fewer people are likely to vote. And when we do vote on a Sheriff, it's not like we're getting to pick between a progressive reformer and an obvious psychopath, if we even get to choose at all. Here's the recent electoral history, briefly: Republican Dave Reichert was appointed in and ran unopposed until he appointed conservative Sue Rahr, who ran unopposed until she appointed Republican Steve Strachan, who lost a race to John Urquhart, who was touted as a reformer but who was ousted after "allegations of bias, retaliation , and rape ," which he denied. And now we have Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht, who let police reforms "die on the vine," according to a report from the Office of Law Enforcement Oversight. Electing a Sheriff also grants the Department of Public Safety more autonomy, which is nice if you're the Department of Public Safety, but not nice if you're interested in checks and balances. The Sheriff, for instance, doesn't have to come before the King County Council to explain what the hell is going on over there if she doesn't want to. There's still been no announcement, there's still been no discipline. It's the middle of October. It's time and time again with that stuff, because they can. Returning power to a democratically elected King County Executive and County Council to appoint and approve a Sheriff might help fix these accountability issues. Appointing the Sheriff would allow the county to perform a nationwide search, which would expand the pool of applicants to include Sheriffs who have had the least harmful impacts on marginalized communities and who have instituted the strongest accountability measures. And if an appointed Sheriff fucks up big-time, we wouldn't have to wait four years or endure a tedious recall process to get them out of there. The Exec could just fire them. And if the Exec doesn't fire the bad Sheriff, then we can fire the Exec. Dembowski and Kohl-Welles laughed when we told them this. The Exec and the Council appointed the Sheriff before voters changed the law back in , and they're more than capable of overseeing the Sheriff again. Also, what the fuck? A position someone has to campaign for in order to get elected is literally already political. Of course, standing in the way of any reform is the Sheriff's union, which can treat accountability measures as bargaining chips in contracts. Until we fix that, we won't really get true reforms. Until then, let's at least increase the size of the applicant pool for the job. As you may have gleaned from the title, this amendment would allow the King County Executive and the Council to change the structure and duties of the Department of Public Safety. We're not talking about tasking the Council and the Exec with micromanaging day-to-day operations at the Sheriff's Office here. We're talking about granting them the power to change broad policy. Right now, for example, even if they wanted to, the county couldn't dispatch social workers and paramedics instead of armed police officers to mental health crisis calls. But if we pass this amendment, which we should, then they could. Cops argue we shouldn't put the Council and the Exec in charge of setting broad public safety policy because they're too busy overseeing the policy of Their tiny little pea brains couldn't possibly focus on something as important as public safety on top of all that other stuff. These powers, however, would be nothing new for the county electeds. After the birth of the current county government system in , the council changed around the duties of the Department of Public Safety a bunch of times. The Sheriff's Office, for instance, used to run our disaster preparedness response, but now the Department of Emergency Management does that. But in , when America was snorting pure, uncut, racist "tough on crime" laws, Republicans came along and stripped that power from the Council. King County voters went along with it, and now we're watching the largest movement in U. It's time for a change. Cops also argue this amendment amounts to a "thinly veiled" attempt to abolish the police. But the amendment specifically says the Sheriff's Office "shall not be abolished," so they can just shut the fuck up with that fear-mongering nonsense. As King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay put it after passing the ordinance that put this amendment on the ballot, "We only get one shot every ten years to update the charter, and this amendment gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make significant, effective, innovative changes to our system of public safety. We jumped at that opportunity, and I think we'll all be better off because of it. The alternative would be to wait another ten years, and that's not an option. This amendment would prohibit the county from discriminating against family caregivers and veterans when hiring or contracting for county jobs. So if you spent a few years caring for a parent or child because you couldn't afford a professional caregiver, the county can't use that