Many thoughts:

1) It’s ironic that the person advancing this staggered model is choosing to leave early to seek higher office. The change itself won’t guarantee retention or stability.

2) There are too many voter reform ideas hitting our election systems at once. Switch to council districts, to odd years, to ranked choice voting, to publicly funded (which has inflated the cost of those races considerably). This pile on of reforms doesn’t allow us to isolate what’s working and may be unsettling for voters with so much process switching.

3) Thank goodness DVP is up for reconsideration, let’s have a conversation about whether this is meeting our goals and whether the impacts (inflated election costs, funded campaign litter, elected effective candidates) is worth the economic and opportunity costs.

Council member likely bailing on her term early is concerned about turnover and maintaining programs after being pro activism and change throughout her tenure? Apparently the kind of logic that takes you places in King County. Only the best and brightest.

Why wouldn't she propose to align council elections with even year elections that show better turnout? That would have a much greater impact than this. Kinda funny this wasn't really an issue until the progressive platform started suffering from voter fatigue.

I don't get it. If they vote on every council seat at the same time, doesn't that mean that all of them will be looking for the bathroom at once?

The first two paragraphs are so confusing. Are you saying that Mosqueda's own proposal will be axed because it it would de-stabilize election turnover, which Mosqueda herself opposes because it destabilizes the council's ability to think? So Mosqueda is concerned about the disruption that her own proposal will cause? I'm so confused.

Isn't this just really an Incumbent Protection System, where the current incumbents up for election get all the credit for "passing" bills while the incumbents who don't need to run for 2 years say nice things about them, making it harder and harder and harder to replace incumbents?

Because, in the real world, that's how this works.

Stick to Presidential Election Year Primary and General elections, is my advice.

Everyone is hoping to forget about Harrel and stop the damage he has done to our city with his policies. We need new people in office now, not suburban and corporate lackeys who care nothing about Seattle citizens. Hopefully enough republicans will move back to Russia by November to see this city flourish to counter the extremism that's allowed this city to fall into a downtown-centric decay.

Heck, I know a few hundred, at least 6 live in my precinct and lots in many other locations. Maybe you should try having a diverse group of friends? I was having dinner with one of them at the SIFF Gala, for example.