voter owned elections

May 27, 2008 - 7:39pm

Voters Uninterested In Owning Elections

None of the King County Council members have announced which new tax will be directed toward funding political campaigns, nor have they addressed the problems that have accompanied public financing in other places; and there have been no news stories yet about the Town Meeting to discuss the King County Council’s proposal to have taxpayers pay for political campaigns.

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May 12, 2008 - 9:57am

Clean Elections

Now that we have the same top-two primary system that put Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in the gubernatorial race in Louisiana, the King County Council is hoping to impose the same "clean elections" system that allowed a candidate to fake signatures and go on a spending spree in Portland. Democracy is alive and well.

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