experience against you. Ditto for veterans who were honorably discharged, or discharged solely based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Given how hard COVID has hit families across the county, there's no doubt that more people will need to take time off to care for relatives. They shouldn't fear discrimination when returning to work. And the hospital could use some serious modernization. Right now, Harborview doesn't have enough beds for everyone, and not near enough to avoid cross-contamination when certain deadly respiratory viruses break out. As it is, some patients wind up in hallways to avoid infectious diseases. Not only that, but the construction project will add 7, good jobs plus 2, apprentice or local-hire positions that will be critical for economic recovery in the post-COVID world. We know all you overtaxed property owners out there are going to groan about "property tax fatigue," but are you seriously going to vote against expanding a hospital in the middle of a pandemic AND in the middle of a mental health crisis? You're not, because we're telling you not to, and because everyone—even those freaky little Safe Seattle activists—agrees we need more mental health treatment space, more hospital beds, and better hospitals. King County Executive Dow Constantine came to the SECB absolutely panicked that this critical measure won't pass with a high enough share of the votes. He's convinced young people won't fill out the whole ballot after voting for Trump to go fuck himself. We suggested he should do a shirtless Tik Tok dance and simp for your votes, but he said he was too busy for that. Look, Harborview needs you, and you need Harborview. Now is the time for the center-left to predictably warn the far-left not to squander votes on far-left presidential candidates, and for the far-left to predictably equate the center-left with the right, and for the two sides to bark at each other ad nauseam until politics becomes people on the internet puking on each other forever. If the election goes the wrong way, the center-left will blame the far-left for the loss, and then everyone will loudly lick their wounds until the next election. Except this time, there really might not be a next election. So now we must come together and agree on this point: Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, because they're the better enemies to have. No, Joe Biden does not support the policies we need to save this country from the brink. He does not support universal health care, he does not support the Green New Deal, and he does the best he can to remain on the friendly side of law enforcement. He will also never check the power of banks, nor will he rein in the bloody expansion of the military-industrial complex. But you can work on Biden. You can't work on Trump. Trump's presidency forces the left to spend too much time and energy putting out unnecessary fires. The Muslim ban is one such fire, and so is the White House's open support of white supremacist organizations. Four more years of Trump will only lock the left in struggles that were long-settled for the most part, such as reproductive rights, rather than present and pressing ones, such as climate change and deep police reform. Voting for Biden is voting to move on to the battles we need to fight right now. So, yes, Biden is bought. But he is also the better enemy. Also, if he doesn't win and the Democrats don't take the Senate, then the federal government won't bail out broke states including ours! Vote Biden. Aside from wanting to avoid the total collapse of our Democratic Republic, voting for Seattle Rep. She was elected the same year Trump was elected, and she's since used the full force of her office to fight every single racist, xenophobic, immiserating policy that has spewed forth from that Covid- infested tar pit. When Trump imposed the Muslim ban, she rushed to SeaTac. When Trump started tearing children from the arms of their parents at the border, she interviewed asylum-seekers at the Federal Detention Center. When Trump installed a goon as Postmaster General to steal the election, she held a hearing to figure out what the hell was going on. You get the idea. But she's not just fighting back, she's also fighting to push progressive policy forward. She fought for a paycheck guarantee plan to truly support families during this pandemic, a deep reduction of student debt, a Green New Deal, and she wrote the damn House version of Medicare for All. Jayapal will also continue to push Biden left on the issues. As she told him earlier this year, "It was centrist politics that made Trump possible, and centrist politics will only bring him or someone like him back into power. One thing to always keep in mind in matters concerning the political future of first-term Rep. Kim Schrier is that she is the only woman physician in Congress. This is significant because in past elections health care always took a backseat to the economy. And there was some justification for this: In the US, affordable health insurance, for