Paul Queary

The Affordable Housing Council, a separate PAC, is the single largest donor to the independent PAC backing incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, which currently enjoys a lopsided cash advantage over challenger Katie Wilson.

The PAC Bruce Harrell for Seattle’s Future has now raised more than $1 million, mostly from some of the region’s deepest political pockets and richest citizens. Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle, the PAC backing the progressive challenger, has pulled in just $86,000.

When you rescue some starving news strays from the mean streets, as KCTS did with Crosscut, you should feed them up into a pack of ferocious new-school newshounds, not turn them into an expendable backwater of your moribund 20th-century organization.

Bruce Harrell for Seattle’s Future has raised more than $772,000 thus far, including about $470,000 since Harrell finished 18,000 votes behind Katie Wilson in the primary. Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle, meanwhile, has raised just $41,000 so far, per recent filings with the Public Disclosure Commission.

Conservative megadonor Brian Heywood’s ballot measure machine is cranking up again.

Two closely-watched D-on-D matchups for seats in the Legislature were going the progressive candidate’s way.

Most importantly, Gov. Ferguson didn’t veto any significant part of the budget package and force lawmakers back to Olympia for a deeper round of cuts to both spending and taxes. In fact, he didn’t veto anything of real consequence.

Republicans who were looking for bipartisan cooperation on major issues of budgeting and taxation have been largely disappointed thus far.

We offer this selection of victors from this year’s session with the caveat that we know very little about Gov. Bob Ferguson’s enthusiasm for the veto pen.

In a move likely to prove popular with Elon Musk haters, House Democrats passed a tax on the sale of zero-emission vehicle credits, which will fall almost entirely on Tesla in the short term.