Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Post primary follow-up

Primary election results    August 8-2-18



     I still have a lot to learn about how to use this bog technology, but I'm working on it.                                                                                                                                                                            

      Most of the results are in from the primary and that "blue wave" they've been talking about has apparently washed over Island County - even though turnout was abysmal. Hey, where were you all? Right, you're the ones who account for the numbers we did get. Please, before the November election, get on all your friends, neighbors, co-workers, anybody, and make sure they understand just how important it is to speak out, via the ballot, on who runs our country and how.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 I have underlined and put in red those names you will see on the November ballot. For all but one race (the Court of Appeals) the votes are in my favor (yours too, I hope). I will comment on individual races below.                                                                                                                                    
Island County voter turnout:  32.64%

Senate
No surprise here, Maria Cantwell takes more than 50% of the vote and a distant second is the Trump loving Susan Hutchison. Expect the dark money machine to go into overdrive on this race. What really bothers me is that Joey Gibson, the Nazi who just staged yet another riot complete with guns in Portland, got as many votes as he did.

Thor Amundson          0.58%
Dave Strider                0.4%
Joey Gibson                2.33%
Mike Luke                  0.7%
GoodSpaceGuy           0.44%
Clint  Tannehill           1.94%
Maria Cantwell           55.45%
Susan Hutchison         23.83%
Brad Chase                  0.14%
Tim Owen                   1.49%
Matthew Heines          0.5%
Sam Wright                 0.23%
Art Coday                   1.63%
John Orlinski               0.41%
Charlie Jackson           0.15%
Keith Swank                2.34%
Alex Tsimerman          0.09%
R C Smith                    0.14%
Don Rivers                   0.7%
Jennifer Gigi Ferguson    1.12%
Steve Hoffman            0.37%
George Kalberer          0.16%
Jimmie Deal                0.22%
Rocky De La Fuente        0.35%
Jon Butler                    0.13%
Dave Bryant                2.05%
Mohammad Said         0.5%
Matt Hawkins              0.79%
Glen Stockwell            0.78%

total votes excluding write-ins: 1,033,461

House, District 2
This one is downright shameful. Sure, Rick has a vast lead, but the fact that his opponent in November is Uncle Mover, who files for every election just to advertise his business, that's just plain pathetic. Given the very small differences, the second name could change before its over. I don't know how many votes are left to count.

Collin Richard Carlson    7.48%
Uncle Mover                    7.61%
Brian Luke                       7.2%
Stoney Jackson                3.9%
Rick Larsen                     66.25%
Gary Franco                     7.55%

total votes excluding write-ins: 95,340

Legislative District 10

position #1
This is a total shock and delightful surprise. We all thought Norma was invincible. There's still the November election to go, and no doubt the dark $$ will be pouring in, but this is so encouraging.

Scott McMullen        51.27%
Norma Smith            48.73%


position #2
I'm less surprised at Dave Paul's big win, given that he is eloquent and accustomed to speaking in public, but I'm equally delighted. Way to go!

Dave Paul                53.49%
Dave Hayes             46.51%


total votes excluding write-ins:  26,416


State Court of Appeals
This is our one serious potential loss. We're all seeing at the federal level just how vitally important our courts are. I'm going to put Seguine's lead down to sheer ignorance on the part of most people, and the fact that he and the Skagit Republicans did tons of advertising. While I was rooting for Rita Latsinova, Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez came highly recommended and has a positive history. I'll be getting behind her as best I can, and hope others will as well.

Tom Seguine                             28.1%
Lisa Keeler                                23.19%
Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez     23.21%
Roger Leishman                        9.85%
Rita Latsinova                           15.65%

total votes excluding write-ins: 64,818


Island County Commissioner, district 3
Yay Janet! Way to go! In spite of the mean-spirited letter to the editor in the last News-Times, its clear that the majority of people are tired of the same old same old.

Rick Hannold            48.24%
Janet St Clair             51.76%


Island County Sheriff
I've been making a study of whose political signs are grouped together. Notice the large signs in the field between Bayview and Freeland. Standing together are the signs for Rick Hannold and Lane Campbell. Even aside from Mr Campbell's serious case of foot-in-mouth, that juxtaposition tells me a lot. I think we'll do better with Mr Felici as sheriff.

Lane Campbell        47.7%
Rick Felici               52.3%



Ballot measures
These were obvious no-brainers and it looks like most everybody agrees. Ok, that's done.

EMS levy
yes                69.22%
no                 30.78%


South Whidbey Parks & Rec levy
yes                74.5%
no                 25.5%

2 comments:

  1. Marianne - Love the commentary. I do take issue though with your concern about the turnout. If the Island County estimate of the remaining ballots to be counted is accurate, turnout will be in the 47% range. And that is not abysmal. In fact, when comparing to the 37% turnout in 2014, that is a major gain.

    Digging in a little deeper to the numbers, there will be 38.8% more ballots cast in this 2018 primary election (~26,000) vs. the 2014 primary election (18,789).

    SC

    P.S. And yes, of course I agree that turnout should be +90%.

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