Kent residents will have several candidates to choose from in the 2012 state Legislature and Congressional races that cover parts of the city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Primary is Aug. 7 and the General Election Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent is served by Districts 33 and 47 in the Legislature and Districts 8 and 9 in Congress. Dave Upthegrove is running unopposed for State. Rep. Position 2 in District 33.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Candidates had to file for office the week of May 14-18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Election 2012 (Kent area)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Legislative District 33<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n State Rep. Position 1<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Will Benge (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tina Orwall (Prefers Democratic Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n State Rep. Position 2<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dave Upthegrove (Prefers Democratic Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Legislative District 47<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n State Rep. Position 1<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bud Sizemore (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mark Hargrove (Prefers Republican Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n State Rep., Position 2<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pat Sullivan (Prefers Democratic Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Andy Massagli (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 King County Sheriff<\/strong> (unexpired 1-year term, nonpartisan race)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Steve Strachan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n John Urquhart<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 United States Representative<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Congressional District No. 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Keith Swank (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dave Reichert (Prefers Republican Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Keith Arnold (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n James Windle (States No Party Preference)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Karen Porterfield (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ernest Huber (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 United States Representative<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Congressional District No. 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dave Christie (Prefers Fdr-Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Adam Smith (Prefers Democratic Party, incumbent)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tom Cramer (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jim Postma (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n John Orlinski (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kent residents will have several candidates to choose from in the 2012 state Legislature and Congressional races that cover parts of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835"}],"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=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}