12:56 a.m. — Cake's gone, Champagne's gone, We're gone

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11:35 pm — Issaquah!

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Liveslogger's aunt, who lives in Issaquah, has apparently been defeated in her race for city council. Liveslogger regrets that she was not aware that her aunt was running for Issaquah city council, and she wishes a pox on her aunt's triumphant opponent, the incumbent Bill Conley--whoever he is.

 

11:30 — The Best Fucking Thing Ever

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From the comfort of the Mirabeau Room, Party Crasher takes a slow sip of whiskey and wraps up a long night on the Party Bus:

Music for America is an organization dedicated to mobilizing 14-30 year olds, who will soon become the biggest voting bloc in the nation, through the music industry, using the same tactics that the right has used in mobilizing religious voters. Their Party Bus hit nine parties tonight, and consumed or stole more than 50 beers (not including Party Crasher's nine beers and 1.5 lbs of finger-food). Toward the end of the night, one Party Bus rider, standing on the sidewalk, raised his arms above his head, and shouted: "Local Politics is the best fucking thing ever!" Then, he pointed at some passersby, and shouted, "Did you vote you pussies?"

King County Councilmember Dow Constantine, who got on the bus en route with a lovely female companion, said: "It was everything I hoped it would be." And if what he hoped was to get drunk with a lot young, cute, politically minded girls, then Party Crasher can attest that he probably got what he was looking for.

Jim, the bus driver, smiling and shaking his head at all this, gave a thumbs up as he dropped everyone back off at the Mirabeau Room. "You guys are great, keep up the good work," he said. Then he headed back to Renton, his bus littered with Kid Valley bags and stashed empty Corona bottles.

 

11:28 - Sexy, sexy school board

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All three of our school board picks are winning as the night winds down:

Mary Bass has a solid 53% to Jane Fellner's 47%. Cheryl Chow's pulling in a strong 56% to Linda Thompson-Black's 44%. And Michael DeBell, running against the Astrid Adair Gielen, is kicking butt with 73%.

 

11:15 — "You Guys Keep Rockin"

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"We just went to the Drago Party at the Seattle Glassblowing Studio," Party Crasher reports from the Party Bus. "It was the hippest and most party-like of all. Lots of faux mink coats and interesting hairstyles, several white people with dredlocks — what more do you need for a party?" As they were leaving Drago's place, he says, a lot of Party Bus riders could be seen shoving Coronas into their pockets and carrying out double-fists of cake.

A white-bread guy in a suit saw them and shouted, "You guys keep on rockin!"

Then they went to the Casey Corr party at T.S. McHugh's, which was "maudlin," said Party Crasher. When Party Crasher announced he was from The Stranger, he was confronted by Corr's brother, who demanded to know whether Party Crasher supports this paper's stance on Corr. Ever the good guest, Party Crasher dodged, saying simply that he is a journalist whose main concern is reporting on the quality and timbre of parties. Still, he said, "The general mood after I identified myself was hateful and teeth-bared."

Some of the Party Bus riders then asked to have their picture taken with Corr. His response: "I don't think so."

"So now, we are going into the Mirabeau, where we are wanted," Party Crasher said.

 

11:10 pm -- King County Results

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The latest from King County:

Mayor:

Nickels: 64 %
Runte: 35%

Monorail:

YES: 36 %
NO: 64 %

King County Exec:

Sims: 56 %
Irons: 40 %
Lange: 5 %

City Council:

Conlin: 60 %
Miller: 40 %

Drago: 62 %
Corr: 37 %

Licata: 76 %
Bascomb: 23 %

McIver: 53 %
Pelz: 47 %

 

11:05 - Cake is in the house.

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The Drago cake is here. Dan has calmed down. (And someone has popped a bottle of Champagne!)