the most part, has been tied to jobs. Because it is very difficult to have one without the other, the state of the other, the economy, is of central concern to voters. This is why the US still does not provide universal protection from the accidents of life, and also why Obamacare has never not been in peril. In , we saw for the first time the economy subordinated to a public health crisis. The effort to reassert the primacy of jobs is called "reopening the economy," and it's not working. Schrier understands that the choice between opening the economy and addressing COVID has been a false one, which is why you must vote for her and dump her opponent, a Republican named Jesse Jensen, into the same dustbin of history that unscientific Trump is heading to. Schrier, who feels she has a "proven track record" that shows her support for "health care, a public option, universal preschool, labor unions," and who has helped pass six pieces of legislation in her two years in Congress, understands the next two years, the post- Covid years, will decide the fate of the US in the 21st century. Will we take science seriously or not? We have failed. Vote Schrier. Ah yes, Rep. Adam Smith. Though Smith isn't perfect, he does try to slip Democratic priorities into the annual defense bill, and he does support "improving" Obamacare, pushing through comprehensive immigration reform, fixing "glaring holes" in gun laws around background checks, "totally reexamining the way we do law enforcement," the Green New Deal, and progressive taxation. And he's running against perennial Republican challenger Doug Basler, a "pro-life, pro-Trump constiutional conservative" who apparently loves wasting money running for office. This one's easy, mostly because no one is running to the left of him this time. Vote Smith. Electing either candidate would mark an achievement for representation in local politics, with Strickland becoming the first Black member of Congress from Washington and Doglio becoming the first openly LGBTQ member of Congress from Washington. But on the issues, the answer is clear. Doglio is a longtime climate activist who rejects corporate PAC money, and who spent her time in Olympia trying to pass decent-to-very good legislation, including a bill that would tax CEOs based on the income gap within their companies. Both Doglio and Strickland supported Initiative , which made it easier to prosecute cops who kill, but Doglio used the power of her office to actively boost the initiative while Strickland "had little involvement in the campaign. Right now, Washington's Congressional Delegation contains exactly one progressive Democrat, or two if you catch Rep. Adam Smith on a good day. The rest of them are "fiscally conservative" New Democrats or Republicans. Don't send Jayapal back to D. Vote Doglio. Assuming he doesn't take a job in Joe Biden's cabinet, Jay Inslee will continue doing about as well as a standard-issue corporate Democrat can do as governor. And at least Inslee believes in the legitimacy of democratic rule, unlike his competition, Loren Culp, the creepy little virus party planner who crawled out of a Facebook comment thread and captured the imagination of the state's batshit Republicans. This guy literally believes "Democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism. The basket is too low. He's a small-town cop who initially made headlines after refusing to enforce a modest voter-approved gun safety law. He self-published a book about the experience called American Cop , which began with a forward from Ted Nugent. Ha ha. About one-third of the book, Crosscut reports, is just the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. For his efforts to oppose state law, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose "worldview is dangerously aligned with views held by domestic terrorists and violent white supremacists," according to the Daily Kos , dubbed Culp "Police Chief of the Decade. Three years ago he was "accused in a lawsuit of botching a child sexual-abuse investigation and intimidating the victim with threats of a false-claims charge," according to the Seattle Times. Okay, stop. Let's leave it at this: Culp is a knock-off Trump whose campaign survives on steroid injections of Facebook-fueled lies and experimental cocktails of QAnon innuendo. All of which means, of course, that he could win if you don't take him seriously. Vote Inslee. State Sen. Marko Liias bills himself as the progressive in this race. And he is. But mostly because the other option is retiring U. House Rep Denny Heck. If we could take Rep. Heck at his word, his name wouldn't even be on the ballot. In the introduction to his memoir, Lucky Bounce , Heck wrote: "I am not running for another office as long as I live. During his time in the Senate, Liias floated a bad car tab fix , voted along with the rest of his colleagues to create a giant premium tax loophole for big business , and sponsored a bill to enrich predatory payday lenders. And he's done some great stuff, too. Meanwhile, Heck