Was tootling around the Public Disclosure Commission's site just now (trying to find who was donating what to People for Tesoro Savage) and noticed some interesting tidbits about the District 3 Co. Commissioner race.
Namely, the most interesting thing about the race is why a person who (I don't think) is running, Steve Stuart (now City Manager at Ridgefield) has raised $7800 in campaign funds for said race (according to the PDC). I'm assuming that he's given the donations back?
The other tidbit is the GOP candidate - Jeanne Stewart. Yes, THAT Jeanne Stewart - the one "gaveled down" by Councilmember Jeanne Harris during her public comment time at a Vancouver City Council meeting (for which Lew Waters is busy dragging her, and that lovely moment, out of the grave in his recent posts).
Stewart, basically a conservative's conservative (and beloved by said folk in Clark County) is pretty much a non-starter with voters here in District 3. Remember, said district includes all voters in the Couv WEST of 205/136th SE, with a small slice of Hazel Dell. This is a district that went 61% for Dem state rep Jim Moeller in the last election.
Nor has Stewart raised much money - $5K as opposed to $11,800 for Craig Pridemore, her Dem opponent. The PDC strangely enough didn't list any funds for the other two possible candidates, including Ed Barnes (the most likely one to run against Pridemore in a primary).
Unless Madore & Mielke are going to fatten Stewart with a cash infusion post-primary, my guess is that Pridemore will have an easy time of it (provided he's not in any sort of primary challenge). Having said that, I do wonder if M&M are setting Stewart up as a stalking horse to draw votes off, with a more conservative-than-Pridemore indie candidate waiting in the wings til fall to announce.
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