 

11:05 pm -- Runte's HQ

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Brendan Kiley reports from Rock Salt:

Runte's party and numbers seem stagnant, so I hopped across Westlake Ave to a house where hoodied youngsters and good old rock 'n' roll spilled out of the open door. I walked through the door into an empty vestibule, then hallway, then room, where a group of 30 (about the size of the Runte party) were grooving to an art punk trio from Sacramento called the Brilliant Red Lights. They were great! A young man next to me asked who I was and I said I was covering Al Runte's campaign across the street for The Stranger. He smiled and nodded. I stayed for two songs of lovely, life-affirming music before slipping back to Runte's lugubrious party, where new numbers had just come in--63.7 Nickels to 35.3 Runte.

Would-be mayor Runte began a speech. Some quotes: "We are the party of labor, of the environment, of civil rights. How we have let that slip away from us… Thank all of you who worked on this campaign, and all of you who turned out. This campaign has been so much fun. We started late, but next time--if there is a next time, and who knows--we may win this election. We will start earlier… If Mayor Nickels has won this election, he's earned it--because we made him earn it… What made this country great is not coronations, but elections…. As Teddy Roosevelt said, 'If you don't like what you see in the mirror, throw your hat in the ring.' "

[Ed. note: Teddy Roosevelt never mixed metaphors like that. The actual quote: "My hat's in the ring."]

There was a standing ovation. Then Runte sat down. I sat next to him. He and someone in a three-piece suit whose name I didn't catch discussed launching a Runte blog. "You're a good writer," Three-Piece Suit said. "And you've got things to say."

 

11:00 — Final Statewide Results: Gas Tax Repeal Down, Audits and Smoking Ban Up

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State measures:

I-900, Performance Audits:
Passing 57% to 43%

I-901, Smoking Ban:
Passing 63% to 37%

I-912, Gas Tax Repeal:
Failing, 48% to 52%

 

10:50 — Meinert Getting Belligerent

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In response to our description, below, of the anti-monorail people being "all gray hair and smugness," Meinert fired off this e-mail from the Mirabeau Room:

Listen you pro-monorail fucks, not all the anti-monorail folks are old white people. Some of us are just middle-aged (40ish?) white people. Who think lying about size and economics matters. Maybe you are all used to lying about both, but it obviously didn't fly, so the people now voted against a bad plan with bad financing. Sometimes the people think and are smart. Even when the politicos lie to them. So there. Thanks god Seattle Center will stay the largest park in the inner city and not become a transportation corridor!

Thanks, Dave. We'll have one of what you're having...

UPDATE: Dan Savage here, Dave. Look, you anti-monorail bullshit artist, the "politicos" were never for the monorail. It was the people who backed it, the people who voted four times. Now the people have rejected it, and that's that. But no transportation project could survive the attacks and double standards that the monorail project has had to deal with. So I wonder, Dave: The people you're praising tonight for their smarts? Were they dumb the first four times they voted? The lies were from the anti-camp, Dave, not the pro, and the collective weight of lies eventually doomed the plan. You know, it's easy to pick something apart, much harder to put something together. And here we are, no closer to rapid transit in this city, thanks to visionless, pro-sprawl, anti-urbanist, small-minded fuckwits like you. Cheers!

 

10:25 — Drinks on the House

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With Nick Licata grabbing 3 votes for every 1 vote that's going to his opponent, Paul Bascomb, people at the Mirabeau Room are calling for drinks on the house. No word yet of whether the bartenders have complied, but Nick sure looks happy:

 

11:22 - From the Forums

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Yeah, especially that Joel Horn character. I don't care if he resigned. I think the pro-monorail camp ought to throw him a party. And by 'throw him a party' I mean 'sue him for overpaying himself and wasting city resources.'

Gomezticator, in the forums, responding to Dave Meinert's "Maybe SMP was just plain stupid. How about that one? Run by incompetent nincompoops. Ever think of that?" rant.

