This post is a response to this Facebook comment, in which a friend and fellow Democrat asked me to expand on an earlier comment of mine about ranked-choice voting. A group in Seattle is currently gathering signatures for a ballot measure that would introduce ranked-choice voting in Seattle elections, and one of the proponents had posted this statement: When I …
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Hi there, voters! As a rule, I didn’t personally endorse candidates or campaigns while I was Chair of the 43rd District Democrats—I just referred people to the 43rd’s endorsements page, and kept quiet if the district made an endorsement I disagreed with. (It would have been confusing if the 43rd District Democrats had endorsed one candidate and their leader had …
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I’ve told this story to a number of people, and now that the primary’s over I can share it with everyone. One sunny afternoon last May I was doorbelling on Capitol Hill, and knocked on the door of a house whose owner was hosting a charity fundraiser in her back yard. I was invited in, and spent about twenty minutes talking …
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