wouldn't say if he supported just-cause legislation, he thinks cops can be hate-crimed , and his primary ambition is to be a steadfast champion of "civility. This will be an uphill battle for Liias. Heck established a significant lead after the primary, and the last time Liias ran for statewide office he didn't even make it through the primary. This time, he has. Now it's time to take him all the way. Vote Liias. We know some of you are out there voting for incumbent Secretary of State Kim Wyman because you find some sort of elemental wisdom in the idea of a Republican overseeing the electoral policy of a largely Democratic state. Somehow, you believe this dynamic maintains some balance in the force, and achieving that balance is so seductive it causes you to overlook the fact that she opposed the Washington Voting Rights Act in To the extent you fit that description, we hope the last few months have disabused you of that notion. In an attempt to steal the election, the President has spent a lot of his time attacking mail-in voting, the system we've used here in Washington for years. In response, our Secretary of State has refused to use the power of her office to condemn him for it. She argues that issuing such a condemnation would politicize her role and thus undermine faith in the state's electoral process, and so she'll continue to dance around Trump's nonsense and just restate Washington's experience with vote-by-mail instead. But condemning the President for directly attacking our democracy isn't partisan, it's the right thing for the state's chief elections officer to do. Though Wyman isn't up to the task, State House Rep. Gael Tarleton is more than willing. Tarleton came up as a senior defense analyst for the Pentagon. She brought that knowledge to bear as Majority Floor Leader in the House, where she passed laws to beef up cybersecurity in our elections , improve voter outreach and education, and expand voter access across the state. Though she lacks direct experience administering elections, she's written the damn bills on elections, and she's fired up about defending democracy. Vote Tarleton. Back in , the SECB held our noses and endorsed current Washington State Treasurer and fucking Republican Duane Davidson to avoid getting stuck with another candidate we described as "the evil human version of the Geico Gecko. But we're in a much better place now that we can support former Democratic Washington State House Rep. In the Legislature, he stood out as one of the few Democratic lawmakers to oppose a bill designed to hide public records, and he's led the way on good campaign finance bills. Before that he prosecuted Medicare fraud in the Attorney General's office. As Treasurer, Pellicciotti plans to bring more transparency to the office, maintain the state's good credit rating, and, unlike the incumbent, work closely with lawmakers without the aid of an expensive corporate lobbyist. Though we'd prefer a Treasurer who supports establishing a state bank, Pellicciotti is at least "open to a study" of the issue, whereas Davidson is over here calling it Socialism. Let's just start with the obvious shit. And I did! Look at the spine on Davidson! And yet, when we put the question to him again this year, his spine disintegrated. He wouldn't tell us, no matter how much poking and prodding and ego-stroking we did. Davidson argues his choice for president is irrelevant to his role as Treasurer. The fuck it is!!! Last summer Trump's DOJ threatened to withhold federal funds to Seattle for protesting against police brutality, which put the financial security of the entire state at risk. And here we have that state's Treasurer playing cute with his allegiances. On top of that, it just fucking sucks to have a Republican treasurer. Case in point: Davidson refused to sign a bipartisan letter in support of legislation that would have allowed the cannabis industry to bank money instead of only using cash. Because the U. Meanwhile, Davidson has spent his tenure staffing out important board meetings while he's off attending "Treasurer Talks" with bank lobbyists and other GOP booster events. This guy has been milking it for four years, and it's time we ushered him into retirement. Vote Pellicciotti. The entire Employment Securities Department is still underwater from the scam on unemployment benefits earlier this year. Most recently, it came out that the ESD paid out claims to the stolen identities of its own employees. McCarthy took up the helm of the auditor's office back in , and she's killing it. Well, she's doing fine. We don't really know what "killing it" as an auditor means. But we like McCarthy. We like her silly little auditor jokes, but we don't like her competitor, a man named Chris Leyba. Not pronounced "labia" :. Leyba, a Republican and former cop, claims to have more "hands on experience with government auditing" than McCarthy. He doesn't. He lists "3 years as a law enforcement performance auditor," whereas McCarthy spent four years as the state auditor and four years as the