 

10:20 pm — Results

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Mayor:

Nickels: 63%
Runte: 36%

Monorail:

YES: 35%
NO: 65%

City Council:

Conlin: 60%
Miller: 40%

Drago: 62%
Corr: 38%

McIver: 53%
Pelz: 47%

Licata: 76%
Bascomb: 24%

State measures:

I-900, Performance Audits:
Passing 57% to 43%

I-901, Smoking Ban:
Passing 63% to 37%

I-912, Gas Tax Repeal:
Failing, 48% to 52%

 

10:10 p.m. — "Al Runte Should Celebrate"

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"Al should celebrate," writes Dave Meinert from the party at the Mirabeau Room. "And Nickels should be scared. At this party we have two council members who could have trounced Nickels. His stripper ban is so silly it makes me think he goes out of town for lap dances. People here are already planning on running Licata for mayor in '09. He'll be married and even fiercer. Watch out you Sidranesque mayoral staff. The people ain't going to stand for your white-bread doughboy bullshit when there is a real candidate to stand up to it."

Don't bottle up your feelings, Dave, it's not healthy. Let it all out. Tell us how you really feel.

 

10:05 p.m. — Great Results

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Four drinks and many miles since he left the Mirabeau Room earlier tonight, Party Crasher has resurfaced at the Westin Hotel, from whence he reports:

"The anti-Monorail party is just what you would figure: All gray hair and smugness. The room is about the size of a studio apartment, which most of the partiers haven't seen in years. Ron Sims's room, meanwhile, is packed and ballroom-size, and Sims is smiling widely even though he's only up by seven points against David Irons.

Party Bus riders have determined that the No on 912 party here has free drinks, and now they are drinking very liberally.

Just a minute ago at the No on 912 party, a middle aged woman was flipping through the channels, looking for more voting returns, when she accidentally flipped into a hardcore porn channel. Suddenly the screen showed a woman astride a man, her breasts bouncing. "Oh my," the woman with the remote said, and continued flipping.

In response to which one of the Party Bus riders shouted: "No, no, no! I think those are great results. It looks like Ron Sims is winning."

 

10 pm — Al Runte HQ

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Brendan reports from the Al Runte party, where there's no internet access:

The campaign manager and I have been calling the results via cell phone. I was sitting at a table with Runte and called in the latest (36.75% Runte, 62.47% Nickels). Stony silence. "But that's only 14 percent of the registered voters," I added. Runte stood. "That's great!" he shouted, waving his arms in the air. The high school Dem zealots enthusiastically hashed over school board results in the background. I drifted to another table and chatted with a lovely old woman who "had memory loss." I gave her the results. We talked about our marital status--me single, her divorced--and her three daughters. She said she was supporting Runte because she met him at the Burgermaster in the University Village. "I go there every day. He does too." She paused. "So what are the election results?" she asked. "And are you single?"

It's very odd here.

 

10:00 p.m. — Mmmm... Cake

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Dan Savage just put in a call to Jan Drago at her party. He congratulated her on her victory, and praised her for stomping Casey Corr, AKA "The Mayor's Boy." But really he just wanted to ask about the cake.

Savage loves cake, and the sight of a great big cake made him hungry. And Savage needs a little sugar to cheer him up, what with the monorail going down. So he asked Jan if she could have some of the cake sent up to the Stranger HQ.

"Well, we want to cut it, but we were waiting for one more batch of numbers to come in," Drago said. "But we'll do that. We've got to figure out how to get it up to you guys." Turning to her campaign manager, Drago said, "Erin, The Stranger wants some cake! We've got to figure out how to get it up to them!"

Savage broke in: "Jan, we'll send someone down to pick it up. You don't have to run it up here yourself."

Amy Jenniges was duly dispatched to Drago's party to pick up some cake.

UPDATE: At 10:15 PM, Erin Thurston, Drago's campaign manager, called The Stranger's office and asked if someone was coming to get the cake they set aside for The Stranger. Savage told her that Amy Jenniges was on her way, platter in hand. Check back here for more updates on the cake.

SECOND UPDATE: It's 10:30 and Savage is losing it. "If that cake isn't in this office in ten minutes," he's screaming, "we're pulling our Drago endorsement!"

