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From the Sep 12 – Sep 18, 2002 issue

Election Glee Club Endorsements

Vote! Tuesday Sept 17

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Legislatures are like high schools--at least that's what legislators are always telling us. Pecking orders, cliques, freaks, geeks, jocks, stoners-- whoever people were in high school, that's who they are in Olympia or D.C. Only now the freaks, stoners, and jocks have budgets to write, staff members to exploit, and constituents to mollify.

So, everyone who met with the Stranger Election Glee Club was handed a four-page pop quiz and a #2 pencil. Here's what we wanted to know: GPA and SAT scores, favorite subjects, extracurricular activities, social status (loser? stoner? slut? prep? theater fag?), and how and with whom they lost their virginity. We're printing some pop-quiz answers under the candidates' high-school yearbook photos. We hope you, the voter, will use this teen data to make an informed choice about who you want to send to Olympia High and Washington D.C. High. (We can't fit all the info from the quizzes here in the paper. You'll have to go to www.thestranger.com/specials/quiz.html to find out if Dow Constantine, for example, was a stoner, a slut, or a drama fag.)

The Glee Club doesn't make endorsements in uncontested races. In some Seattle districts--like the 34th and 36th--there are no contested primaries, so look for our picks in those races in our general-election endorsement issue. In other Seattle districts, the primary is tantamount to the general election. The Democrats who win the nominations in the 11th and 37th, for example, will certainly be going to Olympia. If you live in those districts you MUST vote in the primary!