Seattle Forward (SeaFor), former Council President Sara Nelson’s new dark money pseudo PAC, just dropped $30,000 into the District 5 City Council race to support the conservative lane candidate, Julie Kang. And I don’t say “dark money” lightly. SeaFor was explicitly designed as a back channel to avoid pesky campaign finance transparency laws, blatantly promising to conceal the identity of its conservative donors. If you think that sounds like it’s against the rules, you’re no

Big business has spent a jaw dropping $410,000 in independent expenditures to defend Rep. Amy Walen (D-Kirkland) against progressive challenger Jessica Forsythe. That’s on top of hundreds of corporate donations padding the stunning $395,000 her campaign has raised itself. Walen earned big business’s loyalty as one of the handful of Democrats to vote against the Millionaires Tax last session, arguably against the will of her constituents who broadly support taxing the rich to

Ferry service has returned mostly to normal after 23 ferry engine room workers called out sick, shutting down 13 out of 18 vessels on Monday. While there’s no official confirmation workers coordinated these absences to flex their collective power to their bosses, Washington State ferries appeared to try and squash sympathies for the union ferry workers by publishing the tippy top of their highest paid worker’s possible salary if they were constantly overworked: $350,000. This