{"id":17048,"date":"2009-07-17T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/democrats-need-to-join-forces-in-king-county-executive-race\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T01:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:10:29","slug":"democrats-need-to-join-forces-in-king-county-executive-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/democrats-need-to-join-forces-in-king-county-executive-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats need to join forces in King County executive race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new KING 5 Poll shows that Susan Hutchison, the former news anchor, is still riding high on her massive name recognition advantage. It appears her notoriety and solid Republican base make Hutchison a near certainty to move past the top two primary Aug. 18th.<\/p>\n<p>This puts Democrats in a difficult position. With the recent initiative to make the office of King County Executive non-partisan, the race will be harder to frame as Democrat versus Republican \u2014 playing right into the hands of the well-known Hutchison.<\/p>\n<p>To hold on to this office, Democrats should be trying to unite behind a single candidate even now. The fight to cut into Hutchison\u2019s name-recognition dominance and boost from a solid conservative base cannot start early enough for Democrats. The newly non-partisan nature of the office necessitates haste.<\/p>\n<p>While numbers were previously muddled, the new poll shows that Dow Constantine is now a front-runner among Democrats. He has already proven himself a capable leader in a long career of public service and this new poll confirms his viability.<\/p>\n<p>Only through unifying can the Democratic majority of King County prevent a candidate out of step with their ideals from usurping a vital office.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nick Rosellini<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new KING 5 Poll shows that Susan Hutchison, the former news anchor, is still riding high on her massive name recognition advantage. It appears her notoriety and solid Republican base make Hutchison a near certainty to move past the top two primary Aug. 18th. This puts Democrats in a difficult position. With the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}