{"id":45919,"date":"2020-05-18T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/candidates-file-for-kent-auburn-congressional-legislative-seats\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:18:00","slug":"candidates-file-for-kent-auburn-congressional-legislative-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/candidates-file-for-kent-auburn-congressional-legislative-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates file for Kent, Auburn congressional, legislative seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a long list of candidates who filed for several legislative and congressional offices up for election this year that impact Kent and\/or Auburn voters.<\/p>\n<p>If there are more than two candidates for an office on the Aug. 4 primary ballot, the two with the most votes will move on to the Nov. 4 general election ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/info.kingcounty.gov\/kcelections\/Vote\/contests\/who-has-filed.aspx?eid=21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Candidates who filed last week<\/a> during the filing period with King County Elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congressional District 8, U.S. Representative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keith R. Swank (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>*Kim Schrier (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>James Mitchell (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Jensen (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Keith Arnold (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Dean Burkett (States No Party Preference)<\/p>\n<p>Dave Saulibio (Prefers Trump Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Corey Bailey (Prefers Independent Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congressional District 9, U.S. Representative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Adam Smith (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Doug Basler (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Besada (Prefers Libertarian Party)<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Campbell (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 11, State Senator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Bob Hasegawa (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 11, State Representative Pos. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Hackney (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>*Zack Hudgins (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Jay Stark (States No Party Preference)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 11, State Representative Pos. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Steve Bergquist (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Sean Atchison (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 30, State Representative Pos. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jamila Taylor (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Martin A. Moore (Prefers Ind Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hurst (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Janis Clark (Prefers GOP Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 30, State Representative Pos. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Greene (Prefers GOP Party)<\/p>\n<p>*Jesse Johnson (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Jack Walsh (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 31, State Representative Pos. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Drew Stokesbary (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Katie Young (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Zach Stover (States No Party Preference)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 31, State Representative Pos. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jerimy Kirschner (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Eric E. Robertson (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Thomas R Clark (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 33, State Representative Pos. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Tina L. Orwall (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 33, State Representative Pos. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marliza Melzer (Prefers Libertarian Party)<\/p>\n<p>*Mia Su-Ling Gregerson (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 47, State Representative Pos. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Debra Entenman (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Lyebyedyev (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative District 47, State Representative Pos. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Pat Sullivan (Prefers Democratic Party)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thompson Jr. (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Cimaomo, Jr. (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cooke (Prefers Republican Party)<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Incumbent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S., state representatives <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":45920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45919"}],"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=45919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45919"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}