no wonder the Chamber and Amazon are putting more money behind Wills than anyone else - she's a weak candidate who can't help herself in accepting graft.

Stranger, you're channeling your inner Fox News.

Yesterday a friend was walking to broadway market on the hill. Three Sawant organizers complete with fliers and tshirts were aggressively pursuing passerbys and when they encountered my friend he quickly said "I don't live in this district". Their response: "Well, fuck you then."

Not kidding. Not paraphrasing. This is what they said. And this isn't the first I've heard of behavior like this. I get the enthusiasm and energy of these supporters, but they've been downright thuggish in their approach lately. I have to wonder if these people are from even from the area, because they don't seem to have a clue how people operate around here.

@2 huh? Wills is a two-time loser.

How pathological can you get? It’s less than two weeks until the ballots will be counted, and she just compulsively engages in corruption so blatant, anyone with an internet connection and five minutes of time to spare could have discovered it. Why screw the pooch this close to the big day?

Mafia-ties Heidi just can not help herself.

Right now, no proof. Just allegations.

Remember: Strauss also having problems filing timely reports. Same Strauss who wanted a CASE endorsement to get that Amazonian cash.

@10 I heard some people in a hipster coffee shop talking about doing this to people. The hipsters also discussed flying members of ms13 in to town to vote socialist even though they're not registered because that's a totally plausible scenario

Cute white liberal chick - all she had to do was stand there and she'd get elected in this town. But nooooooo

Whatever, it happened. Was loud enough it got the attention of everybody around us, probably 10-11 people.

More to the point, it doesn't beggar belief. The level of arrogance coming from her campaign is staggering. Must be why she can't be bothered with any of the local constituent issues she might be able to do something about.

@8 Seriously. If people are going to throw stones, dig into Dan’s filings and you’ll notice a whole bunch of amendments the day before the complaint was filed.

A whole lotta nothing. It was a Tuesday night event with cheese and crackers that lasted about an hour—not a Saturday night soirée with a sit down dinner. Additionally, the venue was clearly available—which means it had zero value since it hadn’t been rented. Looks like Heidi would have been in trouble for not filing the estimate on time —not for correcting the amounts later. Seriously trying to smear Heidi over nothing.

We're not talking about journalism here. We're talking about a well-meaning and bright team of folks doing PR for a candidate.

Man y'all defending this deserve Trump.

Everyone be sure to use the email address in @18's post to sign them up for every possible spam list.

Cruikshank worked for McGinn. Tell you enough? Plus he writes for the greenspace-golf course destroying advocacy group the Urbanist, a group of wannabe socialists who think they can gain credibility by calling themselves something they’re not, and who would like to destroy Seattle as it is, or at massively transform it into a homeless haven where everything is paid by taxpayers.

Robert Cruickshank? Didn’t he work at the Mayors Office under McGinn?

@23: The jutting chin and power pose on his Twitter profile speak volumes. And those fucking sideburns!

She deserved to go to jail following her last stint on the council and would have done in many other democratic countries

“...that it's "food & beverage minimums”

Editor, that’s “its” in this case.

Wow, a whole lot of speculation and nothing here. The references to Strippergate (and poster's references to the mafia) are annoying ignorant. The issue involved a small piece of property zoned single family but too small to actually build on. A rezone to allow its use as a parking lot for the adjacent club would have been routine but for it being a strip club. Wills along with two other council members, Compton and NiCastro, accepted a total of $36,000 in campaign contributions. The money came from a number of the club's employees to disguise the source. All three council members returned the money when the source and the laundering was discovered. The Stranger gets oddly puritanical about a strip club considering it got its start running ads for escorts.