Paul Queary, a veteran AP reporter and editor, is founder of The Washington Observer, an independent newsletter on politics, government and the influence thereof in Washington State.
A large, hard-to-trace donation comes from Washington Rising, which isn’t registered as a political committee with the Public Disclosure Committee, nor did we find it listed in the Secretary of State’s data on Washington corporations and charities.
A new infusion of $103,000 in support of Mayor Bruce Harrell brings the PAC’s spending on the mayor's race to $1.3 million overall, nearly all of which went to try to scrub new-candidate shine off Wilson.
Ports, especially major ports such as Tacoma, are often hot arenas for a variety of political fights on issues ranging from labor rights to environmental protection.
Will the Harrell side’s attack work? Harrell finished 18,000 votes behind in the primary, and the bettors on the prediction market Kalshi still peg Katie Wilson as a prohibitive favorite.
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.