Kent Republican Bill Boyce will advance to the Nov. 8 general election for the 47th Legislative District Senate seat, but his Democratic opponent remains to be determined with Claudia Kauffman and Satwinder Kaur locked in a tight race.<\/p>\n
Boyce received 44.56% (7,380 votes) while Kauffman had 27.98% (4,633 votes) and Kaur 27.29% (4,519 votes), according to primary results released Aug. 2 by King County Elections. The two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election.<\/p>\n
Elections officials will release updated results weekdays through Aug. 16 when the results are finalized. The winner in November will replace Sen. Mona Das, D-Kent, who decided not to seek a second four-year term.<\/p>\n
The 47th District includes parts of Kent, Auburn and Covington.<\/p>\n
Boyce, president of the Kent City Council, has raised $243,723 and spent $195,739, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission website on July 29. His largest contributions are $43,853 and $42,000, each from the Senate Republican Campaign Committee. His largest expenditure is $95,059 on broadcast\/cable TV advertising, most of it to the Minnick Group, a Mason, Washington-based company that describes itself as a nonpartisan campaign consulting company.<\/p>\n
Kaur, also a Kent City Council member, has raised $118,374 and spent $91,339. Her largest contribution is $20,000 from the Washington Senate Democratic Campaign. Her largest expenditure is $20,942 on printing literature and fliers. She spent $12,750 on digital advertising with SeaTac-based WinPower Strategies, a Washington state progressive Democratic consulting firm, according to its website.<\/p>\n
Kauffman, who held the Senate seat from 2007 to 2010, has raised $47,318 and spent $24,712. Her largest contribution is $30,173 from individuals, including 19 of $1,000 each. Her largest expenditure is $8,425 on postage costs and mail permits. Much of that money went to Seattle-based Upper Left Strategies, a political consulting firm. Kauffman raised $385,729 when she ran for the same seat in 2010.<\/p>\n
Republicans have put lots of cash behind Boyce in an effort to regain the seat. Das defeated Joe Fain, R-Auburn, in 2018 with 50.79% of the vote. Fain defeated Kauffman in 2010 and held the position for eight years.<\/p>\n
The Seattle Times endorsed Boyce. Boyce served on the Kent School Board, prior to his election to the council.<\/p>\n
Boyce and 47th District House candidate Carmen Goers held an election night party at JP Taproom and Grill on the East Hill in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Democrats Claudia Kauffman, Satwinder Kaur in tight race for 2nd spot in general election <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":59274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59273","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\/59273"}],"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=59273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59273"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}