 

9:55 — Corr Still Optimistic

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Casey Corr may be down by 20 points in his race against Jan Drago, but he just told Amy Jenniges he's still optimistic. However, Amy wonders if this spread and set of empty chairs is really the sign of an optimistic party:

Drago not only has 20 points on Corr but she also has cake at her party—plenty of yummy, yummy sheet cake.

 

9:50 — A Retort from the Mirabeau Room

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Dave Meinert writes from the Mirabeau Room, responding to Cindi Laws's quote in the "More Monorail Wake" post:

Here at the Licata party. Most people here are pro-monorail, but Cindi Laws's comment on the anti-monorail campaign's "Rovian-Atwater-Rush Limbaugh tactics" is making people guffaw. First she had her Jewish conspiracy, now it's the right-wing conspiracy. Maybe SMP was just plain stupid. How about that one. Run by incompetent nincompoops. Ever think of that?

 

9:45 pm — No on 912 Party

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Sarah Fischer reports from the No on 912 party. No on 912 spokesperson Andrew Villanueve says "The results are looking better than we'd ever hoped." He explains that it's neck and neck in swing counties like Clark; and the anti-tax measure isn't passing by as big a margin as they'd feared in hostile counties. They don't have the complete numbers, so they don't want to call the race, but they're optimistic.

Fischer says everyone is glued to the TV but people are enjoying themselves. It's "much peppier" than the monorail party. Catering report: Starbucks coffee and your typical fruit and cheese platter.

UPDATE: 912 is currently going down: 50.7% no, 49.3% yes.

 

9:30 — Drago Looking Good

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Amy Jenniges reports that Jan Drago is thrilled with the second round of numbers, which put her up by 20 points over Casey Corr.

Earlier this week, her campaign manager asked whether she should get Casey's phone number just in case Drago needed to call to congratulate him on election night. Drago replied: "No, it's going to be the other way around."

Then Amy asked: So, do you think he's going to call?

"Hell, no," Drago replied.

 

9:25 pm — 912 Currently Failing

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The 912 measure to rescind the gas tax funding crucial transportation and infrastructure projects around the state is currently failing by the slimmest of margins. The latest numbers, with some counties not reporting and some counties reporting partial results: Yes (rescind tax) 49.16%, No (retain tax) 50.84%.

One of the counties reporting only partial results is King, where the gas tax repeal is not expected to do well. So there's hope.

 

9:23 p.m. — Speaking of Monorail Wake

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This is what the anti-Monorail party looked like:

 

9:20 — More Monorail Wake

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Erica C. Barnett was also at the Monorail party, where she ran into Cindi Laws, sitting at the Trattoria Mitchelli bar and wearing a jaunty pink suit. Asked how she felt, Laws said she felt "bitter." She continued: "There's a vast anti-monorail conspiracy at the state, county, and city levels to bring down this project with Rovian-Atwater-Rush Limbaugh tactics." She sighed and said, "I've always been an idealist, an indomitable optimist... It will be hard to get that back."

And that was before the first numbers came out, showing the monorail going down 67% to 33%. There was no reaction in the room when the numbers came, Barnett reports. Everyone had already assumed the monorail was dead.

 

9:15 — Monorail Wake

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Party Crasher just called in from the Monorail party, where he says the situation is "wrist-slittingly bad." A lot of people preemptively wore black, he says, knowing that the tone would be funereal.

Then he went to the Conlin party, where he was greeted by "swanky" jazz music. (A. Birch Steen, also at the Conlin party, reported the jazz music as "excruciating.") Red curtains line the walls at the Conlin party, and they're serving roasted red peppers, Swedish meatballs, and offering a chocolate fondue fountain. (A. Birch Steen called the fountain "silly" and "smaller than the smallest one I just saw in Tahoe.") The whole thing looked like a swinger's party, Party Crasher said. ("Not like any swinger party I ever went to," A. Birch Steen said, "but I haven't been to one since the Rat Pack left Vegas for Palm Springs.")

