On this year’s ballot
Friday, May 16, 2014
By Evan Smith
These offices will be on Shoreline and Lake Forest Park ballots for the November general election. All partisan offices and any non-partisan offices with three or more candidates also will appear on the August primary ballot.
Candidates have been filing on line or in person at either the King County elections office in Renton or the secretary of state’s office in Olympia since Monday. Filing ended Friday.
Here are offices on 2014 ballots:
- U.S. Representative 7th Congressional District position now held by Democrat Jim McDermott – 2-year term
- State Senator—
- 32nd Legislative District position now held by Democrat Maralyn Chase (Shoreline, part of northwest Seattle, Lynnwood, Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County, and parts of Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace) -- 4-year term
- 46th Legislative District position now held by Democrat David Frockt (Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and northeast Seattle) -- 4-year term
- State Representative--
- 32nd Legislative District position 1, now held by Democrat Cindy Ryu – 2-year term
- 32nd Legislative District Position 2, now held by Democrat Ruth Kagi – 2-year term
- 46th Legislative District Position 1, now held by Democrat Gerry Pollet – 2-year term
- 46th Legislative District Position 2, now held by Democrat Jessyn Farrell– 2-year term
- King County Prosecuting Attorney position now held by Republican Dan Satterberg -- 4-year term
- State Supreme Court
- State Supreme Court Justice Position 1, non-partisan position now held by Mary Yu -- 2-year unexpired term (remainder of term that Jim Johnson resigned)
- State Supreme Court Justice Position 3, non-partisan position now held by Mary Fairhurst – 6-year term
- State Supreme Court Justice Position 4, non-partisan position now held by Charles W. Johnson – 6-year term
- State Supreme Court Justice Position 7, non-partisan position now held by Debra Stephens – 6-year term
- Court of Appeals
- Court of Appeals, Division No. 1, District No. 1, Position 1, non-partisan position now held by Michael Trickey – unexpired 2-year term
- Court of Appeals, Division No. 1, District No. 1, Position 5, non-partisan position now held by Linda Lau – 6-year term
- Court of Appeals, Division No. 1, District No. 1, Position 1, non-partisan position now held by Ann Schindler – 6-year term
- King County Superior Court
- King County Superior Court, Position 8, non-partisan position now held by John Ruhl -- unexpired 2-year term
- King County Superior Court, Position 18, non-partisan position now held by John H. Chun -- unexpired 2-year term
- King County Superior Court, Position 27, non-partisan position now held by Tanya Thorp -- unexpired 2-year term
- King County Superior Court, Position 34, vacant non-partisan position -- unexpired 2-year term
- King County Superior Court, Position 37, non-partisan position now held by Julia Garratt-- unexpired 2-year term
- King County Superior Court, Position 47, non-partisan position now held by Roger Rogoff-- unexpired 2-year term
- Shoreline District Court
- Shoreline District Court Judge Position 1, non-partisan position now held by Douglas J Smith– 4-year term
- Shoreline District Court Judge Position 2, non-partisan position now held by Marcine Anderson -- 4-year term
- Precinct Committee Officers
- PCO for Democratic Party, all precincts – 2-year term
- PCO for Republican Party, all precincts – 2-year term
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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6 comments:
Why promote the incumbents?
I don't thiink "now held by" is promotiing the incumbennts. In fact, it is the best way to identiify the positions. Naming positionss 1 or 2 in your city council or dixtrict court or legislative dstriict means nothing without the name. I had written this for the South Snohomishh County Politics blog at the begining of filing week but didn't revise for Shoreline until after it got posted on the South County blog. I have one story about the 32nd Districtal already on the South County Politics blog that I will post here in a day or two and another that will post here after my editor at the Herald has posted it.
@Evan,
You could have named the other candidates. By refraining from doing so, you effectively promote the incumbents, whether you intend to or not. To report, for example, that Jim McDermott's position in the US House is on the ballot this year, is to make the story about McDermott, rather than the 7th Congressional District. Far more informative, and less promotional would be to describe the boundary of the 7th, which has changed a lot since the last election. Similarly, the boundaries of the 32nd Legislative District have changed significantly. It no longer includes Lake Forest Park (former home to Ruth Kagi), Kenmore, and Kirkland, and now includes the Broadview (new home to Ruth Kagi) neighborhood of Seattle. Yes, my post is admittedly demotional, for balance.
@9:13 - You make a good argument, but you forgot to mention the 32nd also lost Bothell.
Remember, I wrote this before filing week. It appeared here late bcause the South Snohomsh County Politics blog is my first priority.
Already, I have written three stories on who was running against whom on the South Snohomish County Politics blog. They wil show up here eventually. One is about Sen. Chase's oppoents, another about Rep. Ryu's lack of opposition. Both will appear here.
The redistricting was more the story of the 2012 election, the first elrction.
2012 was the first election after the 2011 redistricting commission completed its work. The 32nd Legislative District never did include Bothell, which remains in the 1st LD, as it had from 1992 through 2011. What the 32nd LD lost after 2011 was Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, the north end of Kirkland and unincorporated areas of King County berween Kenmore and Kirkland. What it gained was the City of Lynnwood,.part of Mountlake Terrace and that tiny corner of northwest Seattle where Rep. Kagi happened to own rental property that happened to become vacant about the time that candidates filed to run in the 2012 election.
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