{"id":18039,"date":"2013-12-04T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/democrats-nominate-kents-elizabeth-albertson-for-state-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:15:25","slug":"democrats-nominate-kents-elizabeth-albertson-for-state-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/democrats-nominate-kents-elizabeth-albertson-for-state-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats nominate Kent’s Elizabeth Albertson for state House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 33rd Legislative District Democrats nominated Kent City Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson Tuesday night to fill the state House seat being vacated by State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Albertson’s nomination will go before the Metropolitan King County Council for approval, possibly Jan. 6 or 13. Albertson decided not to seek a third four-year term<\/a> on the City Council in order to run for a state House seat. She would serve one year as a replacement and run for a full term in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Upthegrove is leaving the Legislature after his election in November to the District 5 seat on the County Council. He will replace Julia Patterson, who decided not to seek re-election, starting on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 33rd District covers parts of Kent, Des Moines, SeaTac, Normandy Park and Burien.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Precinct Committee Officers (83 voted) picked Albertson over SeaTac City Councilwoman Mia Gregorson and 33rd Democrat District Chair Omaha Sternberg. Sternberg said in an email that she was not a serious contender as she made it clear she supported Albertson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“I feel that Elizabeth was the stronger candidate with a more mature outlook on the future and a better prepared plan for the district,” Sternberg said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The County Council will consider all three names before making its pick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Albertson will serve at her final City Council meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The city will host a farewell for Albertson and outgoing Councilwoman Jamie Perry from 6-7 p.m. at City Hall before the meeting.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 33rd Legislative District Democrats nominated Kent City Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson Tuesday night to fill the state House seat being vacated by State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":18040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}