 

9:10 pm — Jan Drago HQ

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Amy Jenniges reports from the Seattle Glassblowing Studio. There's a modest crowd, plenty of red wine, and a festive attitude. Drago is going between greeting people at the front door and scurrying into a back office to check the numbers.

There's an untouched cake with Drago's name on it:

Asked if she felt good about her current 60 percent figure, Drago leaned in and said, "Yes, that's verrrry good." Erin Thurston, Drago's campaign manager, was watching for a second drop. She said they're expecting the race to tighten up, but they think they've got it in the bag.

 

8:45 pm — Al Runte Party

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Place is Rock Salt on Westlake, a steak and seafood restaurant with a neon sign proclaiming "Seating Available."

Brendan Kiley reports:

The Runte party is subdued but with a sense of quiet anticipation. Around thirty people, 10 of them enthusiastic high school Dems and the rest over 30. Catering report: There are meatballs, raw veggies, stuffed mushrooms. Runte was drinking a martini (sorry, we know you’d love one, but we got no photo.) The few other drinkers were having beer. None of the older folks seem to like Runte as much as they hate Nickels, but for one gray-bearded man, who keeps saying, "Al is one of my only friends." Peter Steinbrueck stopped by: "Just making the rounds. Al is a good man, a principled man," he continued. "A lot of people wish he'd gotten into the race earlier. I wish he'd gotten into it earlier." I introduced myself to Al, saying I was from The Stranger, and was perhaps a persona non grata. "Not at all," he laughed, and shook my hand. "As long as you spell my name right." A few of the high school Dems cornered me: "What were you guys thinking when you endorsed Linda Averill? Why did you endorse the mayor? Can I tell you something? You don't look like a Stranger writer." I asked what a Stranger writer looked like, but we were interrupted by the gray-bearded man, who came to tell us that Al is one of his only friends.

 

8:40 — Dwight to Supporter: Fuck You

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Party Crasher just stopped at the Dwight Pelz party at Doc Maynard's, where the chicken wings were still crispy and delicious. ("Because no one's cried over them yet," opined one Party Bus passenger.)

When the first results came in, Pelz made a speech, noting that the tally is currently 53 to 47 percent against him. But, he said, he is "still in the race." Then he told the crowd there are "reasons to still feel good about this." (But he left those reasons unspecified.)

Then Pelz started to thank his supporters, got a bit teary, and in general sounded as if he was making a concession speech. Someone from crowd shouted, "Do it again."

Dwight shouted back: "Fuck you."

 

8:35 — Savage Love @ Nickels' Party

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Savage: I wish I could have voted for you
Nickels: So you still live on Vashon, then?
Savage: No, I live in the city now, and I voted for Runte.
Nickels: Well, you're in the minority.
Savage: (Snaps the following picture of Nickels' back as he turns away.)

 

8:30 p.m. — Sure, I'll have another...

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Savage is now at the Nickels bash, and can't take his eyes off the GIANT shrimp...

 

8:18 p.m. — Nickels Up, Monorail Down

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Mayor:

Nickels: 62 %
Runte: 37 %

Monorail:

YES: 33 %
NO: 67 %

 

8:17 pm — King County Reports

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The first batch of King County results are in. Conlin's up over Paige Miller (60/40), Drago's up over Casey Corr (60/40), Licata's pounding Bascomb (75/25), and McIver is edging past Pelz (53/47).

 

8:15 — Smoke 'em While You Still Can

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The first results are in on the Secretary of State's web page, and the smoking ban is up by a huge margin, 63 percent to 37 percent. People at the I-901 party are crediting eastern Washington voters for the strong early lead, and are telling Savage this theory makes sense, since most of I-901's bad press was in Western Washington.

 

8:10 pm — Update from Nickels HQ

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Amy Jenniges reports there's an awful light jazz band playing — it's like a desperate attempt to telegraph that Nickels supports the infamous "Seattle way."

People are slowly filling in. But the Nickels folks seem mysteriously unconcerned with the results — the Ivar's TV is mysteriously tuned to ESPN. How are they going to know when the first ballot drop happens?