Pierce County auditor. She's spent her whole life in local government, auditing city budgets and now state budgets. Vote McCarthy. The only way you can become the Attorney General of Washington is to defeat Bob Ferguson in a game of chess. Republican Matt Larkin, who opposes safe-injection sites and who thinks the state did too much to fight COVID, has yet to beat him or even to challenge him to a game, so far as we know. Therefore, we're sticking with Ferg. Fuck Matt Larkin! We like Ferguson because he has sued the Trump administration to protect our civil liberties 80 times since His record so far is on cases where a judge has given a final ruling. When he's not fighting Trump in court, he's suing Facebook for breaking our state's strong campaign finance laws, and running one of the best consumer protection shops in the country. Ferguson isn't perfect. He tossed around "reimagining" the police instead of defunding, and he brought the culvert case against Native tribes all the way up to the Supreme Court and lost via tie when he could have dropped it. But he's open to decriminalizing sex work! And Ferguson, if re-elected, wants to focus on tackling opioid abuse and expanding litigation around civil rights and environmental issues. Vote Ferguson. Even though Hilary Franz broke well-established SECB law when she called her Seattle Times endorsement "the biggest newspaper recommendation in the state," we still have no choice but to stan. We're not happy. We're not pleased. But we also couldn't imagine a better person to fight Washington's horrific climate fires. In her first term as head of the Department of Natural Resources, Franz improved the agency's reputation by emphasizing quick responses to fire and by traveling around the state to meet with county commissioners and electeds who hated the previous head of the DNR. She developed a good plan to create a dedicated fund for new equipment and firefighters, which includes a plan to remove dead trees and brush from 2. That includes Franz's competition, Sue Pederson, who says she believes in climate change, but who is running for elected office with a party that does not. This former Grays Harbor Republican Party chair said she "never thought of logging as a bad thing. Did she never see FernGully? Regardless, it sounds like someone can't wait to jump into the pockets of the timber lobby. Vote Franz. We never thought it could come down to this, but the biggest, most consequential, most up-in-the-air race on the ballot is this battle between incumbent Superintendent of Public Schools Chris Reykdal and conservative "nonprofit" director Maia Espinoza, aka Washington's Betsy DeVos. We're here because Reykdal performed poorly in the August primaries. But Reykdal didn't perform poorly because he's a bad campaigner or because he's bad at his job. He's great at his job. Reykdal has been responsibly closing schools, navigating remote learning when , Washingtonians don't have internet access, providing meals for the kids who relied on school for getting them, and doing everything he can to close the achievement gap. Espinoza gleefully spreads these lies. You can find the lie about Reykdal supporting a bill that teaches 4th graders sexual positions, for instance, in your very own voters' pamphlet. Just to be absolutely clear: the bill doesn't do that , and Reykdal doesn't support that. It's such a huge lie that a Thurston County judge actually officially declared it a false statement from the bench. But Espinoza spreads it anyway because she can. She appears unable, actually, to stop herself from lying. Espinoza claimed to run a "nonprofit" called the Center for Latino Leadership, but that organization never had c 3 status. On the primary voters' pamphlet, she claimed she had a master's degree from a one-year program at an online university, but she didn't. She expects to graduate this month. She claimed she's "not a politician," but she ran a failed campaign for a Washington State House seat in Piling up lies for a year isn't exactly setting a good example for our kids, and it's utterly disqualifying for this office. Vote for Chris Reykdal with the same speed and enthusiasm that you conjure when you vote for Joe Biden. Or um, actually, vote with way more enthusiasm than you conjure when you vote for Biden. Just, whatever you do, vote Reykdal. Mike Kreidler has served as Washington's Insurance Commissioner for 20 years, and we hope he serves for another He's a no-nonsense technocrat who seems to run a tight ship that actually does some big shit you don't hear about too often. In the last four years, his office has flagged and fought against opening massive insurance tax loopholes for big businesse s, pushed through legislation to basically end surprise medical billing , banned scammy health care sharing companies, and attracted a couple new insurance companies to play in Washington's health care exchange. If we send him back, he promises to work to ban credit scoring, a practice that's racist as hell. Vote Kreidler. The only thing more