Auburn Democrat Chris Stearns won the Aug. 2 primary for the 47th Legislative District House Position 2 seat, but the outcome of which candidate will be his opponent in November remained too close to call.<\/p>\n
Stearns, an Auburn City Council member, received 36.01% (5,953 votes) to easily lead the race against four other candidates, according to results released Aug. 2 by King County Elections. Stearns will earn one of the two spots on the Nov. 8 ballot.<\/p>\n
The second candidate to advance will come from among Democrat Shukri Olow at 17.96% (2,969 votes); Republican Barry Knowles at 17.89% (2,958 votes); Republican Ted Cooke at 14.13% (2,336 votes) or Republican Carmen Goers at 13.88% (2,295 votes).<\/p>\n
Elections officials will release updated results weekdays through Aug. 16 when the results are finalized.<\/p>\n
The winner on the Nov. 8 ballot will replace state Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, who decided not to run again after 18 years in Olympia.<\/p>\n
The Republican Party put a lot of money behind Goers.<\/p>\n
Goers has raised $198,540 and spent $146,840, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission. Goers has received nearly $60,000 from the Olympia-based House Republican Organizational Committee. Her largest expenditures are more than $110,000 to the Minnick Group for Comcast cable TV advertising, streaming TV ads, digital ads and numerous mailers. Minnick Group is a Mason, Washington-based company (also used by Senate candidate Bill Boyce) that describes itself as a nonpartisan campaign consulting company.<\/p>\n
Knowles has raised $6,656 and spent $317.94. Cooke has raised $2,605 and spent $1,188.<\/p>\n
Olow has raised $87,682 and spent $61,701. Her largest expenses are $5,000 or less. Stearns has raised $62,792 and spent $39,914, with his largest expenditure $7,537 to Publisher’s Mailing Service in Seattle for mailers. Numerous $1,000 contributors are the largest donations to Olow and Stearns.<\/p>\n
The Seattle Times endorsed Goers.<\/p>\n
Entenman wins primary<\/strong><\/p>\n State Rep. Debra Enteman, D-Kent, received 56.28% (9,248 votes) in her bid for reelection to the 47th Legislative District House Position 1 seat.<\/p>\n Entenman will face Republican challenger Kyle Lyebyedyev on the Nov. 8 ballot. Lyebyedyev received 29.71% (4,883 votes) to earn the second spot and eliminate Republican Jessie Ramsey, who took third with 13.80% (2,267 votes).<\/p>\n Entenman defeated Lyebyedyev in 2020 and incumbent Mark Hargrove, R-Covington, in 2018.<\/p>\n Lyebyedyev has raised $62,661 and spent $33,120, with $20,000 from the House Republican Organizational Committee as the largest donation. His largest expenditure is $12,750 to Mercer Island-based Sermo Digitial for TV ads on several stations.<\/p>\n Entenman has raised $40,356 and spent $28,566, with $1,000 donations as the largest. Her largest expenditure is $5,555 to campaign manager Sai Samineni, of Kent. Ramsey has raised $765.<\/p>\n The Seattle Times endorsed Entenman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tight race for second spot; Entenman captures other House seat primary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":59284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59283","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\/59283"}],"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=59283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59283"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}