John Wyble, the consultant for Seattle City Council candidate Bobby Forch, tells me that one of Forch’s vanquished primary opponents, anti-tunnel candidate Michael Taylor-Judd, has endorsed Forch and will be making a formal announcement sometime later today.

It will be interesting to see what rationale Taylor-Judd, who made tunnel opposition a centerpiece of his campaign, uses for endorsing Forch, who Wyble says voted to build the tunnel in the recent primary election.

As for the import of this endorsement: It’s useful for Forch, of course, but if you add Forch’s primary take (26.01 percent) to Taylor-Judd’s primary take (12.71 percent), you get 37.1 of the electorate. Granted, the primary electorate is different than the general electorate, but that’s still not enough to beat incumbent Jean Godden—it’s not even enough to beat Godden’s low, 43.42 percent primary showing.

UPDATE: Taylor-Judd, in his endorsement of Forch, says: “Bobby is a strong leader who will stand up for everyone in our community and represent our progressive values. I ran for office because I believe we need leaders who understand and speak to social and environmental justice issues. Bobby shares these values and has my vote and full support.”

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4 replies on “Michael Taylor-Judd Endorses Bobby Forch”

  2. “I ran for office because I believe we need leaders who understand and speak to social and environmental justice issues. Bobby shares these values and has my vote and full support.”

    Funny, I thought MTJ ran for office to protest the tunnel. How does someone who voted for the tunnel align with MTJ?

  4. Anyone who thinks I ran for office as a protest against the tunnel wasn’t paying much attention to anything I actually said on the campaign trail.

    The bottom line is that Jean Godden needs to go, and clearly neither myself or Maurice Classen are the ones to replace her.

    Bobby and I may not agree on 100% of the issues… but we agree with each other on much more than we agree with Jean — who has been terrible on transit issues, a failure on budget issues, and lacks a vision for developing a 21st century city.

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