exciting than seeing "Democratic" State Sen. Mark Mullet booted from office is knowing that Ingrid Anderson will be the one wearing the boot. Unlike the DINO incumbent she's running against, Anderson, a psychiatric nurse at Overlake Hospital, wants to fight climate change, fix our unfair tax structure, and tap her experience as an essential worker battling on the frontlines of the pandemic to improve our scammy health care system. Though they don't offer an explanation, King County Republicans probably endorsed Mullet this cycle because of his vote against affirmative action, his efforts to open up multi-million-dollar tax loopholes for big businesses, his attempt to limit collective bargaining for teachers, his vote to water down a bill ensuring rest breaks for health care workers, his vote against a update to bill that prevented employees from asking applicants how much they've made in the past, his opposition to moderate proposals designed to fight climate change, and his allergy to taxing the rich—but honestly, what else would you expect form a former Bank of America executive? Vote Anderson. Look, Rep. Bill Ramos isn't going to go over well among the blood-red socialists in the anarchist jurisdictions of our fine state. The former Issaquah City Councilmember and transportation consultant seeking his second term in this Eastside seat made one thing clear during our meeting: He knows where the Devil is, and that's in the details. He's skeptical of legalizing apartments everywhere, he's skeptical of issuing a moratorium on highway expansions, and his major accomplishment during his first term amounted to a bill recognizing the timber industry's potential as an important partner in the fight against climate change. Uh huh. But whatever. He likes progressive taxation so long as we can use it to replace regressive taxation, he voted the right way on modest climate change legislation, and he's quick to admit when he hasn't done his homework on a topic, which is kinda refreshing. If re-elected, Ramos promises to work with other lawmakers in the Members of Color caucus to champion legislation that brings greater transparency and accountability to policing. He said he's especially interested in changing the culture of policing, and he wants more transparency around police misconduct. He came alive when talking about police reform, and we did, too. Ramos is running against a Republican goatee named Ken Moninski. Moninski, who's never held elected office, naturally opposes taxes on the rich, "policies from Seattle," and mask mandates. In a recent "episode" of his snoozy Facebook live series called "Ken Moninski: Unmasked," he called Loren Culp Washington's "great Republican candidate. Vote Ramos. We're not thrilled to have to pick between a landlord who racked up a handful of complaints and a longtime prosecutor who recently left his job as an HR guy at Amazon, but until we start paying people decent money to represent us in Olympia, it's going to keep being like this. In this case, however, David Hackney , the prosecutor who used to work at Amazon, promises to actually use the large majority Democrats already have to get shit done, unlike year incumbent Rep. Zack Hudgins, an incrementalist Democrat who promises to work to "bring Republicans along. On top of that, while Hudgins voted against modest eviction reforms , Hackney plans to champion tenant protections, including just cause and rent stabilization measures. Hudgins has admitted to supporting those policies too, now that he has a primary challenger. Hackney also backs single-payer health care, requiring independent authorities to investigate and prosecute cops who kill, and he vows to bring the energy of an organizer to this office. And as a Black man representing one of the most diversely populated districts in the state, Hackney would better reflect the demographics of the neighborhoods he wants to serve. Vote Hackney. Steve Bergquist was nearly late to our phone interview because he was at a meeting for the state's Core Plus program, which connects students with career training opportunities. That pretty much sums up his unflagging devotion to education. A social studies teacher, Bergquist fixed inequalities in state extracurricular programs, established a voter pre-registration system for teens, and improved job training to help paraeducators become credentialed teachers. And while education is a top concern, he's also heavily involved in the state budgeting process. He helped wrangle significant cost savings this year, chiefly from a freeze on hiring and travel, which made coronavirus-related budget constraints far less painful. His favorite book: Charlotte's Web , which he's currently reading to his daughter. Steve's opponent is Sean Atchison, a Republican and that a person could identify as a member of that party without shame is already disqualifying who says he opposes letting young people pre-register to vote because "this country started by only allowing property owners to vote because they owned a piece of the