{"id":24673,"date":"2007-10-26T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/10\/26\/the-king-county-council-race-gets-even-stranger\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T10:00:01","slug":"the-king-county-council-race-gets-even-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20071026-01\/?p=24673","title":{"rendered":"The King County Council race gets even stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/09\/03\/4712713.aspx\"> I told you it was going to get weird<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> In the month since my last report, there have been a few developments in the county council race between an accused drunk (the incumbent) and a fringe candidate (the challenger). <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     The incumbent admitted     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003895009_hague21m.html\">     having approved biographical information in which a bachelor&#8217;s degree     was claimed<\/a>,     shortly after previously vehemently denying that any such     r&eacute;sum&eacute; inflation had taken place. <\/li>\n<li>     The incumbent     filed a campaign disclosure notice     revealing a $50,000 contribution to the campaign.     The challenger then filed a complaint on the grounds that     the contribution exceeded the legal limit.     The incumbent then claimed     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003903446_hague26m.html\">     that the notice was filed in error and no such contribution was made<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The challenger     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cache:seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/election2007\/2003906450_pope27m.html\">     will not have the support of the party he nominally belongs to<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The incumbent     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cache:seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/election2007\/2003906447_hague27m.html\">     agreed to pay a $8,000 fine<\/a>     for campaign finance violations. <\/li>\n<li>     The incumbent&#8217;s pretrial hearing for drunk driving     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003917421_webhague01.html\">     has been delayed until after the election<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The incumbent&#8217;s party     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003930983_elexotherpope07m.html\">     tries to draw attention away from their candidate for a little while<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/\"> <i>The Seattle Times<\/i><\/a> tries to summarize the state of the race with a series of articles: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/politics\/2003970971_elexother0pope24m.html\">Profile of the challenger<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/politics\/2003970969_elexother0haguemoney24m.html\">Recap of incumbent&#8217;s campaign finances<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/politics\/2003973496_elexother0hague25m.html\">The story so far<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you it was going to get weird. In the month since my last report, there have been a few developments in the county council race between an accused drunk (the incumbent) and a fringe candidate (the challenger). The incumbent admitted having approved biographical information in which a bachelor&#8217;s degree was claimed, shortly after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-24673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I told you it was going to get weird. In the month since my last report, there have been a few developments in the county council race between an accused drunk (the incumbent) and a fringe candidate (the challenger). 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