This is great news! Carr deserves a challenge, and Holmes has been a great public interest advocate the last few years.

I am SO excited that Mr. Holmes is running against Tom Carr. This is great news!

Yay! Time to get Carr out of office. Enough is enough.

carr is a first-rate polarizing figure. I had the displeasure of interacting with him, and he is anti-dislosure,anti-law (if they don't suit his cause) and quite pompus.
He would gleefully trample all over the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights if it meant protecting Seattle employees from wrongdoing. Out with Carr!!!

Lawyer elections are tough as challenging the established hegemony of your local court is a quick way to start losing cases.

As such accountability, as in checks and balances, etc, is very tough. It is more important that we have ways of removing bad Judges and bad Prosecutors than it is to be focusing on bad cops - an important, but lesser priority.

These problems are very historic in nature. FWIW, Mayor Nickels career marks a reinvention of these problems under the guise of reform. In my opinion we've ended up with something worse, though to be sure for many minorities that is most definitely not the case.

As to spoiled white women, who cares?

Transparency is the key word in support of and demand for Pete Holmes to become our lead City Attorney. I have the upmost respect for Pete having worked with him on Police Accountability. He is fair, honest, mentally very quick and he has real integrity. David Goodenough

I believe Mr. Carr supported the various ordinances because he had an obligation to do so as the City's lawyer.

Sort of like prosecuting shoplifters.

Yes, Johnnie Green, you tell 'em. Most of the regular Stranger readership are ignorant, dope-smoking, prostitute-patronizing, cop-hating, over-boozing bunch of reprobates. Not to mention this author and the editor being a shoplifter!!! Erica, Puhlease! You should read tghe City Charter before you write an article about a completely ineligible and unqualified candidate for City Attorney such as Holmes.