country. Atchison also opposes the state's comprehensive sex education bill because it would "prescribe" new parents for children. Vote Bergquist. Jamila Taylor, an attorney who specializes in domestic violence cases, wasn't particularly inspiring in our endorsement interview. Clearly, she's a suburban Democrat. But as a caregiver for her ill family members, Taylor's heart's in the right place around health care. She's also good on renter's issues, since she's been fucked over from rent hikes for years just like the rest of us. She's running against Republican Federal Way City Councilmember Martin Moore, whose whole thing is that he's tired of putting politics over people. Literally, the only thing listed on his issues page is that Democrats and Republicans should stop making things Democrat or Republican issues. Martin, now is not the time for this posturing. Now is past time, however, to send more Black women to the state Legislature. Vote Taylor. Despite the short session, Johnson passed bills to expand access to dental care and mental health services and to establish an environmental education program in high schools across the state. He'll continue focusing on health care, education, affordable housing, and supporting small businesses if he's re-elected. All things we can get behind. Johnson also served on the Black Caucus last session, and he's going to work with other members on police reform but not on defunding. His opponent, Mormon ice cream shop owner Jack Walsh, is running on a platform that just seems to be "don't allow pot stores in Federal Way. Vote Johnson. Cindy Ryu is frank in a way other legislators aren't when she levels with the SECB about the problems of trying to pass progressive taxes. Sure, we'd love a rosier outlook, but we're all for Ryu telling us like it is. Ryu says she's down for a capital gains tax. She's as good on housing as a commercial landlord could be, which means she wants to chip away at single-family zoning, believes in just-cause protections for tenants, but isn't on board with rent control. Ryu also wants us to be able to light up a J filled with greens we grew in our own window planter boxes. A vote for Ryu is a vote for homegrown weed. The biggest thing for us is her commitment to police reform. Ryu's record on policing is superb. She helped pass I, was part of the leadership team that established a joint legislative task force on community policing standards, and we're confident she'll add a necessary voice to the conversations around law enforcement next session. Vote Ryu. In her second term, Lauren Davis has big plans to plug state budget holes by passing legislation that would close tax preferences for the opioid industry, and by adding an opioid impact fee, which sound like good big plans to us. She also favors a capital gains tax, and she's hypothetically in favor of an income tax but pretty much only hypothetically. We're going to look past the fact that Davis still thinks marijuana is a gateway drug, and instead rest our blood-shot eyes on Davis's "non partisan party" opponent, Tamra Smilanich. Smilanich is a realtor and a perennial losing candidate who wants to "avoid a state income tax. Vote Davis. We're still excited about Rep. Tina Orwall. She's a former social worker who has been representing the 33rd Legislative District for 11 years. During that time she shed light on the state's rape kit backlog, where around 10, rape kits sat in storage, untested and gathering dust until she passed legislation to address the problem. After years of fighting for change, Orwall said around 5, of the 10, kits have been tested. She's also passed legislation to make suicide prevention trainings mandatory for all health care professionals even veterinarians! Currently, Orwall is working on implementing a program in South King County where new police officers will intern for social workers. The social workers will mentor the new cops about mental health and help integrate them into the fabric of communities the officers will serve. We'll see how well that works, but Orwall's optimistic. She's also committed to reshaping the structure of policing and investing in different models that prioritize mental and behavioral health. Social workers are ready and willing for this work, Orwall said, and they have been for a while. The funding just hasn't been there. Orwall's got a lot more in the works, such as addressing airplane fuel pollution and air quality in communities around airports. She's down for a capital gains tax, exploring expanding the estate tax, and making corporations pay their fair share. However, while she's open to the idea of decriminalizing sex work, Orwall wants to discuss the problem more. She's concerned about child sex trafficking going up if sex work is decriminalized, and cited some concerning child pornography stats in Washington. However, studies show that decriminalization actually brings down sex trafficking. Buuuttttt, moving on. We're still team Orwall. Vote Orwall.

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