Credit: Courtesy of the Campaign

No contest here. Gina Topp, former chief legal counsel and policy advisor to King County Executive Dow Constantine, walked into our interview with a three-ring binder ready to talk about making real, measurable change to a district she had no problem criticizing.ย 

By comparison, her opponent, Maryanne Wood, said she entered the race because she was โ€œretiredโ€ and now had the time to take on โ€œa project.โ€ Woodโ€™s big beef with the district involved the construction of what she called โ€œmega-schools,โ€ and her primary problem with โ€œmega-schoolsโ€ mostly involved a lack of parking, lol. The third candidate, Rosie McCarter, didnโ€™t show, so we gave her an F.ย 

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