 

8:08 p.m. — A Tense Wait for the Numbers

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At the I-901 party, Megan Sather checks the computer and sounds confident: "There's tremendous public support, but I like to wait until every last vote is counted."

 

8:05 pm — Live from Nickels HQ

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Josh Feit reports from the Nickels party at Ivar's on the waterfront: Four young guys are setting up orange and blue streamers (Ed. note: these are Liveslogger's alma mater colors.) A precocious West Seattle high school student named Travis Friedman, who was on the mayor's youth council, tells Feit about the difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. He is wearing a stylish Art Deco tie and ends every response with an honorary "sir."

When you walk in the front door, a sign on the door reads as follows:

Seems like a metaphor for Nickels's recent anti-nightlife policies, Feit says, from expanding the JAT and strip-club regulations to forcing preemptive Community Good Neighbor Agreements on bars.

 

8:00 p.m. — Party Crasher on the Party Bus

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Party Crasher has just picked up the Party Bus in front of the Mirabeau Room in Lower Queen Anne, which oddly was the home tonight of both Nick Licata's party and the Seattle Poetry Slam. Party Crasher is with two groups on the Greyhound-sized bus: Better Donkey and Music for America (which one of the Better Donkey people described as, "Kind of an incestuous group of political young people who like to drink").

No one is getting motion sickness yet, but the evening is still young. The driver, Jim from Renton, says: "This looks like it's going to be a fun night." Party Crasher says: Pranks are being planned. Next stop: Dwight Pelz's party, "before the party vibe dies."

 

7:45 p.m. — Savage Lights Up a Conversation With the Anti-Smoking Folks

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At Kells, an Irish Pub in the market that went non-smoking way back when all of Ireland went non-smoking, Dan Savage cornered Nick Federici, director of governmental relations for the American Lung Association of Washington, and asked him if he would have left the the problematic 25-foot rule out of I-901 if he had the initiative to do all over again. (The 25-foot rule, close readers of The Stranger will remember, is the reason we didn't endorse the initiative.) Federici replied: "Just because people don't like it, doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do."

And Dave Delvallee, vice president of government relations of the American Cancer Society, said: "I think we would do it again, it's good public health policy."

That's on the record. Off the record, Savage reports, a few people at the 901 party said they wished they'd left the problematic 25-foot rule out. But the true believers outnumbered the realists by 100 to 1.

Here's Savage shaking hands with Federici, after he told him that despite The Stranger's "no" endorsement, Savage himself voted for the smoking ban:

 

7:30 p.m. — Tipsy already...

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At the Alibi Room, where the Stranger Election Control Board began its evening...

 

TONIGHT — Live-Slogging the Election

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We've finally recovered from Primary Night, and just in time, since tonight the Stranger Election Control Board plans to clean itself up, don something approximating dress clothes, and dive back into the fancy world of political partying in honor of the General Election. We'll bring you the latest news from the field as results come in, hearts are broken, careers are made, and about ten Stranger staffers get progressively drunker watching it all go down. (Oh, and we'll bring our camera-phones again, so you can watch it all with us.)

Will former assistant professor Al Runte still be "breathing down the neck" of Mayor Greg Nickels when the night is over? Will anyone be able to stomach that visual if Casey Corr's finger food turns out to be as bad as it was on Primary Night? Will there be a repeat of this love-in? Or this one? Will the headline on this post turn out to be oddly prescient? Will the heart-attack egg rolls make another appearance, and if so, will Party Crasher get sick on the Party Bus? Will Ron Sims still be smiling? Will Amy Jenniges find a party that tops also-ran Robert Rosencrantz's wild, sexy bash? Will the monorail vote leave Erica C. Barnett, Dan Savage, and Josh Feit crying in their drinks?

Tune in starting at 7:30 p.m. for all the answers, delivered via the live-Slogging duo of Annie Wagner and Eli Sanders, who will be feigning an intense interest in city politics all evening. The first poll results come in at 8:15 p.m., the last at 11 p.m. Party on, citizens!