Cafferty, Scantlebury both plan to seek Eggen seat on Shoreline city council
Friday, April 10, 2015
By Evan Smith
Shoreline City Council candidates Jessica Cafferty and Ginny Scantlebury both plan to seek the position that Councilman Chris Eggen now holds.
Shoreline City Council candidates Jessica Cafferty and Ginny Scantlebury both plan to seek the position that Councilman Chris Eggen now holds.
Both have registered with the state Public Disclosure Commission as candidates for the position.
Eggen has not yet said whether he would seek a third four-year term.
Candidates file for ballot position May 11-15. Any position with three or more candidates will appear on the Aug. 4 primary ballot with two advancing to the Nov. 3 general election. Positions with only one or two candidates appear only on the November ballot.
The position is one of three on 2015 Shoreline City ballots. Councilman Jesse Salomon has declared an intention to seek a second term. Councilwoman Doris McConnell has yet to say whether she will run.
Current City Planning Commissioner Keith Scully has registered with the PDC as a council candidate without declaring a position.
Incumbent Councilman Salomon has reported raising $21,087 and spending $1,767. Cafferty, program manager for the Women’s Funding Alliance in Seattle, has raised $9,015 and spent $327. Scantlebury, an unsuccessful 2013 candidate for a position on the Ronald Wastewater District board, reports no fundraising or spending.
Reach Evan Smith at schsmith@frontier.com
Updated 04-11-2015 12:13am
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Cafferty and Scantlebary do not seek Eggen's seat. They seek Position 2, which is currently held by Eggen. Semantics matter. Until Eggen chooses to run, he has no opponents. Even then, he can run for Position 4, which is currently held by McConnell. He probably wouldn't run aganist her, but if she opts out, he might go for it, depending on who else is interested. In that turn of events, it would be even more meaningless to say these candidates seek Eggen's seat. Also, you left out Keith Scully, who seeks a position on the council, but not anyone's seat.
Does anyone know Cafferty's official position on the light rail station rezoning plans? Unless she is willing to defend our neighborhoods and work extremely hard to scale back zoning to something more moderate and can the PAO, she will not be getting my vote.
Most definitely NOT voting for Jesse Salomon after what he supported for the 185th St Plan. Afterwards, he even had the nerve to send out a letter soliciting campaign donations with some braggertly spiel that self-aggrandized his actions on March 16th. He is not a friend of the environment and not a protector of the environmental assets in Shoreline. People in the affected areas (giant areas WAY BEYOND the future light rail stations) asked politely for moderate density. Once these polite requests were ignored they got angry and demanded you listen. You didn't listen, now we're angry, we're extremely angry, and now we aren't going away. We've been told over and over again that if we don't like the proposed plans for our neighborhood, that we "can just move". Well, maybe any council members who had a hand in approving these haphazard plans "can just move". Save yourself some campaign donor money, people. Leave, move, get out of the way, and make way for those who truly give a flying fox about the people they're supposed to represent. Heed this advice now and save yourself some embarrassment come November.
Yes, would like to know how the candidates stand on the light rail issue. How do we find that out?
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